Significant Women

Toledo's public-spirited John David Biggers last week resigned his job as administrator of the U. S. Unemployment Census, resumed his job as president of big Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. (flat glass). To his friend Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Biggers left many a fact & figure underlining the extent and the why of unemployment. In a letter announcing that the census was complete, he wrote: "The most significant fact ... is that 2,740,000 more persons have entered the labor market since 1930 than were to have been expected from past experience. This entire increase is made up of women workers. . ." On the labor market when Mr. Biggers surveyed it last November were 39,978,000 males, 14,496,000 females between 15 and 74. Of these, approximately 7,845,016 who registered were "available for employment." (Latest conservative estimate of unemployed: 10,500,000.) Two and three-quarter million women who in depression clung to jobs rather than husbands were a surprise that made the problem so much worse.

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