REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES. DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter Ihr y ME, NARA Date 24981 in wrben enterpriseb. ruoae latter include artesans, industrial workers and professional loafers. The sort of the laat two categories has, through the present economio crisis, become a difficult one although, due to tho standard of living and climate of josta niea, their suffering is not as great as might be the case in other countries.
Fox political reasons, the condition of these 75, 000 persons who are capable of becoming unemployed, although the desti tuto jobless probably do not exceed 4, 000 today, has been featured unduly in the Legialaturo, with accompanyina presa publicity. B11 No. 39 was passed by the Congress on July 5, 1932 (see attached copy from LA OACETA. DLALIO OFICIAL NO, 155 of July 14, 1932. Adai tional funds for the occupa tion of the unemployed would have been obtained theroby from increacos in the Identity Tax based on Inoce (vide despatch No. 681 of November 10, 1931 et segl. frou a per cent tex gold currency deposits, inland and abroad, of individuals and corporations, and frame a mineral water excise tax.
President Jiménez va toad this bill on the 13th of July 1932, giving as his reasons that the sources from which the money was to be obtained would be insufficient to meet unemploynent demands and that moreover, the setting aaide of funds for public worka schemes would tax beyond the limit an already overburdened fiscal system.
since the Presidential voto, the unemployed of