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man so that we can have full and continuing employment in
our state for those who want to work and for those
who are prepared to work.
We should know that more and more men of
fifty, men of fifty-five, men of sixty, who are physically
able, are being sent to pasture because there is no room
within our state employment system for them to work,
and, of course, with our young people emerging into the
mainstream there is chronically high and disproportionate
unemployment so that a national economy has pointed
out that despite some undulations — The papers were full
this morning of a decrease in the national unemployment
rate from August, but then it seesaws up and down.
We must face the fact that full time unemploy-
ment in our nation rose from 2.9 per cent of the civilian
labor force in 1953 to 5.3 per cent during the first
half of 1964, and not only are men idle, but physical
resources are idle, and there is what economists call a
production gap, the difference between actual production
and maximum production which rose from an estimated
three-tenths per cent of maximum production in 1953 to