Give a Man a Job - 1933

[camprunamok]

This film was produced by Hollywood actors, directors and producers and distributed nationally to movie houses as a lead-in to feature movies.

Who are the other actors in the audience here aside from Moe Howard?

[BigBallinStalin]

Puts soviet propaganda to shame.

[heavyboxes]

Jimmy Durante is completely hilarious. He's like a real-life cartoon.

[Snafubar23]

If you greedy Americans want your jobs back you just have to stop thinking you deserve more than any foreign worker does. Free markets will fix that. Keep insisting on more than $5 an hour, unfair, job-killing socialist bullshit like pollution control, worker safety, employer-paid healthcare, overtime pay, minimum wage, sick days, vacations, child labor laws, property taxes for commercial and industrially zoned land, food inspection and pharmaceutical testing and see what you get.

[maximalyst0292]

Give a man a job! You'll have an even harder time turning a profit and paying all of your newly hired workers, but you'll figure it out somehow!

[t00nces2]

I love the way he refuses the cigar offered by the banker but then snatches the rest of the mans cigars from his pocket.

[dynamitemike65]

That's just freakin' scary. Nice to see FDR wasn't afraid to push his bully agenda on EVERYONE. Not a mention of lowering taxes or getting rid of the ridicuolus regulations like price controls. Just give a man a job oh sure I' m gonna tax the hell out of you if you make a profit but give a man a job.

[STEVYRAYYRAY]

the only thing this propaganda is missing is larry moe and curly

[CrossTownDrummer]

@STEVYRAYYRAY Moe is actually in this - he's the exterminator!! Hard to recognize him, since he's got his hair slicked back.

[RothdeMan]

Ahhh...the art of FDR Propaganda via Hollywood.

[Pengo115]

And all in one take!!

[corncornrocks]

YOU AND YOU AND YOU AND YOU

[YeOldeTune]

Lovely Moe Howard!

[migs404]

Great little skit by Durante. The message was so simple back then. Too bad the message of employers hiring new people is completely irrelevant in 2009.

[Asahamana]

@migs404

No, no more people, that's how it was done back then.

[GodsWildfire]

@migs404 -- Most businesses can't afford to hire new employees because of the economy.

[charmed822]

what are the lyrics to the song he is singing?

is there the entire lyrics?

i cant really here what he is singing.

[PersonalJesus348]

get behind the president

and give a man a job. Got it?

[AdamSheets18]

Is that Burgess Meredith?

[algebrafour]

It is Jimmy Durante

[dejahthoris]

I wish the current media could see this. They seem fixated on trivialities at a time when we need to pull together to survive!

[tubette1]

awesome!

[fuzzybeard2016]

Very timely! I guess that the Bible verse "There is nothing new under the sun" is true!

[Ginyu]

Was a good principle when there was more jobs than people,but now with technology and more people..theres more people than jobs..

[thereddog223]

How so?

[strabes88]

@Ginyu The idea that technology causes unemployment is one of the oldest economic myths: cato [dot org] /pubs/pas/pa068.html

[InuitInua]

Amusing video. Thank you for the upload.

[TomSmithMusic]

What goes around, comes around I guess.

[smerdley]

The second man that Jimmy Durante talks to in the audience was none other that Moe Howard, of The Three Stooges!

: )

[MalleableTruth]

A solid economic plan.