Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06

publication.
Approved May IA, 1901
No. Is, 81 Published May IS, 1901.
CHAPTER APO.
AN ACT to create free employment offices
in certain cities, regulating the same,
providing for the appointment of a super
inte1dent, fixing his salary, licensing prl-
yate employment agencies, fixing penalties
for violation of its provision and making
appropriation therefor
The people of the State of Wisconsin rep
resented in senate and assembly do enact
as follows
Section 1. A free employment office is
hereby created in each city of a population
of thirty thousand or over according to the
last state or national census; for the pur-
pose Of receiving applications of persons
seeking employment, and applications of
persons seeking to employ labor. Such of
fee shall be designated and known as Wis
consin free employment office.
Section 2. Within thirty days after this
act shall have been in force, the commits
sioner of the bureau of labor and indus
trial statistics shall recommend, and the
governor, shall appoint q superintendent
for each of lAe offices created by section
one of this act, and who shall devote their
entire time to the duties of their respective
offices The tenure of such appointment
shall be two years, unless sooner removed
for cause. The salary of each superintend-
ent shall be twelve hundred dollars per
annum, which sum, together with the
sary costs of equipping and maintaining
the respective offices, rent for such offices
not to exceed FIVE hundred dollars per an
mum, shall be paid out of any funds IN the
state treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Section 8. The superintendent Of each
such free employment office shall, within
sixty days after appointment, open an Of
flee In such locality as shall have been
agreed upon between such superintendent
and the commissioner of the bureau Of la
Dor and industrial statistics as being most
appropriate for the purpose intended; pro-
vided that said employment office shall be
occupied in conjunction with the bureau of
labor and Industrial statistics when such
bureau has an Office in any Of said cities,
and in case said bureau has no Office in any
of said Cities then and In that case the city
council wherein said free employment Of
fee Is established shall furnish and equip
an Office for said employment bureau, either
in conjunction with department Of said
city or separately without cost to the state,
such office to be provided with a sufficient
number of rooms or apartments to enable
him to provide, and he shall so provide, a
separate room or apartment for the use Of
women registering for situations or help.
Upon the outside of each such office, in
position and manner to secure the fullest
public attention, shall be placed a sign
which shall read In the English language
wisconsin Free Employment OMce," and
the same shall appear either upon the out
side windows or upon signs in such other
languages as the location Of such office shall
render advisable. The superintendent Of
each such free employment office shall re-
ceive and record In books kept for that
purpose names Of all persons applying for
employment or help, designating opposite
the name and address Of each applicant
the character of employment or help de-
sired. Separate registers for applicants for
employment shall be kept, showing the age,
sex, nativity, trade or occupation of each
applicant, the cause and duration of non
employment, whether married or single, the
number Of dependent children, together
with such other facts as may be required
by the bureau Of labor and industrial sta
tistics to be used by said bureau: Pro
vided, that no such special registers shall
be open to public inspection at any time,
and that such statistical and sociological
data as the bureau Of labor may require
shall be held in confidence by said bureau,
and so published as not to reveal the
identity Of any applicant. And, provided,
further, that any applicant who shall de-
cline to answer the questions contained in
special register shall not thereby forfeit
any right to any employment the office
might secure.
Section a. Each superintendent shall re-
port on Thursday of each week to the state
bureau Of labor and Industrial statistics the
number of applications Tor positions and
for help received during the preceding
week, also those untitled applications re-
naming on the books at the beginning of
the week. Such lists shall not contain the
names or addresses Of any applicant, but
sired anu the number Of persons wanted at
each specified trade or occupation. 1t shall
also show the number and character of the
positions secured during the preceding
week. Upon receipt of these lists, and not
later than Saturday Of each week, the COM
missioner Of the said bureau of labor and
Industrial statistics shall cause to be print
ed a sheet showing separately and In COM
bination the lists received from all such
free employment offices; and he shall cause
q sufficient number Of such sheets to be
printed to enable him to mail, and he shall
so mail, on Saturday OF each week, two of
said sheets to each superintendent of a
free employment office one to be filed by
said superintendent and one to be conspic-
uously posted in each such office. A copy
of such sheet shall also be mailed on each
Saturday by the commissioner of the state
bureau Of labor and industrial statistics to
the state inspector of factories. 1t Is here
by made the duty of said factory Inspector
to do all he reasonably can to assist In Sc
curing situations for such applicants for
work, to secure for the free employment
Offices the cooperation Of the employers or
labor in factories, to Immediately notify
the superintendent of free employment Of
fees of any and all vacancies or opportuni-
ties of employment that shall cone to his
notice.
Section s. It shall be the duty of each
such superintendent of a free employment
office to Immediately put himself In com
munication with the principal manufac-
turers, merchants and other employers Of
labor, and to use all diligence in securing
the cooperation Of the said employers of
labor, with the purposes and objects Of
such employment offices
Section g. 1t shall be the duty Of each
such superintendent to make report to
me state bureau Of labor and Industrial
statistics annually, not later than Deem
Der first of each year, concerning the work
of his office for the year ending October
first of same year, together with state
ment of the expenses of the same and such
reports shall be published by the said bu-
reau of labor and Industrial statistics an
nually. Each such superintendent shall
lection of statistics Of labor, as the COM
missioner of the bureau of labor and Indus
trial statistics may require.
Section Z. No fee or compensation shall
be charged or received. directly or lndl-