The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1901-01-05

A correspondent to the News Tribune
asks eight questions relative to the OBJ
jects and advantages of the free labor
bureau, should it be established in Du-
luth.
His first question Isl Does the bureau
propose to perfect itself in time and do
away with private offices.
Answer: Yes
1t is the idea of the advocates of the
bureau, if those created in the larger
municipalities of the state prove a sue
cess. to establish a state labor employ
ment bureau, with branch offices in
every city and town in the state. The
bureau will be under the supervision of
the commissioner of labor, and the in
tention is to abolish every employment
office in the state.
,. Does it intend to compete for out
side business?
Answer: Yes.
1t will send men or women to any
place in or out of the state. wherever
the bureau can secure employment for
them.
3. Can 1t guarantee patrons against
loss CT fare in case of no work?
and when the bureau becomes a state
| institution it will protect every person
| that it sends out. 1t will be an easy
thing for the city to pass law MAX
| ing ii msdemeanor for any person
! to fraudulently place an order for men
| that he does not need. If any person
makes such application, let him be liza
| BILE. We might say in passing, that it
| makes little difference what kind OF
! bureau we have for it will be very poor
! indeed if it cannot surpass the present
private agencies. How many poor and
| helpless men have been fraudulently
dealt with by many employment
agencies in the past? Do the agencies
now guarantee patrons against loss of
| fare? There are but very few that
even give back the fee the men pay for
a chance to work. How many of them
have agreements with foremen, to hire
men from time to time, get fee from
| them, keep them for short time and
then when another lot of men come in,
the former are discharged and the new
lot employed. This is again repeated
in short time and SO on: Every man
who pays his fee is perhaps given
chance to work for short period, for
mere excuse. The fees that are secur-
ed is divided equally between the agent
and the foreman.
4. Outside of the fee, would it be Of
any extra benefit to labor?
Answer: Yes.
1t would guarantee them safe and
reliable bureau of employment. 1t
would prevent them from being fleeced
by INSCRIPTIONS employment agents.
s.. Would man feel the same going
to free employment bureau as into a
free soup house? ,z= ~ p
Answer: No. Not for one minute.
There is a good deal of difference pe-
tween free soup and free job; although
our present employment agencies have
driven many able bodied and willing
men to free soup houses. Do the in
habitants of Minnesota Point feel the
same about riding on free ferry as
they would about going to a free soup
house? There are some things men are
entitled to in this world without cost
and one Of them is an opportunity tc
work.
6. Would employers take advantage
of it who do not patronize those tha
now exist?
Answer: No one can fOretell that
1t will depend entirely upon the class o.
men that the bureau will send out.
I. Would it affect the wages paid ii
=, this district:
Answer: no.
= s. Would it influence labor conditions
: here as to number of men?
~ Answer: No.
:, The last two questions are not yer.
- vital. that is when they relate to tn
6 success of the bureau. The law Of sup
ply and demand will always regulat
the wages of labor, and influence labo
conditions as to number of men. excep
- where organizations of labor exist.
. 1t is our belief that free employ
:. ment bureau. rightly organized an
= conducted, will be of considerable ser
. | vice to labor.
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