The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-07-15
Men Who Accept Places to Get
Transportation
BUREAU is VALUABLE.
Kansas Roads Draw Heavily
Upon State Agencies.
Many Workmen Are Now Being
Sent to Colorado.


The free employment agencies estab-
lished BY the last legislature have turn
ed out to be about the best thing that
the state has done for the railways for
a long time.
The employment agencies save the
railways = great deal Of money by
making them independent OF the cid
private employment agencies. It en-
ahles the railways to get into connec-
ton with a large number Of men quick
~ and thus move men from one part
of the state to another, where they are
most needed, or move them from KAN
sas TO other states
Within a couple OF weeks, the Topeka
Tree employment agency has sent eighty
men to Colorado to work for the Santa
Fe railway, and forty more TO central
Kansas 20 work for the Rock Island
a gang OF ten men, collected by the
employment agency. left on the noon
train, Rock Island, today. a hundred
more men are wanted by the Rock ISL
and at once. and the order is being fill
ed by the Topeka office as rapidly as
possible.
It is likely that the Santa Fe VIII
place an order for more men for work
in Colorado within short time.
The employment agency has a black
list, furnished by railway companies,
of all men who Jump their jobs when
taken by the railway to some distant
place to work The railways say that
this sort OF a list is necessary to pre-
vent in some measure constant i'm
position on the agency and the COM
panies. Some men deliberately plan
to enlist in a railway gang for the sake
Of getting a long free ride on the cars
Arriving at their destination, they take
unceremonfous leave of the gang Such
men are black listed. and their names
sent to the free employment agencies
to prevent repetition of the offense.
The Topeka office has q blacklist with
ten names on it. Three are the names
rf IN n
Springs, and who left as soon as they
arrived there.
The employment agency has also been
notified that the railway companies viii
in the near future take no men under
= years of age. Usually men younger
than this are not strong enough for the
work. and besides. minors frequently
run away to join the grading gangs.
and make trouble for their parents, and
incidentally for the railroad.
Aside from railroad business. and
sending men to the Kansas wheat fields,
it must be admitted that the Topeka
free employment agency is not. SO far,
q very glirtering success. Very few
applications for higher class jobs have
been received and still fewer appiIca-
tions for higher class help
Hired girls, which ought to be
staple article for an employment
agency, are ..alI out" There have been
almost no applications for this class Of
work. or from people who want
servants
1Iaefe are on lie with the agent sew
eral applications for positions as
stencgra piers, clerks. etc. and the ap-
plicanfs do not ask high wages either.
But their services are not much in de-
mand. People appear to forget the free
employment agency when looking for
help.
Agent Sherm Williams says that peo-
pie are getting a wrong idea about the
objects Of the free employment agency.
He says We are not engaged in the
exclusive business Of handling common
labor. We have some good chances
for people to engage other kinds ofhelp.
1t would pay anyone who has a vacant
job to give the free employment agency