The Sunday globe., 1901-06-16

yesterday in that employment office
matter and l thought maybe you
would like some explanation from my
side"
Certainly; you are Mr., Wyndham
SO f n. w. are you not?"
"Yes, that's my name and number
well Mr. Wyndham, The Globe
didn't state that you were arrested on
a warrant issued by Prosecutor Null
lowney for petit larceny
mo; you didn't say that, and I'm
mighty glad of it,
But you were?
yes"
so you see already, don't you, that
the Globe might have made 1T hotter
for your"
But the prosecutor discharged me
as there was no case. You see, it was
like this;
"A man named Jones gave me 80
! registration fee and he claimed that |
! promised to get him a job or refund
the money. Now we never refund reg.
! istration fees, and we never promise
| anybody a situation. Sometimes
when / get the option on a situation
| / can sell the job to a man for as high
as 500 | got Si3 from one man whom
! l secured a position for of $50 per
month. That is to say, he gave me SO
registration fee, $40 cash for the ex-
elusive right to the position and five
| per cent on his first months salary.
| He is in the position yet
How do you get these OptiOns?'
"Why, you or anybody else leave an
| order with me for a special position
and | agree to furnish you the man
free Of charge. Now, if l have such
a man on my books | send him to you,
| seer"
Yes, but suppose you have more
| than One-may be a do8en?'
We'll, only one can get the job the
others have to wait till l see if the
first man suits. If he does not,
send another until you get the right
man
Meantime you sell the job to each
man.
II refund the money if he is back in
| forty-eight hours, all except the reg
| istration fee. You see, I've got to
make a living; / have worked this
| thing up in connection with my COM
mercial business, which | want to ad-
yertise in the Globe, as soon as l have
things ready, and if a man chooses to
pay me So registration fee and five
per cent on his first months salary,
it is a fair bargain and nobody Is
| cheated"
but how about those for whom
you fail to find employment"
"Oh-well they loose their registra-
tion fee. Here is the clause in the
! agreement they sign, which let's me
out on that:
THAT the registration fee is to cover
| the expense of Employment Exchange
| i'm the preliminary work Of registering
me, and advertising, and postage, and
| whatever other expenses may be in
| Cured by the Employment Exchange,
| and is to be no part ,of the commits
/ sion that may be due the Employment
! Exchange from me, and shall not be,
and is not construed by me, as a guar
antee or assurance of a position, as
/ it is expressly understood by me that
the Employment Exchange does not
/ guarantee any position
And the next clause says:
THAT the Employment Exchange
acts simply as an introducing medium
to send me to such places or open.
ings, or to seni me notices of such
/ places or openings as the Employment
Exchange may hear of directly or in,
directly, and which are suitable to me,
and which, in the judgment Of the En-.
ployment Exchange, may seem eXpe-
dient and advisable
" h there not possibility, MrWynd.
ham, that your clients misunderstood
you, and when they register they are
under the impression that you will fur
nish them a situation for the 81 or SO ?
81 can't help that You know
keep EN- on my books for two months
There are clerks in these Offices who
sometimes exceed their instructions
and leave an applicant under the i'm.
preston that job will be given them
Cor the registration fee. Indeed, | un
derstand that some of the employment
exchanges promise to do So but the
one | run does not.
How did Prosecutor MullowDey dis
pose of your caSe?'
He dismissed nae as there was moth
ing in it,"
"Why did he issue a warrant"
Il suppose on the misrepresenta
tons Of this man jones'
Then you wish the Globe to under
stand and to pHhlish the fact that you
do not guarantee a position to any
person for the registration fee of 50?
"Yes, sir; that is it il you please
and after a while | will be advertising
some IF my commercial business In
the Globe"
I,g
scious that this is Just precisely what
the Globe article accused him Of
taking a fee Of 81 or SO and feeding
the applicant on hope deferred.
This employment Office fake busi
ness Is simply an enterprise whege a
man or a woman out of employment
and over anxious to find work falls an
easy vistim to the glib tongues and
elaborate printed blanks gotten up by
the men who run these establishments
Mr.. Wyndham's blanks and agree
ments are very mgeniously drafted
but the trouble with such schemes i
that the law nowhere gives them
power or authority to make bylaws, a:
IL were, of their owner to catch the
dollars Of the unsophisticated and ig
noraAt. Hence the Globe is a little
bit astonished that Prosecutor Mullow
ney, who knows a criminal libel when
he sees one, shohd in the first place
issue his warrantfor the arrest Of Mr.
Wyndham for petit larceny and wher
the prosecuting witness appeared tc
testify, dismissed the case without a
hearing in open court before His Hon
or Justice Scott
Here is what Mr.. Jones, whom we
hunted up until we found him. says
about IL:
Eyes, sir; I gave Wyndham 81 for
the name Of the party who wanted the
man. He was real estate agent.
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