The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-18
WOE IN TEACHERS AGENCIES.
ALL SCOOPED IN BY HEATING
UNDER LICENSE Law.
Some Yield. Some Fight, Some Drop Tutors
and Governesscs-<1assincat WIN
Domestic Help Point They KICK Az
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Domestic Help Point They Kick Az
ALI Job Finders Corralled NOW.
The latest concernto como under the
jurisdiction OF Commisso Keating's license
department or else greatly limit the scope
OF their business are the teachers agenoieH
There are Ave or six large and well known
ones In the city and they don't believe
that the new license law was framed for
them any more than they think 1t was meant
for the clerical agency and choir exchange
which Ia now doing business under q license
The new law, which regulates the keep
ing Of employment agencies In the cities
OF the first and second class where fees
are charged for procuring employment
or situations, specifically excerpts agencies
which procure employment for school
teachers exclusively. The trouble Is that
most OF the big agencies derive consid-
cradle part OF their income from supply
ing tutors, governesses, school matrons
and other educational workers who are not
school teachers. The agencies don't ap-
prove Of the distinction made. They say
that many school teachers act as tutors
even while teaching school Several Of
them, however, are willing to drop this SIDE
from the law.
The chief objection that the teachers
agencies have to the new law Is that, IN
their opinion, 1t is an unconstitutional inter-
ference with their private Affairs. Teachere,
they declare, are not heplesa class which
needs protection. For the most part the
applicants for positions are college gradu-
ates and are intelligent enough not to re-
quire law to save them from being over
charged
supporter of the new law said yester-
day that abuses in the teaching agencies,
although not known to the general pubic,
exist none the less The applicants, he
pointed out, are generally out OF employ
ture make them reticent when they are
overcharged or otherwise i'll treated
In answer to this, the manager OF one OF
the best known agencies said yesterday
ers' who have positions and are able to keep
them. but enroll In the agency on the chance
Of picking up a better job. As regards
overcharging the more reputable teachers
agencies send out specific. contract TO
every applicant before the applicant has paid
his registration fee, so that there may
be no Misunderstanding.
Not the least Objectionable feature OF the
new law, according to the teachers agencies,
is the placing of their business in the same
The law speaks Of "hostlers, cooks, walters;
scrub women, laundresses, maids and all
domestics and servants. The managers OF
the agencies say that their patrons are
likely to feel insulted at being placed in
the same class. There has been a stigma
attached to employment agencies they
say. which the Legislature was not justified
in attaching to teachers' agencies.
Supporters of the law hardly believe
that the average teacher In search OF a
Job will worry much about the details Of
the law under which the agencies are en-
rolled.
The manager OF one big agency has en-
ployed counsel to determine his rights
and the validity OF the law as it relates
to teachers agencies may be tested. Sew
eral OF the most important agencies have
taken out licenses rather than fight, one
has given up the placing Of tutors and
governesses and several are undecided
as to what to do
Commissioner Heating believes that all
the agencies will in time find it to their
advantage to take out licenses. In case
they all come under the law, the less reput-
able concerns will be driven out Of bust
ness He also points out that the cost OF
q license is merely nominal.
Besides the teachers agencies and the
Clerical Exchange, the business position
agencies have had to come under the law.
These concerns have sprung up during the
last few years: they secure business posi-
tons, for the most part for recent college
graduates Most OF these concerns have
taken out licenses.