Mohave County miner., 1906-08-11
Hunting a Job In the City.


different thing from in a country
town. A man hunting work can call
on every employer in few hours in
any town where he would be likely to.
find work; he would tramp the streets
of great city for weeks without find
ing position, while there might be
dozens of places waiting for him if he
could locate them. There are two.
things for him to do. One is to adver-
tise, the other is to go to an employ
ment agency.
These agencies do a big business,
most of them on the square, but many
young fellow has been feeced out of
all he brought with him from the
country, under the promise of work by
an agency. This ruse is worked: A
man wishes to fill a certain position,
say as fireman. A dozen men apply,
each paying a fee of from two to five
dollars, but only one man gets the job
if there is any job to get.
business of finding positions for men
and boys. The associations in New
York City alone found work for twen-
ty eight hundred last year. The Bos-
ton Association filled l,s25 places, Chi
cago Sl2, Cleveland l,03S. The total
salaries of the men throughout the
country for whom the associations
found positions last year amounted to
1850, COOS, computed on their first
weeks pay, which time and again
has been doubled. Every man pays
a small fee.
No young man gets place through
the association as an act of charity.
He gets it on his ability alone. The
irresponsible, shiftless, lazy, drunken
fellow soon finds that the association
employment department has nothing
for him. He has got to stand on his
own feet and face his business record
to get business position. Every rec
ord is looked up. The 23rd Street
branch, New York City, met and sift-
ed the character of over four thousand
men and boys last year. The employ
ment secretary often meets hundred
applicants day. He finds out why a
young man left his last place; COUNCILS
with him and helps him at the most
trying time of life, with experience
gained from daily contact with the
city's business life. He knows what
business men require and the rocks on
which young men go to smash. Bust
ness men are dealt with squarely and
the applicant for employment fairly.
It is not unusual that a young fellow
who has registered and is called upon
to write his record, fails to show up
again. The five hundred to one thous-
and men in an associations education
al classes, who have developed larger
capacity, find no difficulty in getting
places.
Country bred young men are always
in demand. One large employer was
asked the reason why he always asked
for Young men from the country. He
said: "They like to work better and
are in earnest. They are of cleaner
blood. Boarding in the town and pay
ing their full expenses makes them
hustle. They are young, of better
habits. They do not always look at
the clock. They stick to the job long
er and work harder"
Boys find that it does not pay to de-
ceive, as one did who registered in his
brothers name, when investigation
showed the fraud. One member who
was discharged from department
store for refusing to call domestic
goods imported" was surprised when
he was asked to take a responsible po-
sition in bank in a suburban city.
The head of the department house was
director of the bank, and when
asked for a man of integrity nomina-
ted him, saving 81 know your man."