Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-29
A BIG EMPLOYMENT AGENCY

a Blu EMFLO WEN A1ENS1
Through the new department of the
bureau, practical efforts
will be made to supply those needing
help with laborers and those needing
labor with jobs. Commissioner Pow.
derby has taken this matter up di-
rectly with the department of agri-
culture and labor in the various
states, and is meeting with good re.
suits. In North Dakota the work has
been taken up with Commissioner
Gilbreath of the state department
and he is supplied with blanks upon
which those needing laborers OF
whatever class can apply for them
Mr.. Gilbreath will work in harmony
with the government department., and
will receive applications and furnish
blanks to people in this state who
may have need of help of any kind
A recent article regarding the work
of this new department says:
If you need a farmland,
cook, a housemaid or 100 sturdy
men to work on railroad con-
struction, drop a line to Uncle
Sans new employment bureau
in Washington-it's the biggest
in the world and ought to meet
the demand.
Terence v. Powderly is at the
head of the wonderful agency
his title is chief of the division of
information of the bureau of i'm
migration. Not long since he
made a report of the work al
ready accomplished since the or
ganization of the division in
July.
Already, he stated, information
had been gathered showing that
places in various parts of the
country can be provided for 1885,
~ 400 aliens-men women and chill
dren-when admitted. They will
be able to command wages rang
ing from S. a week to $3.50 a
day. Individual employers have
made requests which will permit
the placing Immediately of ,395
workers..
This is only the beginning
When the machinery gets work
ing under full head of steam,
it is expected to place employers
seeking labor and labor seeking
employment in immediate touch.
and to supply the demands for
both wherever they may exist.
Not only for the benefit of i'm
migrants wishing employment,
but for the rank and file of native
positionseekers as we'll, is the big
agency to be conducted It's help
full mission wilr extend from the
lakes to the gulf, from ocean to
ocean.
This employment bureau of
Uncle Sans has-or is expected
to have-a yearly clientele of,
well, say million. That sounds
exaggerated, but, as matter of
fact, it is conservative estimate.
Last year there were ,2S5,349
| immigrants admitted to the Uni
ted States. At Least a million of
these, it is believed, were looking
for employment. The figures
this year are not likely to show
any decrease, nor next. nor the
year after that.
Add to this million of aliens
as many of the eighty odd mil
lions of the existing population
as may desire his services, and il
is easy to see that Mr.. Powderly
is without exaggeration running
the greatest employment agency
in the world.
By cooperation with state depa
ments the work is made systema
and practical. Commissioner
breath is seeking to cooperate
J every way with the government
partment and will assist in solvi
the, question of what to do with j
migrants who want places to work.
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j A testimony of the improvement
: financial conditions is found in /
Z. fact that when the limit of time 81,