The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-10-10
LABOR SUPPLY MOVE
Uncle Sam Starts Biggest En-
plOyment Bureau to Help Out.
NO EXCUSE FOR IDLENESS.

The greatest employment bureau In
the world is what the new information
bureau of the immigration service is
suddenly becoming. writes Washing
ton correspondent Of the New York
Globe. Terence V. Powderly, once
head Of the knights of Labor, Is in
charge of the bureau, and after open
ing correspondence with the RESPONSE
BILE officers of all the states concerning
the actual conditions with reference to
need for labor and opportunity for EN-
ployment this is what he says:
mo man in this country able and
willing to work has any excuse for
idleness. There is demand from prac-
tically every state for labor, both
skilled and rnskilled. The governors
or other officials are calling on us to
send them men and women who want
work and giving assurances that the
work will be provided. The factories
and farms re mines and mills. all
join In the chorus of demand, while
from everywhere comes the soprano
note of insistence that more domestic
servants lie divided
Commissioner Of Labor Sargent
some time ago got in mind that 1t
would be a GOOD thing to learn the ac.
tual facts about the reported demand
for labor 1t seemed phenomenal that
with the unprecedented immigration
there should be an ever increasing
demand for workers Moreover, he
wanted 10 learn everything possible
about the proper distribution Of immi-
grants, 50 that newcomers should be
placed where they were wanted and
would find work and people who had
work to do would find people to do 1t.
Mr.. Sargent has found out what he
wanted TO know. He has learned that
workers are wanted everywhere. No
community IS willing to lose any OF
the desiratle immigrants. Every COM
munity seems to want more than Il
gets.
Mr.. Powderly was given charge OF
this inquiry as chief Of the informa-
ton work He sent out circulars to
all governors. asking specific questions
about labor conditions, the demand for
workers, the sort Of work to be done,
wages, conditions Of employment, etc.
Especially he wanted to know about
opportunities for getting cheap land
and whether the states offered any
sort Of Inducements to immigrants.
The replies seem to leave no doubt
OF the genuineness OF the demand for
more people First comes the call for
farm labOrcrs New York tells OF the
number of fc"ms there for sale or rent
because Of the shortage OF people to
run them Massachusetts has like
plant, e-enforced by the statistics that
Massachusetts loves. New Hampshire
| seconds the lotion. Especially does
| New England want domestic servants
| Not more than half the states have
yet sent in their answers but they
represent Al! sections and are IA the
same vein. Send all kinds OF work
ingmen," writes Oregon. Married or
single are al wanted; no difference in
| the demand"
| New Yogl.. despite that II shows
fine list of farm opportunities fer peo-
pie who Wat to buy or lease. doesn't
want labore~e for the cities and does
rot need Iueg hanics. Rather the de-
word that the state has 10000 building
| trades mechanics unemployed and
that there is no scarcity in any direc-
| ton save on the farms. New York, of
course, is extremely handy 70 the sup
ply Of labor that comes on the immi-
grant ships. It is getting as many Of
| these as II feels able to assimilate.
But the south wants farm and plan.
/ tation workers and mechanics for its
short handed mills. The demand Is
the same from all the southern states
that have reported Louisiana sent
one Of the most insistent demands, in
GLIDING the offer Of free homes and
/ fuel TO good workers. Wages are
from 20 cents to $50 for plantation
hands. with free homes and commonly
with free fuel: mill hands can get
from $50 10 81 per day, according 10
skill and the trade Aliens with small
amounts Of money VIII also find II
/ possible to secure lands for homes at
the lowest prices and on their own
/ terms.
/ Georgia wants all the people she can
get who Will work. Single men are
/ preferred there. The cities and the IN
+ dustrial centers, especially In the fast
/ developing iron trade. want more peo.
/ pie than are TO be had Farm laborers
are in Ike demand Utah asks for
both single and married men" and
/ New Mexico needs labor for railroad
and mining. Minnesota promises work
4 for thousands, both on the farms and
+ IN the cities.
1 There is vigorous intimati0n that or
ganized labor does not like this propa.
ganda in favor Of foreign lator, and
+ threats have been nuttered of making
I 1t a politiraI issue IN 1905. The labor
4 organization people insist that there
are stili many unemployed people in
/ the United States and that the govern
4 mont yroy1ld baffar devote itself IN get.