The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-23

law bureau adjoins another splendid
 feature of this amazing unemployed cluh--a model first-aid medical and hospital room. One passed from it in-
 to a white tiled bath room, where hot and cold shower baths in separate
 booths. including use of soap and fresh towels. may be taken for 1 cent
 While the visitor Is losing himself in admiration of all this. messengers dash in and out to work, others struggle in looking for it.. Inspector Stefren. head of the male division. enters the great hall where the unskilled men and boys are congregated. He raps for silence. In his hand rustic a dozen pink slips, Men wantedy appIications sent in by employers by letter, messenger, or teie- phohe. He reads out: "Bumpstein. Straiauerstrasse 19. wants eleven piano movers for two weeks; wages 62 l-2 cents day.,'
 Inspector Steffen advances towards the younger workmen" pit. Piano Ten. twenty. perhap thirty, fellows rise from their benches. eagerly holding aloft their numbered membership cards. for. other things being equal. prece- dence Is given to those who have been waiting longest.
 Herr Steffen makes his selections carefully. bearing employers and Woui0-0t bfuVloy tE intCIcbtc thihhHtAy Ah mind. He gives preference to the mar ried men and those with children to support. but they must be likely nieb for the job, as the Exchange Is jealous of it's reputation for supplying the right men for the right places.
 A working man or woman who gives evidence of too strong inclination to drink or slothfulness is frequently rec ognlzed and refused the privileges of memneT41in. q s
 The Exchange has done it's work when it sends Bumpstein, his eleven piano movers. It Is for them to saw when they reach his premises, on exact- ly what terms they care to enter his employ. The Exchange exercises pres sure opon neither work giver nor work taker. If the men who have been sent to job do not want 1t. they must re- join the Exchange as newcomers and pay fresh registration fees. This is the whole modus operandi of this simple. effective. democratic. prompt, work finding organization. From two to four hundred jobs day are doied out in these abnormal times of unempfoy- ment.
 Similar scenes are enacted Tn the womans' department, where all sorts of female help is supplied except shop and office assistants. In charge Is Frau lein Klausner. who can. only be des- cribed as an encyclopaedia of informa- ton and an angel of human kindness combined. Facing her sit 25o jobless women and girls--charwomen, book binders. tobacco sorters, blouse makers, printers assistants. separ ated, like the unskilled men. into sps- cialized groups.
 The telephone rings.
 "One moment" chirps Frauieip Klausner. laying down the receiver
 'Hagelsturm, Koepenickerstresse a14. needs three young women to re-touch Easter postcards and run errands wages s2.50 per week."
 Eighteen women and girls crowd to the desk-eighteen eager for ten hours' work day at 41 cents
 This is no place for you. Fraulein says the inspectress. to on" of them. tIt's too far from your iods. ings."
 "You-re not strong enough to run sr- rands." she remarks to another wap creature.
 "Don't take this job." to a third. 'I'll surely have something better for yov today"
 And so 1t goes on in the women's de- of the Labor Exchange--s of bushes and fellow-feel' ing not often encountered in the,work- aday world. The Exchanges depart. ment for domestic servants is operated in a different part of the town
 The buildings of the Exchange which were specially erected for it in 1902, are the property of the Prussian State Insurance Administration (work- mems and old-age insurance) For their rental the Exchange pays sum amounting to 2 I-2 per cent return on an investment of s27b,000.
 |, The management of the Exchange IS vested In a board consisting of an equal number of .employere and, workmen, the Ichai ffhah bsmg tfs President, of the state InsuTa nee A dfni m sfratio on "a