The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-24

exchange maintains a bureau where
members can get consultation upon the
law, either in working or private af-
fairs, free Of charge. The law bureau
adioins another splendid feature of this
amazing unemployed club-a model first
aid medical and hospital room. One
passed from it into n white tiled bath
room, where hot and cold shower baths
in separate booths, including use Of
soap and fresh towels, may be taken for
! cent.
While the visitor is losing himself
in admiration OF all this, messengers
dash III and out TO work, others strag-
gle in looking for it. Inspector Stcffen,
head of the male division. enters the
great hall where the unskilled men and
boys arc congregated. He raps for ST
lence. In his hand rustic dozen pink
slips. "Men wanted applications sent
IN by employers by letter, messenger or
telephone. He reads ont, 'Bumpstein.
Stralaucrstrasse 10, wants eleven piano
movers for two weeks; wages, 62i2
cents day Inspector Steffon ad.
vances toward the younger work
men' pit Piano-moving is too siren,
uous for older men, Then, twenty, per
haps thirty, fellows rise from their
benches. eagerly holding aloft their
numbered membership cards, for, other
things being equal, precedence is given
to those who have been waiting longest
Herr Steffcn takes his selections
carefully. hearing employers and
would-be employees interests mutually
in mind. He gives preference TO the
married men and those with children
to support, but they must he likely
men for the Job, as the Exchange is
jealous of its reputation for supplying
the right man for the right places. 4
working man or woman who gives evl-
dence of too strong inclination to drink
or sJothfulDeSs is frequently recognized
and refused the privilege Of member
ship, The Exchange has done its work
when it sends Bumpsiein his eleven
piano movers. 1t is for them 10 say,
when they reach his premises, on ex-
acty what terms they care to enter
his employ. The Exchange exercises
pressure upon neither work giver nor
work-taker. If the men who have been
sent TO Job do not want 1T, they must
reloin 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 n day are doled out i'll
these abnormal times of employment.
Similar scenes are enacted in the |
women's department, where all sorts of |
female help is supplied except shop and |
Office assistants: In charge is Frau.
lem klausncr, who can only be de |
scribcd as an encyclopedia of informn- |
tion and angel of human kindness com |
bined Facing her sit go jobless wont
en- and s-charwomcn, bookbinders, |
tobacco -sorters, blouse makers, Iaun-
dresses. printers assistants, separated, !
like the unskilled men, into specialized
groups. The telephone rings. cone mo
ment, chirps Fraulein Klausner, laying
down the receiver, "Hagelsturn, Keep,
Ala, needs three young
and run errands, wages $50 week.
Eighteen women and girls crowd to the
desk-eighteen eager for ten hours
work Il day at IL cents "'This is no
place for sou, Fraulein Schrippeu,n
says the inspectress, TO one of them.
''It s too far from your location"
& You re not strong enough to run cr-
rands,' she remarks to another wan
creature, .'Don It take this iob''-to Il
surely have something bet
ter for you today And so it goes on
n the women's department of the labor
combination of business
and fellowfeeling not often encount-
,red in the workaday world, The Ex-
hange's department for domestic serv.
Ints is operated In different part of !
he town.
The buildings of the Exchange, which
we're specially erected for it in 1902.
re the property of the Prussian State
insurance Administration (worlsmen' s
nd old age insurance.) For their ren.
al the Exchange pays sum amounting
o 2h per cent return on an invest
nent of $4,000. The management of
he Exchange is vested in q board CON
isting of an equal number of employ
rs and workmen, the chairman bcino
he president of the State Insurance
administration.