The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-29
A GREAT DEMAND
FOR WORKMEN NOW
II Has Been Years Since There
Was Such a Cry for
Laborers.
is EMPLOYMENT FOR ALL
STATE FREE EMPLOYMENT BIZ.
REAU is HAVING ITS HANDS
FULL ANSWERING DEMAND OF
THE BUSINESS MEN.
palladium Specially

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Indianapolis, Ind, Sept 23.-It has
been years since there was such a de-
mand for laborers as there is In Indi-
ana at this time. Not a day passes
but that the state free employment bu-
reau at the state house is asked to sup
ply from ten to hundred labo-ers in
this city and elsewhere in the state
Not only that, but there has been 4
request received from a factory in
Ohio for a hundred men. which the
free employment bureau could not fill.
All of this is taken to indicate that
times are good and that there is work
for everybody that wants to work. For
two weeks past the Indianapolis Wat
er company has been advertising in the
daily papers here for sixty men and
forty teams, and 1t cannot get them.
Good wages have been offered and still!
the men do not show up.
Rush on at Capital.
The Indianapolis Motor speedway,
where the automobile races are held. is
advertising for two hundred laborers,
and it can not get them. The speed
way track is being paved with brick
pavement. and the company wants the
men to work on that job. The track
is two miles and half in length, and
the job will take several weeks. The
speedway people are nearly crazy over
the failure to get enough men to do
the work. for it hopes to get the track
done in time to hold some more races
in October. One effect of this unusu-
al demand for men and teams has been
to run the wages Of teams up from
$3.50 and $500 a day to $500 and
$3.50 a day. And the wages may go
even higher than that. because it is
impossible to get the teams at any
price.
From several towns out in the state
where improvements are being made,
railroad work being done and factories
running. the state free employment
bureau is being implored for men. In
some of the places the factories write
in that they simply must have more
men.
No Charge Is Made.
No charge is made by the state free
employment bureau for finding places
for men who register with it. Neither
is there any charge to the employer for
furnishing him with men. 1t is the
purpose of the bureau to get employer
and employee together so that both may
be benefited.
Not oplv are men wanted for work
on improvements and in factories, but
many farm owners write to the bureau
to furnish them with men for their
farms. Here is letter that came to
the bureau a few days ago:
One Of Letters Received.
Il want a man and his wife on my
farm, and to the right kind of a couple
house rent free. garden and truck
patches furnished, and a number Of
chickens, together with the milk and
butter from a COW that will feed"
"If such offers as that do not eventu-
ally solve the problem of city conges-
ton following migration from the
farms hardly see how it can be solv-
ed" said Frank Clouds. bureau employ
ment clerk. Thirty dollars under
the conditions offered means more
than an annual saving. with better
conditions of living than any one out
of a thousand workmen in the city en-
joys Sooner or later the working
men, it seems to me, will surely realize
the advantages being offered by the
farmers of the state and accept them.