Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-02
FINDS Jobs FOR ALL
Great Britain Opens New
Labor Exchanges.
HELP FOR UNEMPLOYED
No Strikebreakers to Be Furnished
by Government.
AMSTERDAM'S CITY PAWNSHOP
Thrifty Hollanders Who Let Uncle
Care for Wardrobe, Except
on Sundays.

BY WILLIAM r. CUhliS.
Written for The Star and the Chicago Record
An experiment in practical economics
has just been undertaken in Great Britain
by authority of an act Of parliament.
which was a part of the program OF the
liberal party last year.
1t is the esta blshment Of oficial en-
ployment bureaus in London and other
large cities of Great Britain and ireland,
where the employers of labor can find
all the help they need, and clerks. book
keepers. household servants, mechanics.
artisans and laborers may register. offer
their services and make known their
wants without the payment Of fee.
It is thus proposed by the government
to bring the employers and the unem-
ployed together on an official basis. Ar
rangements are such that opportunities
for employment in any part of the king
dom may be communicated promptly to
all exchanges, as the agencies are to be
called. and posted in a prominent place
for the information Of whomever 1t may
concern.
The government does not undertake to
recommend or to guarantee or to give
any information further that that which
is communicated by the persons directly
interested. and will assume no risk, but
will simply act as medium OF COM
munication between those who are seek
ing help and those who are seeking en-
ployment.
Open to All Wage Farmers.
The scope Of the exchanges is broad.
and they are open to domestic servants,
seamstresses, clerks, bookkeepers and
every other class of wage earners In the
kingdom. There Is a good deal of curl
osity now as to how the scheme is going
to work. and the labor unions generally
are skeptical as to its practtcabdlity, but
it will at least have the advantage of
educating the public with regard to the
actual conditions of labor in England,
Scotland and Wales. and illustrate the
various phases of the situation.
No doubt brief experience will sug-
gest important changes in the methods
adopted at the start, and assist to work
out problems that are involved in the
responsibility which the government has
assumed. But the immediate business OF
helping genuine workmen to find en-
ployment, and supplying explorers with
good days work for a fair days pay, is
| a benevolent undertaking that should be
supported without regard to politics or
| theories.
Eleven Clearing Houses.
Eleven divisional clearing houses or CEN
| trail agencies will be established at Lon
don, Glasgow. Dublin, Cardiff. Manches-
| ter, Liverpool, Newcastle, Leeds, Shelf
| field. Birmingham and Bristol. which will
be the headquarters OF those industrial
districts and returns will be made regu.
larry to them from the subordinate ex-
changes. which will be divided into sew
eral classes.
The first class will be opened in thirty
cities OF more than one hundred Thousand
population; second-class exchanges Will
be opened in cities of more than ffty
| thousand, and less than one hundred
| thousand population; third-class ex.
changes will be given to smaller cities
and subofhces to towns conveniently sit.
uated.
Daily reports will be made from each OF
the exchanges to headquarters and to each
other, so that wOrkmen who cannot find
employment in one locality will be ad.
| In case employment is offered by respon-
stbie parties, the railway tickets will be
furnished workmen OF good character to
such places and the cost collected from
their second months earnings.
1t is proposed to erect special buildings
| IN convenient locations as permanent
homes for the exchanges, but Temporary
offices VIII be rented in the meantime
The subagenoes upon the docks will have
attached to them waiting rooms and sheds
where applicants for employment may
await the arrival OF vessels in the hope
of securing employment in the discharge
Of the cargo.
Facilities Of Exchanges.
Connected with each exchange will be
separate rooms for skilled and unskilled
| workmen, for those in search Of clerical
positions, for women and for applicants
| under twenty years OF age. Rooms will
also be furnished for employers who wish
to interview applicants privately.
In the principal exchanges women and
girls will make their applications to and
leave their recommendations with q wom-
an superintendent, and arrangements will
be made SO that she can communicate
with them by telephone instead Of re-
quiring them to come to the Office.
Special attention will be given to find-
ing employment upon farms for boys
| whose physical condition will permit them
to do manual labor, and those who are
physically incapable OF manual labor will
be certified to hospitals and sanitariums
where they can receive proper treatment.
The general superintendent of the sys-
tenn OF exchanges will be w. H. Bever-
age, recognized authority on labor ques-
tons. whose volume on unemployment .
published two or three years ago, caused
him n Y,rOy, nflv fpSt 1iod he l,oo -