The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-01-19
STATE BUREAU
Of EMPLOYMENT
OVER FIVE THOUSAND APPLl-
cANrs GUIDED TO JoBs-No
EXPENSE 70 APPLICANTS

Guthrie. Okla. Jan lit B. dem
onstatcd by figures prepared by
state Labor Commissioner Daugh
crty that the state free employment
bureau has been great boon TO
the lauorcr who l. down ON his luck
lie makes showing that during
the last six months uf the year 1909
were secured for 5ili
applicants without one cent of cN.
pcnsc TO them. Anogcthrr 9,756 ap-
plications we're received. and the
OF the total number OF
applicants for whom places were sc.
cured would have been larger but
for the slump i'm the building trades
and paving work during the month
OF December, caused by The musu-
ally cold weather
At the Oklahoma city office 3,252
applications were received I'm De
ccmhcr aud only al7 applications
were placed. Prior to \ov 10 cm
ploymput WJs secured for practi.
ulIy 50 per cent of the applicants
October was the month when the
Oklahoma city Office had the big
ecst d .mand for laborcrs. i59 having
been placed during th' month and
3Ni in November
Nltogcthcr 100 applications were
received and employment secured
Tor 1923 applicants, including p
a74 male aud 65l female OF the to
tai number placed l.7S9 were resi-
dents ana t,S3G non-residcuts, show
ing that there is no discrimination
as To residence, the only require
mont being that man Is out of d
Job and needs work
The Muskogec Office did not
make a, large showing ON the
amount OF business done, but placed
q much larger percentage of the
applicants. only 2,20i applications
~ ere received. aud LISP were placed
including l.Il0 male and i09 fc-
male. Muskogcc did not experience
the same slump in December that
Oklahoma City did. but paced AS
out of 525 applicants. the largest
number placed during any month
in the entire year. This Is due to
a.. 90 g,fLF h.
new Standard oil pipe line TO the
gulf. which Is employing large
number of laborers. The figures also
show that the floating population
there is proportionately much small
er. as 1870 Of those applicants were
residents of the state and only 2iO
nonrcsidents
The free employment bureau was
established by the first state legisla-
urc. which directed tch commission
O.. Of labor to establish such a bu-
rrau in connection with his depart
mont and appoint a superintendent.
/ The office was first opened at Guth-
rie. July /, 1905. in charge Of
W. r. Vance, a former Katy con
| ductor, but was moved to Oklahoma
] City about three months later and
/ has been operated there since that
time. Mr.. Vance is stll in charge
and has been very successful In
his work. The second legislature
made provisions for the establish
ment OF branch Of the free en-
plOyment agency on the east side
of the state. which was located al
Muskogee by the Commissioner OF
Labor, and opened there on July
/, 1909, with Thomas Wiley IN
charge.
During the first year of its exist
cnCe, with one office in operation
and its existence not known tc
many persons who were in want
OF work, the bureau placed over
5000 men and women in honest en-
ployment without expense to them
As the average fee charged by pri
vate employment agencies is $50, T.
IS estimated that at least Si5OO
was saved by the laboring people
of the state by that one item.
Special efforts are made to reach
the farmers and keep in touch with
them, as the bureau is certainly
keeping IN touch with young men
who ar, coming into the state and
who would prove a desirable help
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that because it's busy with the
motor car show.
Then somebody said for me "a
ride horseback. | gott thinking
about il and all I could figure out
would be one of those Percherol
. draft horses Now I'd look nice OF