The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-24
THE RIGHT TO GET WORK
Public Labor Bureaun Help Get Jobs For AlE-UnempIoy1nen in Ger many Robbed of TerroF-Way to Bring Men And Work
 Together

(By Louis Heaton Ping, President of Brooklyn Neighborhoods ;Associa- tion Exclusive Service The l Survey Press Bureau. Hard times bring serious lack of work. But when the country is req sonably prosperous, the difficulty is not so much lack of work as inability to find it. In New York, Chicago and all great cities, we have countless vacant positions, and thousands of carpenters, n1asons, laborers, walters, elevator men, porters, drivers seeking 1 is. more disheartening than to see men lined up before a factory door, day after day. endIessly waitisg.
 in the daily papers are the usual source of information. By the time the man out of work gets to the ad- vertised job he finds line of others ahead of him. One of the other men is taken, Or the work pay is not as represented The day is lost. Day after. day is spent in searching: the heart is eaten out am bition is killed, temper is soured, the seeker for work is less a man after repeated experien- cs. He loses his nerve.
 There are private employment agen- cies, but many cannot pay the fee. At best, these agencies are as drop in the bucket. They exist to supply their clients. Their view is that of the enn- pIoyer T. is only incidentally that they find jobs for men.
 Gives New York or Chicago or Phil adelphia; an average of 50,O00 men men; given the erection of huge build ings; the development of suburban areas; docks and warehouses: tens of thousands of factories; steamers com ing, going loading and unloading; work shifting, now here, now there does it require more than the most ordinary intellig gence to know that the only way to do away with the heart rending and frultless search for work is to have systematic network of labor cent CTS, where the job can seek the man and where all men out of work can register for the job? Each center should be In communication with every other, under a, central con trol, so that if the demand for car penters in one section is greater than the supply, men can be sest from an other neighhorhood, where there are or state control. No fee should be paid by the men, and only a small charge should be made the employer. T. would be almost supporting and might be made entirely so. And what greater economy could there be is the seIf-respect of men, the hunger of women and little children. the pre- ventiOn of suicides?
 The city agencies should be in touch with similar emp employment een5ers @ farmers of the West, praying in vain for men to harvest the crops, could then be supplied frOn1-tne overflow Of the cities. The great railpoa ds, stretchisg the bands of steel across the Western mountains and prairies could get their help from the East and would not have to import Chinese and NIexicans.
 Unemployment in Germany has been robbed of it's worst terrors by the es- tablishment of State labor exchanges and labor colonies. A visit to the labor bureau Of Berlin, Munich or Ulm makes the American wish that we were bit more methodicaI and logical in our care for the unemploy- ed
 Take the good old mediaeva1 city of Ulm as an example The office is light. clean, and cheerful. The man at the desk who interviews applicants does it very much as an American law yer would talk with one of his eli ents. Courtesy is marked After all the facts are learned, they are tab ulated and filed. The index of em- ployers is consulted; opening is found for which the applicants exper- fence would seem to fit him. He is