The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1913-10-09
THE STATE AS A
LABOR EXCHANGE
New Move May Equalize Sup
ply and Demand.
PLANS BEING CONSIDERED
Commissioner Fitzpatrick VIII Try to
Get Employers In Touch With
Those Seeking Work Through
State Agencies

Jefferson City.-A system of ex-
change by which men and women out
of employment in one part of Mis-
souri, may be put in touch with en-
ployers in other portions of the state
in need of help is the task Labor Com
missioner John IT. Fitzpatrick has un-
dertaken in connection with the work
of the three state free employment
bureaus at ST. Louis Kansas City and
ST. Joseph. The question of transport
ing the unemployed to the places
where they can secure work is the
only obstacle in the way at present,
but it is thought this can be sur
mounted.
The idea was suggested by the con-
dition which exists in st. Joseph,
where large number of women and
girl toilers over sixteen years OF age
are needed by garment and candy fac
tories The inability to secure female
help there has caused employers to
put men and boys over sixteen years
old to work in some Of the places.
The tasks, as rule, are of such
nature that only deft, nimble hands
can perform them well. For this rea-
son women and girls are needed.
Information furnished Commissioner
Fitzpatrick by Supt. George ]. Kamler
Of the st. Joseph state free employ
ment bureau is that garment factories
of that city can give 800 women and
girls work, and the candy factories
can take care of one hundred and fifty
more. 1t is stated that the wages in
the garment factories run from Sc to
$14 week, according to experience
and ability. Most of it is piecework.
The women and girls in the candy
factories are paid from Sc to $40 a
week. In the garment factory work is
steady the year round. That in the
candy factories is regular six months
of the year.
There is no time in the year that
there is not demand exceeding the
supply in st. Louis for domestics,
cooks, chambermaids, nurse girls, din
ing room help and similar callings.
Positions are constantly open with
families who will really treat the right
kind of household help properly pay
fair wages and allow leisure time, so
Supt. Frank J. O'Keefe of the state
free employment bureau of that city
informs Commissioner Fitzpatrick.
The same situation exists in Kansas
City, reports Supt Harvey Osborne.
Domestics are always needed there,
and the pay, In good households, often
exceeds $50 month including room
and board.
The secretary of state has issued
charters to the following new corpora.
tions of Kansas City: Kansas City
Horse Show Society, capital stock
$4,000; Western Mining Exchange,
capital stock, $4,000; Bernardin Tim
Der Manufacturing Company. capital
stock 100000; Evanston Heights
Realty Company, capital stock $4,000.
The Missouri State Bar Associa-
tion has decided that changes should
be made in the laws governing the dis
barment of attorneys in this state.
At the suggestion of Thomas Reynolds
of Kansas City a committee was au-
thorized to draft amendments 10 the
laws which will simplify the methods
of disbarring attorneys.
An inquiry was instituted here in
the state auditors office to ascertain
II there has really been a heavy de-
crease In the cattle and hogs of this
state within recent years, as con-
tended by the packers at their recent
meeting in Chicago. The figures prove
conclusively that the supply of both
cattle and hogs has been decreasing.
In 1890 there were 2,624,23S head Of
cattle in Missouri as returned by the
assessors, and 2,646,575 head of hogs.
In 1913 there were 1,702,753 head of
cattle and 2,069,33S head of hogs. This
indicates a decrease during the
tewnty-three years of 921 ,575 head OF
cattle and 5S3,237 head of hogs. In
this period it is estimated that the
| population of the state increased 700,-
900. The big slump in cattle and hogs
really occurred of recent years, for in
1910 there were 2,039,S57 head of
cattle and 2,269,7S5 head of hogs.
.
M. e. Darby Of Springfield is state
bee Inspector His duties are to in
spect apiaries to eradicate diseases pc
culiar to honey bees. He is elected by
the state board of agriculture for two
years and receives 81 day and ex.
penses when employed.
o
The state board Of prison inspectors
has decided to install concrete in the
new cell building of the penitentiary
now in process of construction. The
legislature appropriated 100000 for
this building. 1t will occupy the site
of what is known as the Centennial
cell building and will accommodate
1000 prisoners, allowing two prisoners
10 each cell.
Missouri will be the second state II
the Union to adopt concrete cells il
preference to steel In the states