The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-21
STATE EMPLOYMENT
BUREAU OPENS SOON
Examinations for Directors TO
Be Held Next Satur-
day.
TO SHOW WHERE WORK Is
No Provision Made to Transport
the JObless to Where
There Arc Jobs.

A civil service examination TO select
a director Of the new state employment
bureau and about nine assistan. direc-
tors Is to be held in this city on June %.
The dictatorship Is a $4,000 job. Assist
ant directors will get $4,000 year each.
There In current lot OF msunder-
standing about the nature and the func-
lions OF this new State enterprise. The
business Of the bureau will not be to get
men jobs. as most people seem to think.
The sole purpose is TO tell workers where
jobs are to be had and to inform EN-
ployers where workmen can be found.
When this has been done the bureau and
its branches will have achieved all that
IL contemplated under the law as II
stands
The exact amount OF money that will be
available for the employment bureau Is
uncertain. bu, II will be from $4,000 to
$4,000. There will be no money what
ever 10 take the man to the waiting job.
q condition that Is likely for some time to
come considerably to limit the new bu-
reau's usefulness.
SIN. the bureau will be OF service In
showing those men who have few dol
lars railroad fare In their pockets where
to go for work and II the employer needs
men badly enough to pay their train fares
he will be able to use the bureau TO real
advantage.
The law establishing State bureau
OF employment was passed at the last
session OF the Legislature and was ap-
proved by Gov. Glynn on April {. IL ~
understood that State Commissioner OF
Labor James NJ. Lynch contemplates
branch bureaus In Albany. Utica, SYRIA
cuse Buffalo. Rochester, Blnghamton
and jamestown. Each OF these will be
In charge of an assistant director. The
principal office. in charge OF the direc-
tor and probably one assistant director,
will he In New York.
Although the State law creating an EN-
ployment bureau lays stress on the need
OF a capable head director above every
thing else the State Civil Service Com
mission has limited the field ~ choice to
residents OF this state. John u. Andrews,
secretary of the American Association for
Labor LEGISLATION, said yesterday that he
thought this was a serious il'stake.
New York has had no public emplo"-
ment bureaus and other States have had
them for some time Mr.. Andrews said.
consequently some OF the st expert
men are outside this state. The rule OF
the State Civil Service Commission Is
likely to prevent this State and city get
ting the best possible man-and that man
Is needed here In New York far more
than at any other place in this country"
Mr. Andrews emphasized the need of an
experienced man to head New Yorks
new bureau. one who will keep the thing
out OF politics and who will be able 10
deal fairly both with the Jobless and the
employer. one OF the chief tactical prob
lens of a public employment bureau arises
where workmen have struck and the en-
ployer wants to replace them. Shall the
agency list such "scab" jobs? II It does
shall II tell the applicants for work OF the
strike? The course generally pursued
here and abroad In such a case Is to post
The news of the vacant Jobs and tell the
man seeking work that there Is a strike.
leaving 1t to him TO decide II he wants to
play strike breaker.