The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-27
REDFIELD'S OUTLOOK.

In the speech by William c. Red
field, secretary of commerce, before the
Greater Dayton association, he pre-
dicted an industrial awakening that
will revolutionize the nation 3 business,
minimize the possibilities of wreck and
waste of lives, and elevate working
m6l and women to positions that Will
keep them in safety and decency. The
secretary devoted particular attention
10 the immense hardships TO themselves
and to others caused by young men and
women who are compelled to work and
yet are unskilled in any particular line
Of work The secretary said;
It is one OF the real tragedies that
has It's pitiful reactions In every In
dustrial home The mechanic Wouia
not have TO struggle TO get II as MS
fatheE did. a mother would nave
her daughter taught something which
VIII help her 70 live in decency end
in safety and without the risks young
working women so often must run.
The thought OF the nation has been
now beginning TO awake and the
quick response OF the young people
10 vocational education in the states
where II Is furnished points to an
staggers the mind when one grasps
What IT may mean in destroying bu-
misery and in relieving human
want.
The class which Secretary Redfield
here describes contributes hundreds of
thousands TO the ranks Of the unem-
ployed each year. aud the problem of
supplying them with work is largely
the problem OF taking care of the un
employed or the accomplishment pos
sble in this direction we have had
only beginning. Industrial training
undoubtedly will afford great meas
ure of relief, and this system OF train
ing is now receiving wide attention
and is the frequent subject of lcgisla
lion. Another step has for its object
the organization Of fine labor market
by strict supervision Of private offices
and the establishment OF free employ
mcnt bureaus, all knit together into an
eIficieu. system Of labor exchanges.
Nineteen states and twelve municipali.
ties have siIeady provided for public
employment bureaus. but only few
OF these have beer established on
basis that can be considered as genuine
~ efficient.
Al times when there is much com
llaIDt in various regions about the
great numbers of unemployed there is
work 10 be had in other regions. There
are Jobs without mcu and men without
jobs
When legislation has done it's best 10
solve this problem. when the toilers
have been trained 10 meet the demands
Of industry and when efficient labor
exchanges have made possible a sys-
tcmatic interchange Of workmcn
Throughout the nation, there will still
remain the task of developing a system
OF insurance for those who, although
able and willing to work, are yet kept
III thc ranks Of the unemployed by In
duslrial conditions.
j is interesting 10 note in this con
neciIou that T. V Powderly, chief of
the division Of information. Of the de-
par;ment Of labor recommends in his
annual report that bureaus be estab-
iishel IN connection with the postof.
fec department. 90 register labor con.
ditInDF, 81 that the number uf unem-
rlovc3 rigy he definitely determined at
arr time The report suggests the es-
tahiisOmeut of branch Of the division
OF information in every industrial CEN
ter of the United States <'for the pur-
pose Of maintaining registers Of those
*eekiug employment and of those in
need os additional workmen.' In this
way the efforts Of the state exchanges
would be supplemented by tho efforts
Of nationaI bureau Of vast resources.
A WEAK REPLY,