The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-01
URGES UNCLE SAM BE-
AGENT FOR J0BLESS
Conference on Unemployment
Says Federal Bureau 10
Best Solution.
WILL DISTRIBUTE LABOR
City Club Hes Bill to Have
state Chain Of Employ
ment Agencies.

A Government labor bureau. under the
Department Of Labor. with exchanges
throughout the country. was the solution
offered for the problem Of Unemployment
BY the national conference on uneniploy-
ment, which closed its two days session
Yesterday with q luncheon at the City
Club.
This suggestion WIS made IN ths form
Of a resolution drawn UP ut the morning
meeting In the Metropolitan Building and
attended by delegates from societies In
nfty-eisht cities and twenty-five states.
Al the luncheon. that followed the mora
ing's meeting. the cl,rb's committee A.
pointed TO inquire into the need Of puo-
lie employment exchanges In New York
made its report recommending the esteb-
lishment OF bureau Of employment within
the New York state Department of Labor.
A suggestion for . bill was offered 70
establish this bureau. and Morris L DTuG0e,
chairman of the committee. urged that u
was not too late to get II bsGoro the XaGD-
iaturs and have II paused II . big en6uBA
delegation attends its 1uhlio heating -
Albany.
Ono Of ta,e speakers q tAs hznahaoa
was Commissions q Chari3a0 JdaA n
Kingsbury. wAo outlined Ghs Oosk mt
the city Is now doing Tor ths unemployed
There 70 no need o6 those Who ass out of
work besieging the churuhaA - sail. ~
Municipal Lodsing House u ready - ta1D
care Of every one and win sfvs them Bet
ter accommodations than The churuhA0
could and meals ~ woll
Te Examine HsnsIesA
Beginning Tomorrow. Commissioners
Kingsbury continued. the city will taho
more constructive measures In dealing
with the Municipal Lodging House crowd
Two doctors and their assistants. Dr..
James Alexander Moore and DR.. Mac
schlapp. will examine about 1000 mon
each day. physically. mentally and 70.
cially. 70 set definite facts as to Why they
are out Of work and what they are fitted
to do
Commissioner Kingsbury said he feels
that the abnormal condition Of unsnploy.
ment is improving and can sec Q better
ment in the last twenty days. The situa-
ton Is still serious. however. But At
worst II Is not as grave as In 1907 in Mr..
kingsbury's opinion.
The Municipal Lodging House census
has been more than double in the last
two months what II was last year during
that period or the year before" he said
when Mayor Mitchell took ONCE ne found
men packed like hogs In the waiting rooms
Of the city piers and on tho boats. They
were fighting like dogs for an inch Of
space and had to call police reserves to
protect tho weaker men.
Cots and Blankets fer All.
''Since tho first Of the year We have
cd ho a.it - b.
Municipal Lodging House and have A.
ranged II 90 that every man in the over
now that cannot get into the lodging
house gets a cot and blanket"
To protect the city against men VINO
have no desire to work a plan has been
made since the snowfall 10 require an
hours work for bed and another hour
for a meal. The Jobs available have been
trebled.
I'VE are going to take active steps IN
dealing with tho question Of the unem-
ployed." Commissioner KinEsbury said.
land can say for the Mayor that We are
going to get something started now"
Other speakers at the luncheon were
Prof. Charles Richmond Henderson, Oee-
rotary or the Chicago Commission on the
Unemployed. and Meyer Bloomfield, direc.
tor of the Vocation Bureau Of Boston.
Among those present were Julius Henry
Cohen. James Delaney verplanck.
George Haven Putnam Prof. Edgar Daw-
son. DR.. Fabian Franklin, DR.. John x.
Andrews, Owen r. Lovejoy. Miss Ida NJ.
Tarbell. J. Aspipwall Hodge, DR.. E. r.
pevine. Paul NJ. Warburs, Seth Low
Pierrepont. Paul kennaday. Benjamin C.
Marsh Calvin romkins. Miles ". Daw-
son. George w. Alser, James J. Higstnson,
George Gordon Battle, John r. Shiiloday
Miss Mary Van Cleek, tho Rev Gaylord
s. White and Miss Alice Carpenter
| Labor s.Clea rius Ho~..v
Tho resolutions passed at the morning
session provided that the proposed Gov
eminent bureau OF labor supplement the
work now being done by State and munich
pal bureaus. to act as a clearing house
OF information and TO further the distribu-
| ton OF labor throughout the country when
| the distribution will not make for the
deterioration OF the present standards of
wages, conditions and hours Of employ
| ment OF American workers or impairing
their efforts to improve them
Establishment or reconstruction Of free
State agencies was urged to conform with
these principles First, that appointments
and tenure OF office be governed by the
merit system and be placed beyond the
control OF political parties second. appro-
priations should be sufficient to mako the
agencies effective: third, that the agen-
cies should constitute a network Of central
bureaus so AS to constitute "A truly national
be required to register each application
and position secured; sixth. that fire.
qucnt reports be made fifth. that the
bureaus remain neutral In all trade dis
putes"
The resolutions recommend that private
employment bureaus operated for prof,t
be brought under control OF the Federal
Government
The City Club bill provides that "A Nth
bureau be added to the State Department
OF Labor. bureau Of Employment. II
Is proposed to have employment Offices
in New York Buffalo. Syracuse. Rochester.
Utica. jamestown, Albany and Bingham
ton and such other towns as the Commits
sioner may direct chief superintendent
Is TO be In charge Of the bureau.
Each Office" according to the proposed
bill, shall give notice Of the existence
of any labor disturbance to all applicants
who may be affected thereby. but shall
not refuse Its services to amy person by.
reason OF such disturbance. No fec or
other compensation shall be charged or
collected from persons applying for en-
ployment"