The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-04-10

ious to work. In many cases the farmer who
needs q special kind of is willing to ad
vance the transportation which will take ths
employed from the place OF his application for
work to the scene Of action. Now. OF course.
some men might take the transportation and
never show up and the government has not funds
to make COED such petty defalcations. Nearly
every man. however. who applies for work wants
work. and such men generally have some per
sonal belongings He is told that II he will check
his belongings. which first examined to see
II they are valuable enough to cover the cost of
transportation. and will give the check to the
authorities. they will give him the money to
send him to his place Of employment. This sys
tenn of baggage checking has been going on for
a long time and almost never has there been q
slip, The men go and in most cases make good
Chief Powderly Of the division OF Information
says that in the belongings OF most of the men
who apply for work are found pictures of moth
father or OF family group and that al
most invariably when the baggage is turned over
for inspection and transportation the workseeker
says: Don't lose the picture" 1t Is human trait
and sign Of the softer nature which underlies
almost every exterior. even II 1t be rugged one
and perhaps seemingly at times a hard one.
The remedy for unemployment is employment
This is what Mr. Powderly says and 1t seems as
sharply true as the saying of the past in con-
nection with the resumption Of specie payment.
THE way to resume is to resume" 1t is the ef
fort today of the department OF labor. through its
division of information. to ask all employers in
the United States. agricultural, commercial, man.
ufacturing, to tell the government what men they
want and what they pay. The rural carriers. the
post ofices and every postal means IL being
used to get the Information The responses have
been most generous. The oficals at distri
button center when they find that the proper
place for man that the place to which he
wishes to go is located In another zone communt
cate with the distribution center of that zone.
The work Is systematized and rapidly II 10 BE-
coming the most effective agent to diminish the
condition of unemployment in America
The ofncials Of the division Of information are
now seeking definite Information concerning
how much repair work on barns and other build
ings on the farms is done each winter. The
plan is to see II through the farmers who need
relief canno. be given to many city workers
who have little nothing to do daring the cold
winter months. The farmers are to be asked
what repairs they will need next winter and
what kind of man they would like to have.
The federal oflcials will find the man and thus
they hope to supply with employment during the
slack times In the city many men willing and
anxious to labor through the entire year.
1t seemingly IL wish Of the oh1cials Of the
department of labor that 1t should be known
that while the division of information IL part
OF the bureau Of immigration that this work Of
connecting the 5obless with the job does not
concern itself alone with the immigrant. but aims
to give its service fully and freely alike to the
incoming stranger and to the man who known
this a. his native land