Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-05-29
Governments Employment Work.

Governments Employment Work.
Few of our readers are, perhaps,
aware that the United States Govern
ment, the Department of Labor, has
inaugurated as a part of the Division
of Information a countrywide en-
ployment bureau. 1t is the belief of
those connected with the work that it
will go far toward improving business
conditions in the United States. The
underlying principle of the work is,
perhaps, best expressed by the Secret
airy of the Department of Laborin the
following words.
1.-THE Department of Labor has es-
tablished Distribution Branches
throughout the country for the pur-
pose on the one hand of developing
the welfare of the wage earners of the
United States and improving their OPP
pOrtunities for profitable employment,
and on the other hand of affOrdiug to
employers a method whereby they
may make application for such help
as they need, either male, or female,
citizens or alien residents, and have
their wants supplied through said
Distribution Branches.
Comparative statistics show that
there has been in some portions of the
United States surplus of labor, while
in other portions a deficiency. 1t is
believed that this condition will be al
most, if not entirely, eliminated by
this work. This will appear from the
following brief explanation of the
system under which the work is con
Quoted:
The United States has been divided
into eighteen sections, or "Distribnt-
ion Zones" as they are called, and in
each of these zones an employment
Office has been opened. These zones
in nearly every case have been sub
divided and branch offices opened un-
der the jurisdiction of the controlling
zone office. This means that large
number of employment offices have
been opened by the United States
Government. At these Offices the EN-
ployer who needs help of any kind,
skilled or unskilled, be he farmer.
merchant, manufacturer, or whatever
his business, can secure what he wants
without any more trouble or expense
than the work of stating what he de
sires, and the expense of a postage
stamp if he finds it ineOnvenient to
call at the Distribution Office in per-
son. Neither is any fee accepted by
the Government from those seeking
employment. 1t goes even further;
every postmaster in the nited States
Is representative of this Employ
ment Bureau. At every post office
in the United States will be found, on
application to the postmaster, blanks
for the use of employers in need of
help and for the use of persons seek
employment. The blanks, upon be-
ing handed to the postmaster are
transmitted by him, free of charge,
to the proper zone office, where both
blanks are properly registered, and
proper help selected for the employer
in need of help, either from applicants
residing in the city in which the office
is located, or from the applications on
Ale. On the day the employers APP
plicatiOn is received by the Distribut-
ion Office, copy is sent to the Diyis-
ion of Information, at Washington,
ID. c. AT frequent intervals these
applications are assembled and pub
lished in the form of bulletins and
distributed to all Distribution Offices.
thereby making it possible for each
to know where help of any description
is in demand. Z
AT the Distribution Office the best
interests of the employer are kept con-
stantly in mind and only such help is
selected for positions as are, in the
opinion of the officer In charge, we'll
qualified to perform the duties requir-
ed.
INVENTIONS WE NEED.