Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-06-25
NATIONAL BUREAU
Of Interest to Employers and Others
Federal Department of Labor In
augerates Nation Wide Employ
ment Bureau-Wage Farmers and
Employers to be Brought Together.

Few of our readers are, perhaps,
aware that the United States Gov
ernment, through the Department of
Labor, has inaugurated as part of
the Division of Information a coun-
try-wide employment bureau. 1t is
the belief of those connected with the
work that it will go far toward i'm
proving business conditions in the
United States. The underlying prin-
ciple of the work is, perhaps, best
expressed by the Secretary of the
Department of Labor in the follow
ing words:
"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
opportunities for profitable employ
ment, and on the other hand of afford
ing 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
almost, if not entirely, eliminated by
this work. This will appear from the
| following brief explanation of the
system on which the work is conduct
ed:
The United States has been divided
into eighteen sections, or "Distribu-
ton Zones" as they are called, and
in each of thest zones an employment
office has been opened. These zones
in nearly every case have been SUBJ
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
CAPCISC LllaA Tile WQIh VI obaJ1ilk
what he desires, and the expense of a
postage stamp if he finds it inconven-
lent to call at the Distribution Office
| in person. Neither is any fee accept
ed by the Government from those
seeking employment. It goes even
| further; every postmaster in the Unit
ed States is a representative of this
| Employment Bureau. At every post
office in the United States will be
found, on application to the postmast-
| er, blanks for use of employers in
need of help and for the use of per-
sons seeking employment. These
blanks, upon being handed to the
postmaster are transmitted by him,
! free Of charged Ito the proper zone of
| fee. 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, OF
from the applicants residing in the
city in which the office is located, OF
from the applications on file On the
day the employers application is
received by the Distribution Office, q
COPY is sent to the Division of Infor-
nation. at Washington, D C. At fre-
quent intervals these applications are
assembled and published in the form
of bulletins and distributed to all Dis
tribution Offices, thereby making il
possible for each office to know where
help of any description is in demand
At the Distribution Office the bes
interests of the employer are KEEP
constantly in mind, and only sucl
help is selected for positions as are
in the opinion of the officer in charge
well qualified to perform the duties re
quired.
If any reader of The Tribune is nov
or expects shortly to be in need Of
help of any description, it is suggested
that the following coupon be filled ou
and mailed to the address given.
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