Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-01-10
Plans Finally Outlined and
Ready for Use by Which
Government viii Help
WOuId-be LaborerS,
BEGIN OPERATION IN
ALL UNITED STATES
Secretaries Wilson and HouS-
ton and Postmaster General
BurIeSOn Are in Full Coop
GRAFTON,

tBY MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEAsGp MtREl
Washington, Jan. "a national
employment bureau reaching into
every section of the United States, will
be put in operation by the department
of labor next week, carrying out the
suggestion of President Wilson in the
Indianapolis speech for "a systematic
method of helping the working men
of America"
Preliminary work for the bureau
has been completed, il was an
nounced tonight, by Commissioner
Caminetti of the immigration bureau,
and instructions sent to the thous-
ands of postmasters and rural mail
carriers throughout the country and
to nearly 100000 field agents of the
department of agriculture who will
cooperate with the labor department
to bring the jobless man and the
manless job together All agents of
the immigration bureau also will par
ticpate IN the huge task. Mr.. Cami.
netti said, and the blanks and reports
for their use already have been
printed and will be forwarded with
out delay
General Plan Outlined.
The general plan of the employ
ment bureau was outlined by Mr..
Caminetti as follows:
Notices will be posted in all post
offices announcing that applicants
for work or workers will be received
BIZ the postmaster. who viii be sup
piled with forms to be filled out and
forwarded to the labor department
agent in charge Of the zone in which
the office is located The distribu-
tion branch of the immigration SER
vice will handle this part of the work
and to them also will go the reports
Of the department of agriculture
agents to sections where help is
needed in harvesting or other work.
Applicants will then be informed of
the place where they can obtain work
of the kind they seek and at the near
est point to them, the postal service
acting as the distributing and collec-
ton agency for applicants and replies
TN bhSIOul ltlt lIdilSdtllbIs
In announcing the readiness OF
the system, Commissioner Caminetti
said the plan was not mushroom
growth, but the product of months Of
labor over details. Already, he said
it had been tried out in q small way
and the results had been most salts
factory After the fire at Salem,
Mass, last June, when nearly 1000
factory operatives were thrown out of
employment, the labor department
succeeded in finding work for many
of them.
Approves Committees Plan.
BY a curious coincidence Secretary
Watson of the department of labor,
approved only yesterday. the date OF
the presidents speech, the final report
made to him by Mr. Caminetti an
nouncing the completion of the plans.
In this report Commissioner Cami-
netti said:
II am pleased to report that the
plan Of organization for furnishing
laborers to farmers and other en-
ployers Is now complete and ready for
operation throughout the United
States. The officers at their respect
i've stations have been instructed in
the methods that have been in use
under the auspices of the division of
Information in the work Of distribu-
ton hitherto in force.
MT David f. Houston, secretary OF
agriculture, yesterday addressed a
letter to all officers Of the department
to cooperate In the scheme for the
employment and distribution of la
borers in the United States. He said
that future general instructions
would be printed in the weekly news
letter Of the department
eThe employees Of the department
OF agriculture are requested to report
the necessity for workers in the To-
eallty whore they reside and also ia
notify farmers Of the scheme Appli-
cation blanks delivered to them are
to be returned TO the postmaster Of
the nearest office"