United labor bulletin., 1915-01-16
FEDERAL WORKERS
HELPING JOBLESS
National Employment Bureau
Opened This Week
All Postmasters and Field Agents Of
Agricultural Department to Act in
Bringing Jobs and Jobless Together

a national employment bureau, reach
ing into every section OF the United
States. was put in operation by the
United States department OF labor this
week, carrying out the suggestion OF
President Wilson in his Indianapolis
speech for "a systematic method of help
ing the workingmen of America Pre-
liminary work for the bureau has been
completed it was announced in Wash
ington by Commissioner Caminetti OF
the immigration bureau, and instruc-
tions sent to the thousands of post
masters and rural mail carriers through
out the country and to nearly 100000
field agents of the department OF agri-
culture who will cooperate with the
labor department to bring the jobless
man and the manless job together.
All agents OF the immigration bureau
will participate in the huge task
Caminetti said, ana the blanks and re-
ports for their use already have been
printed and will be forwarded without
delay.
The general plan of the employment
bureau was outlined by Caminetti as
| follows:
Postoffices to Put Up Notices.
Notices win be posted in all post
offices announcing that applicants for
work or workers will be received by the
| postmaster, who will be supplied with
| forms to be filled out and forwarded to
the labor department agent in charge
of the zone in which the office is locat-
ed The distribution branch of the i'm
migration service will handle this part
of the work and to them also will go
the reports of the department OF agri-
| culture 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 collection
| agency for applicants and replies
throughout the transactions
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 a small way and the results had been
most satisfactory. After the fires at
Salem, Mass, last June, when nearly
1000 factory operatives We're thrown out
OF employment. the labor department
/ Nu~'SNASG AAAAtA- WIN AtA VI
them.
Secretary Wilson Approves Plan
BY curious coincidence Secretary
Wilson of the department of labor ap-
proved on the date of the Presidents
indianapolis speech the finar report
made to him by Caminetti announcing
the completion of the plans. In this
report Commissioner Caminetti said:
Il am pleased TO report that the plan
OF organization for furnishing laborers
to farmers and other employers is now
complete and ready for operation
throughout the United States.
The officers at their respective sta
tious have been instructed IN the meth
DDS that have been in use under the
auspices of the division of Information
| in the work OF distribution hitherto in
force.
David F. Houston. secretary OF agri-
culture. addressed a letter to all off
GERS OF that department to cooperate In
the scheme for the employment and dis
| tribution of laborers in the United
States. He said that future general in
structions would be printed in the week
! ly news letter OF the department
The employees of the department of
agriculture are requested to report the
necessity for workers in the locality
where they reside and also to notify
farmers of the scheme