Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-02
NAn0NAL labor
BUREAU FAVORED
HOUSE COMMITTEE SAWS CON-
eREss SHOULD PREVENT uN.
EMPLOYMENT.
BELIEVES IT HAS POWER
TO REMEDY CONDITIONS
Action Uursed to Prevent Recurrence
Of General Enforced ldIensss Which
Injuries Business Of Nation-Nsees-
sity Of Action Denied by No One
Becomes Live Question.
Especial Correspondence

lSpeClal COTTeSpOHuelCc.J
Washington, March 1.-The COM
mittee is convinced that 1t is in the
power Of congress by immediate &C
ton, which should be taken before an
other season of unemployment is upon
us, to alleviate to a large extent the
appalling situation that periodically
confronts the country by reason Of un-
employment and earnestly urges the
immediate attention Of congress there
to-
This Is the conclusion by the house
committee on labor in a report sub
mitted to the house on, the Macdonald
bill for national employment bureau.
The committee favors this bill.
Although it is obviously out Of the
question for such a bill to be passed
by congress before March 4, there is
little doubt it will become live propo-
sition in the next session Of congress.
If there is an extra session. 1t will
probably come up then.
The subject Of the government TAX
ing steps to provide for finding en-
ployment for the unemployed has been
long discussed but little progress has
been made in solving the problem.
Something, indeed, has been done thru
the division Of information Of the de-
partment of labor to find jobs for i'm
migrants Bit there is much wider
field to be filed.
Macdonald Bill Provisions.
The Macdonald bill creates in the
department of labor a national en-
ployment bureau, headed by COM
missioner of employment at $4,000 a
year 1t will be the province Of such
bureau under direction Of the secretary
Of labor, to provide facilities whereby
employers may obtain the services Of
persons seeking employment, and per-
sons seeking employment may obtain
employment; to provide for giving
publicity to applications and demands
for employees and applications and
demands for employment, and
to procure and disseminate such
information on industrial conditions as
may be pertinent to the purposes Of
this act"
Applications and demands for en-
employment shall contain declaration
whether strike or lockout is in prog
ress in the establishment where the
work is to be done. The plan con-
contemplates establishment by. the
bureau in such places as seem de-
sirable free labor exchanges. The COM
missioner of employment may assist
and cooperate with state or other
authorized labor exchanges.
An important provision Of the bill is
that the postmaster general Is author
lied and directed to extend to the
secretary OF labor the use Of the post
offices and postal facilities to help in
carrying out the measure.
Necessity Undenied.
In the course of it's report, the house
committee on labor says:
THE necessity for legislation Of this
character is denied by none; and, in
deed, the increasing menace Of the
situation in regard to unemployment at
certain seasons Of the year is so APP
parent that all students of the ques-
ton agree that some remedy must be
found. It is also agreed that the prob
lem can not be handled efficiently ex-
cept by an agency having a power and
scope OF a national bureau, since 1t is
an interstate problem and utterly be-
You'd the power OF the individual states
to cope with, although it is believed
that the national bureau can cooper
ate with the state institutions OF
like character, and the bill makes pro-
vision for such cooperation"