The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-13
Labor Bureau Here
 Denies Hindering
 Arms Manufacture
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CContirued from Page 1.) ly but also very large numbers who are not exactly skilled tradesmen but are quite competent to run a machine that works automatically Ihe character of the men as a rule is of Q high standard, as evinced by the very fact of their giving up a well paid job which they may have had for years, just for the sake of honor and con science.
 The principal object of this office is to place the applicants For this req son I need the cooperation of the em- pIoyers and I have appealed to them again and again to notify me of any vacancies they might have to fill A fair number have even gone so far as creating positions on purpose to help our cause. I Should not try to solicit labor for an employer, but it is my best aim to bring the men applying for work in touch with such employ CTS whose vacancies they are apt to fill, to the best advantage mutually.
 We have from. the outset endeavored to .co-operate with other similar insd- tutions on mutual basis and have obtained good results in some in stances.
 Some time ago I called on the Fed eral Department of Labor in Wash- gington. In conseduence we could set up quite satisfactory relations with Il.l B.. where MT Green is entirely falling in with our views and has on various oe- -easions helped us to place men in DO sitions available to the Barge Office
 have arranged with the Salvation Army hotel in the Rewefy that I can send men there with lodging and meal tickets for which pay in monthly ae- count; also the Municipal Lodging House has. at times been similarly .celled into Eeaaisition-
 The bureau plans by some means to help tide over the inevitable interval between two ennployments. Also railway fares are provided, as in 2 great many eases the new place is locally more or less distant from the one given up, and many of the appn- eants are not in a position to pay for their own transpertation.s Such pe- cunfary aid is always considered as a loan, to be repaid whenever circunn- stances may permit.
 With larger places, such as facto- ries, can as a rule commend to the agreement that they deduct weekly amounts from the mems wages to cover my advances made by me, such as railway fares or other small loans Of course in every case I get a writ ten agreeIpent from the men before hand, pointing out to them that others may have the benefit of the same money at a later period I1l1 oufGau keeps ian eXacT register of all applicants, filling out in all eases certain application form with all necessary questions. so that in all eases of an applicant not being placed at once, or reporting a second tine all informa3ion about him is at once at hand. According to the registration statistical returns are continually be- ing kept, giving total numbers of ap- plieants and those placed. but also special records for the different trades and occupations.
 The organizatfon is daily assuming greater dimensions and is constantly widening it's sphere.
 Branch ofAces have already been es- tahlished at:
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 Hhsladeiphia. | Naschold.s a1o New street.
 Pittgburgh, pr " zaeharias. Hart5e tofice building.
 Chicago, Dr. M Niven. 154 West Randolph street
 c1aveland C. wehner. Columbia building.
 And will he set up i11l Cincinnati in the near future All these offices are conducted in the same spirit and after the same methods
 So far over 2.00s applicants have been received of which 80 per cent l have been placed, Th German and I sAustro-Hung garian Labor Inforrna ton Bureau is strictly charitable organ I izat1on.
 HANS LIBBAU.