El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-22

NE Of the governments good works Is its national
4 free employment agency, officially known as the
- division Of information of the bureau Of immigration
Of department Of labor. It finds Job for the man
who needs and employees for the man with
vacancies to be filled In neither case IS Zee attached
The government employment bureau has not been long N
operation and comparatively little has been printed about
It. Yet It does great deal to reduce unemployment
throughout country supply labor where shortages
exist It viii be to e Paso advantage to learn more
the employment bureau and work to get branch
Of It established here
Last month received 1910 requests from employers
64Os people desired employees and It received 0s66
applications from people wanting work Of these latter,
1920 referred TO employers and 3s113 actually
employed. If the ratio maintained throughout
the year. would furnishing employment to 100000
people, in round numbers There So stations IN the
United States from which reports received By this
either that branche the department Of labor
maintained there to attend TO the employment Work
exclusively that the work is handled by stations Of the
immigration service addition to its other activities
Naturally New York city figures strongly IN the
of applications received and in the number Of
poyes furnished It's size industries and the magnitude
its working population account for that Outside Of
New York city the employment bureau expends more Of
its activities In the state Of Washington than anywhere
else although Of COURSE finds fertile field work IN
the factory districts Of the east and south generally
Washington state has ten stations making reports, as
against four for all Of California
Texas, with stations at Galveston FL PasO and Fort
Worth, figures very inconspcuousy the July report
Nothing done IN e Paso, either applications for
help furnishing labor to the unemployed. From Fort
Worth no report been up the time Of the
preparation Of the current bulletin from the department
labor; while for Galveston, eight and three
women total Of H. were furnished employment.
In e Paso the work IS Handicapped by the fact that
separate branch Of the employment bureau has been
established here It is nominaIy the hands Of the i
grafton service and the immigration officials and employees
DO the best they with It. However they are busy
with their duties and naturally lack the available
time give the best attention to the matter OF employ
ment. An inspector detailed, for month two IN
which he could be spared, look after the employment
agency and nothing else About the time he had his work
veil organized and ready to begin showing results was
necessary to discontinue the agency work separate
affair.
altogether likely that If Jack Happier while he is
Washington present the matter to the attention
Of secretary " B. Wilson of the department Of labor,
Of the employment bureau would be opened here
labor department very anxious the bureau to
Of the service to the country and TO make
strong showing possible Branches have been opened
IN many other cities where the problems Of employment
both of securing work and Of furnishing laboers to
Doyers are hardly important FL Paso branch
here would be great convenience
In Fl Paso, branch Of the government agency could
perform important service by taking Of employ
ment for women, along with its other activities. If
housewife wants servants If hotel wants five
chambemaids; If restaurant wants dozen wait