New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-08-08
SAFETY BOARD Is
HELPING FARMERS
MINNESOTA COMMISSION HAS
OPENED FREE EMPLOYMENT
BUREAU.
MEN WILL BE FURNISHED FOR
HARVEST FIELDS ANYWHERE
IN STATE. *..

Major w. c. Handy of the publicity
department of the Minnesota Public
Safety commission describes the aims of
the commission in assisting farmers in
securing labor, as follows:
ION June IL the commission opened a
free employment bureau at 1O1 Second
street south, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
This office has been in active operation
for more than month under the direc-
ton of Don D. .Lescohier, formerly of
the State Labor Department, and has
been of much service. It is now finding
men for an average of more than one
hundred jobs a day; one day last week
it found men for more than two hundred
jobs.
This bureau will be of enormous
benefit to the farmers of Minnesota if
the farmers themselves will exercise
ordinary foresight and precaution. AS
the harvest progresses it is plain more
men will be wanted, so it behooves the
intelligent farmer to get ready in ad-
vance and arrange for enough help to
save his crops.
Counties Must Help.
1t will, of course, be more satisfactory
to the farmer and to the labor bureau if
every county was able to supply it's own
demand by furnishing work for people
living in that county. In many counties
of the state this is possible; in others it is
impossible. The labor bureau will do
everything within it's power, but of
course must not be expected to &C.
complish the impossible. To do good
work the bureau must have the intelligent
cooperate jon of the farmers and the
business must be conducted along COM
mon sense lines.
One of the first requirements is that
application for laborers to the bureau
must come thru the county director of
the Public Safety Commission, or the
chairman of the County Labor Com
mittee residing in the county where the
laborer is needed. It is plain that the
bureau cannot deal directly with in
dividual farmers since it can by no
possibility know the responsibility of
every farmer living within the state.
Laborers cannot be sent from the
Twin Cities without some responsible
assurance that they will find work at
the end Of an expensive railroad Journey
Again the farmers must not expect to
get labor at prices prevailing several
years ago. Competent men cannot be
! expected to work for less money in a
strange place than they can earn in their
+! own home town,
Men Have Experience.
| The men in charge of the free en-
ployment bureau established by the
Safety Commission have had much
experience in their work and will use
every effort to send laborers competent
to fill reasonable demands of the farmers
In other words, precaution will be taken
not to send an office man do to farm
work, or farm hand to fill an office
position. In spite Of all efforts it is con.
ceivable the labor bureau employees
cannot have sufficient knowledge of the
labor requirements to guarantee to senc
perfect men.
If farmers will estimate Immediately
just what help they will need and will
notify the county director and save
time in advance of the need it is con
fdently expected that the free labo,
bureau will be of almost unestimately
benefit to the state of Minnesota ,ane
thereby to the activities of the natio,
as whole. {,