The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-08-31
MEETING OF PUBLIC
EMPLOYMENT OFFICES

Helu III DulIdlOs July ~ anu 81,
1916, have just appeared as Bulle-
tin 220 of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the U. S. Department
of Labor. The purpose of this as
ISOLATION is to study the admins
trative details of the employment
business and seek to improve methods
and secure uniformity and co-opera
ton among the employment offices
of the country.
The association is composed of
men actively engaged in managing
or administering employment bust
ness. Through its efforts systems
of records and methods of manage
ment have been improved and made
more uniform, and in some cases
the officers of the association have
assisted in drafting public employ
ment office laws.
Two important developments of
the fourth annual meeting were G)
the adoption of two resolutions, one
placing the association on record in
favor of the establishment of ma
tional employment bureau, and the
other requesting the United States
Commissioner of Labor Statistics to
edit and publish as bulletin the
proceedings of the meeting; and
| GU the selection of a committee on
standardization, with the United
| States Commissioner of Labor Sta
tistics as chairman, for the purpose
of drawing up a system of uniform
records and formulating standard
definitions of terms and methods of
work which shall be uniform in the
figures and reports from all the
states. 1t is the duty of this COM
mittee to select from all the sys-
TENS and methods now in use the
best and most efficient, and its re-
port at the next annual meeting at
Milwaukee on September 20 and 81,
1917, will be the most important
matter on which the association will
have to act.
An address was made by Hon.
Royal Meeker, United States COM
missioner of Labor Statistics, on
What records should be kept by
public employment offices and how
they should be used" He empha-
sized the necessity of keeping such
records as, when published, will give
the public accurate and complete in
formation as to the work done by
the public employment offices
| throughout the country and the
cost of condition of methods of keep
ing records The desirability of uni
form definitions, standards and
forms was strongly urged.
The Secretary of Labor, Hon w:
B. Wilson, in an address on a ma
tional system of employment Of
fees, discussed the urgent need for
public employment offices and show
ed the advantage which could be
secured by a national employment
bureau cooperating with state and
municipal bureaus, helping to CO.
ordinate the work between the diff
terent states and cities of the coun-
try.
Other addresses at the conference
dwelt upon the Importance of bust
ness efficiency in public~ employment
offices; the desirability of co-opera-
ton among federal, state land city
employment bureaus; the advantages
to be gained by creating national
labor reserve board to organize all
the employment offices in the coun-
| try into one system of labor ex-
changes and put into effect sthe
remedies that may be found for I'M
mems department of public employ
ment offices and the special prob
! lens to be met therein; and the re-
lation between labor organizations
and public employment offices and
how they may be mutually helpful.
Vocational education and its bear
ing upon employment problems were
given consideration in addresses COW
ering such subjects as vocational
education and juvenile placement de-
partments, vocational guidance as
public school function, vocational
guidance and the juvenile placement
work of public labor exchange, and
cooperation between employers and
the schools in vocational guidance.