The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-26
BRANCH OFFICE FOR EMPLOYMENT
 IS ESTABLISHED Federal Bureau Opened at 303 Fairfield Avenue to
 Direct Labor. BRINGS LABORER TO THE EMPLOYER Under Direction of U. S. De- partment of Labor and
 Defense Council.

A. W. Burritt of the Burritt Lum- Der Co.,, has been placed in charge of the branch employment bureau established at S03 Fairfield avenua, under the direction of the Depart ment of Labor and the Council of De- fance. Its purpose will be to bring thew orker and the employer to- gether, and MT. Burritt announces his intention of doing everything pos sible to make it valuable to both workers and employers in this sec tion of the country.
 The United States Department of Labor working with the Connecticut State Council of Defense operating through the Connecticut state office at Hartford, have established a branch office of the United States Employ ment Service in Bridgeport, at 303 Fairfield avenue.
 The United States Employment Service was established in 1907 by the Department of Commerce and Labor. It was enlarged and continued when in 1913 the Department of La bor was created. Last January it was made a separate and distinct arm of the Department of Labor, and was reorganized and expanded to serve as the Nations war labor mobilizing, | and distributing machine. During the last fiscal year the Elm ployment Service directed approxi- mately 45S,OOO persons to employ ment. It is now directing an aver age of 100000 persons monthly, and this number shortly will be multi piled. More than 30,O00 employers | now are calling upon the Employ ment Service each month, and this number is growing.
 Since it's reorganization three months ago, the Employment Service has more than doubled it's branch of l fees, which are serving virtually ev- cry industrial district. New offices are being opened daily, and to date | operation.
 The branch offices receive app1ica- tions for labor from employers and endeavor to fill them from the un- employed. Each applicant for employ ment is carefully examined as to his | fitness for a particular job in order | that no man power or time may be l lost by sending the wrong man to a | position.
 The Employment Service is in i'm mediate and authoritive touch with the labor situation and employment conditions in every part of the i country. Through the branch offices, the main office at Washington is daily lH fn all shortage or surplus of workers in specific trades in each industrial cen | ter.
 | Nearly 100 industrial centers are covered by these daily reports. In addition to the daily reports, the branch offices make weekly reports on the farm labor situation in their 1 districts and general reports of the following:
 Number and character of applica- tions for workers and for jobs; the number directed to employment and the number actually placed.
 Specific trades in which there are marked shortages or surpluses of la bor.
 Housing conditions and opportun- ities for workers to obtain living ac- commodations.
 Attitude of employers and employees in each locality, with special reference to the extent to which they coop crate with the local branch of the Employment Service.
 The daily and weekly reports from the branch offices at 303 Fairfield avenue where all services are free.
 The labor shortage problem is chiefly one of distribution. The Elm ployment Service has been made the official machinery for such distribu- ton and it has adequate facilities tc meet demands made upon it; but its efficiency and scope of activity is linn tied by the extent to which employ CTS use it. The sooner all employ CTS cooperate with the Employment Service, the sooner there will be a distribution of the available labor as satisfactory as these abnormal times will permit.