The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-19
TO HELP FARMER
Free Federal Labor Bureau Is
Opened in Topeka.
c. I'll. banner, Employment
Agent, Put in Charge.
WILL SEND HANDS TO FARMS
W. l.. O'Brien viii Help Round
Up Workers.
Many Farmers Do Not Realize
Opportunities Offered Them.

For the convenience of farmers and
all other employers of labor the
United States department of labor
has opened a free labor and employ
ment bureau at H. East Fifth street
under direction of c. H. Danner, en-
ployment agent.
The aim OF this department is 10
clear the situation for the farmer
during the presen- labor shortage. 10
90 this effectively. Commissioner
banner says that it is necessary loi
the farmers and the other employers
e labor 10 cooperate to the Iuilest
possible extent with the office IL Is
the purp 1Se of the new labor ONCE "
f,-rnish labor for the railroads 'as d.
rected in a late order by secretary
NcAdoo. to find employment for girls
and women in offices and othel
places, to see that there is no shorl
age of hands, to bring in the harNes.
end in short to be prepared TO hleee
ali demands for labor that may come
in the ordinary course of the business
OF the ration.
HcIp All Farmers.
Just now the farmers do not seen
y, have very much idea of Just VIVA.
this office is expected to do ana VIVA
IL wants to do" explained g
s~rbev seem to have the idea that we
arc a kind of a figurehead ana nav
no sDeciaI duties to perform. ~
are entirely mistaken. If the FARMERS
of the state will just write IN 70 tn-S
office when they are ln- heeu VI MP I
81. 80 rcuch they will pay. and
Tiye the number of men they want
ne will be able to answer thelr can.
II is not alone at harvest une tll s,t
his department should be OF pehelit
IN the farmer in securing hanos' puI
AZ ali stages of the game and at an
Further than merely to meet the
,ahor situation for the farmer TINS OF
flee is going to have a new lildh "a
the outside next week 10 go aipu t
to the different employers Oh %
and, show them just how mucn II Is ~
their advantage to do away with their
nrivate employment departments anu
i1ee the facilities furnished them by
the government. w. l., o Brlen' lot
,,,er state labor commissioner. IS the
- Who is TO do this for us and it is
exDected that in his work on the street
he will come in contact with many
men who are out of work and in neeo
of job
Farmers Do Not Appreciate 1t.
To show how little use the farmers
are making of the adNahtdSes o1 Sc
cnring help thru this bureau there are
twenty-one applications now on file
in the office for work on farms ana
there are just three applications from
farmers asking for help. These f1g-
ures give one the impression that
there is no labor shortage due to the
war but Banner says that the situa-
ton is serious but that the farmers do
not seem to be awake to the fact that
the federal labor office is designed to
. meet just such situations.
Speaking of the help that will be
needed in the Kansas wheat fields
about July, Banner says that men are
already writing in from all over the
country asking for jobs in the har-
vest. One concern which has asked
for information on the work in the
harvest fields is Dartmouth college at
Hanover. y. H. The principal of this
school for boys said in his letter that
there are 1900 boys in Dartmouth
college under military age who are
anxious to do part of their bit On the
wheat fields of the western states.