Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-20
GOVERNMENT To
CONTINUE FREE
LABOR BUREAUS
Service Established Soon After
Outbreak of War viii Be
Maintained in the Future, Is
Announcement Made,

The free employment service in
augurated by the government at the
outset of the war is not going TO be dis
continued, now that peace is in sight,
but will be maintained is the word
reaching the state director of the de-
partment of labor here. This service
was largely instrumental in solving
the labor problem in the United States
during the last eighteen months. pro-
viding as it did the machinery for
placing the man or woman who was
looking for employment in touch with
the employer who was seeking help.
Instead of those looking for work hav-
ing to run around the country until
they found it, the government brought
the man and the job together.
With the signing of the armistice
and the disseminating of the bulk of
the orders for war materials, it natur-
ally follows that many workers Iare
going to be thrown out of employ
ment until conditions can adjust them
selves. The government, realizing that
some systematic plan must be fol-
lowed to bring the man and the Job
together, even in peace times, II the
labor situation Is to be properly han
died, has arranged to maintain its eff
ficient employment service throughout
the country.
Survey of Labor Conditions.
Beginning at once, each state direc-
tor will receive monthly report from
each county director survey of la
Dor conditions. The intention of this
survey is to determine how many men
or women are seeking employment,
and what positions they are capable
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are needed by factories, on farms and
in all other lines of endeavor. In 9TH
err words, there may be surplus of
help in some county in New Mexico,
while in another county there may he
a shortage of this particular class of
help Arrangements can be made to
send the help where it is needed Or,
if the help is not needed in this state,
arrangements will be made TO send it
to some other state. Then, again, If
New Mexico is short of help and it
cannot be gotten here, relief can be
gotten from some other state. Statis-
tics showing the labor conditions in
each state will be forwarded to the
United States department of labor at
washington, in order that the officials
there may keep in touch with the sit
uation and arrange to transfer the
surplus workers to points where they
are needed.
This service in the future, as in the
past, win be absolutely free to the en-
ploycr and the worker.
Recruiting Discontinued.
In this Connection, the employment
service here has been notified by the
department of labor that the Dupont
Powder company will discontinue re-
cruiting labor in New Mexico for their
powder plant at Nashville, Tenn.
That the cessation of hostilities will
throw a large number OF clerks and
stenographers out of employment, is
evidenced by telegram to the state
director Of the federal employment
service here, dated at washington yes
terday and reading as follows:
Discontinue stenographic registra-
ton for Washington. Keep in touch
with local opportunities so as to assist
in finding for stenographers and
clerks being released here and re-
turning home"
One of the objects of the free en-
ployment service will he to find en-
ployment for these stenographers and
clerks, as we'll as all other workers
who are thrown out of work as re-
suit of the ending of the war.