Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-06
WOMAN MAY Be MADE
j. s. JOB DIRECTOR
Candidate for Federal Assistant
Post Is Here-Pleads for
Continuance of Service
BILL NOW IN CONGRESS

II Congress passes bill which was
introduced this week, bill officially
listed as H. r.. 1905, woman will be
assistant director general of the United
States employment service, of the De-
partment of Labor.
The woman director will be Mrs.
Margaretta Nenle. She came to Phila-
delphia for few hours yesterday from
her busy Office at Washington to at
tend one of the sessions of the National
Women's Trade Union League, in ses-
sion here. The league is interested in
the passage of the bill.
Unless Congress speedily provides
money for the maintenance of this serv-
ice it must be curtaied in size or be
discontinued.
Mrs. Neale would not talk about the
bill. But she did tell of some of the
work that the service rendered during
the war, and since the signing of the
armistice. Mrs. Neale was in charge
of the feminine employment work.
Throughout the country offices for wom-
en- as we'll as for men are maintained
in principal cities, in charge of en-
ployment experts. The service is free.
1t has found jobs for thousands of men
and women.
The task of the employment service
has changed in character since the sign
ing of the armistice, Mrs. Neale said.
During the war the job was to find
workers Since the armistice it is to
find work.
The employment service has been
fighting for it's life for several months.
Congress adjourned without making a
new appropriation for its maintenance.
A deficiency bill introduced to meet its
most urgent needs was thrown out on
n point of order. Since the first of the
year the service has been maintained at
its original size, principally because
labor organizations and civic societies
gave financial aid. Unless Congress
supplies needed funds by July /, the
working force will have TO be cut to
skeleton proportions.
The service is maintaining 800 Offices.
Besides" said Mrs. Neale, "the
employment service is CO operating with
every agency which is at work getting
job for soldiers. All the welfare or
CARNATIONS interested in this great un-
dertaking are operating their employ
ment bureaus under the name of the
United States employment service.
''Since the signing of the armistice
the United States employment service
mems and women's divisions to
gether-have placed 2,136,717 work
ers in positions throughout the coun
try. The average number for whom
jobs were obtained every week was
10000.
"The federal service has filled very
distinct need in the United States. Less
than one third of the states have theil
own employment agencies.
''The cost saved to the workers Of
the country through the medium of thu
federal agency is about 500 900 day
IAN interesting feature of the work
for soldiers and sailors is that agents are
constantly active in France and the
occupied territory of Germany, listing
the needs of service men soon to re-
turn home. We get busy then and try
to have jobs ready for them, in their
own cities, by the time they return.
Enemies of the federal employment
service have made the charge that it is
, maintained in the interest of unior
labor. This is not true. The union
, man does not usually need the aid Of
the service. 1t is boon to the un
, organized workers of the country who
otherwise would resort to the privat,
employment agencies. Union labor ia
5 vors the maintenance of the fedora
: service because it is to labor's best in
terest to keep all the workers, organized
or unorganized, in steady and well pay
ing employment"