The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-02
Kansas Director win Keep EN-
pIOyment Bureau Going.
Harvest Hand Situation Still
Acute, Kelley Announces.
HOPE LIES IN OKLAHOMA
More Men Are Now Coming
From That State.
1900 Men Sent Out of Kansas
City Tuesday.

J. VIII Kelley. federal employment
director for Kansas, received teIe-
gram this morning from J. B. Dens-
more, director general of the United
states federal employment bureau,
counterma nding the order to discon-
unue federal employment bureaus and
lnstructing him to keep all offices in
Kansas open and to disregard all wire
orders to the contrary. This new or
der was made possible by final action
on the part of congress in providing
: money for carrying on the work.
Kelley announces that all offices
and all field men in Kansas will be
kept at work supplying the farmers
with harvest hands. The soldier work
OF the bureau also will be continued.
Altho the order received Tuesday to
discontinue the service interfered with
reports, Kelley said today that the
harvest hand problem in Kansas is
stu causing great concern in the west
ern part OF the state. IL is reported
that more men are coming into the
state from oklahoma. but only about
1900 were moved thru Kansas City
Tuesday. About sixty men were ham
died thru Topeka this morning up to
$3.50 o'clock
As far north rs the Nebraska line
the hum OF the binder is heard in the
waving golden ocean of grain and in
the southern counties there is actual
aAlAtIAHk lQf want OF men.
fortunately, the Oklahoma harvest
Is almost over and already men are
beginning to drift into the southern
counties of Kansas The end OF the
Oklahoma harvest should release some
5000 or 1000 men. which will relieve
the situation here to a very great ex-
ten. This influx OF workers. together
With the men the employment bureaus
can ship into the northern counties.
should practically take care of the sit
uatop. oltho there Is little danger of
getting too many men into the state.
Inc present scarcity of laborers, the
tremendous extent of the wheat acre
age ana the premature ripening OF the
grain owing to hot weather render
quick action necessary to eliminate
loss 80 II Is certain that all the men
who come into-the state can be used.
whether the employment service
Will be continued after the harvest is
over Is merely matter of conjecture,
the fight in congress over the measure
apparently taking the most bitter
form. But the wheat growers are at
leasI under the present announce
ment assured the assistance of the
government during the rush days of
the harvest season.
Must Save Crop i'm Ten Days.
Kansas City. Mo, July 2.-The rec
ord kansas wheat crop may be saved
within the next ten days, according to
indications today.
Three-fourths Of the crop in eastern
Kansas is reported to have been har-
vested. releasing a large number of
workers for fields farther west A
minimum wage boost to so cents an
hour and board. together with clear
weather ahead. were reEs rded as big
assets to farmers now struggling to
save every one OF KANSAS 225,000.00
bushels OF wheat.
The Kansas City federal employ
ment bureau, threatened with aban-
Comment. will remain open. Expenses
VIII be provided from an emergency
fund. Bureaus at Wichita. Salina and
Hutchinson will remain open. main
tanned by a state fund and local cham
Der OF commerce.