Putnam patriot., 1919-03-21
DISCONTINUE GOVT.
 LABOR BUREAU
Lack of Appropriation Makes It Necessary to Stop Free
 Service
Frank Coss, Who Has Had Charge Here, Left Putnam Tuesday For
 Home

There will be no more free govern ment employment service at the Chamber of Commerce rooms. The work has been discontinued on ae- count of lack of funls due to the fact that no appropriation was made by Congress. Frank Coss who has been in charge of the work here, re- ceived a notification that the work " 9uld be discontinued uuiess ne could sec ,,is wa3 Gear to rer1ain or duty at the nominal salary of one collar per year. Mir. Coss could not see his way clear to Gc this.
 The only feature of the service left is weekly telegraphic reports of labor conditions which will be in charge of Rev c. c. s. MacKay of the Baptist church
 Mir Coss came to Putnam from Birmingham the first of September last. He came as chairman of the community labor board and organizer of the public service reserve. The object was to secure and supply man power for the anI1,unition factories, getting men from nou essential work to TO to the large munitions plants of the state
 After the signing of the armistice Mr. Coss became examiner in charge of the United States employment ser vice, but still letaining the chairman ship cf the community labor board. The territory covered by Mir. Coss was the eastern half of Windham county from Plainfeld and Canter- bury to the south to the Massachu- sets line to the north. In this dis trict it is estimated that there are be- tween ten and eleven thousand en- ployes.
 When MT. Coss called to bid The Patriot good bye he was asked what his impression was of Putnam and the rest of the district. Mir Coss said: 'T am proud and pleased at the treatment I have received at the hands of the Putnam people and the people of this district. have been treated most cordially by everybody and have made some fast friends. sincerely regret leaving Putnam. The manufacturers have made it easy for me by their hearty cooperation. They have almost invariably made places for returned soldiers"
 While MT. Coss praises the people of the district for their kindness to him, those who know MT Coss know that it was his own personality, di- plomacy and pleasant manner that was at least to some degree q factor in his warm welcome. He did not rush in and antagonize those with whom he was to have business deal ines He was vitally interested in the patriotic duty he was doing both dur ing and after the fighting ceased on the other side. His sympathy was with the boys who came back and his interest in each individual case was personal as well as one of the duties of his position. He made others feel that the boys deserved jobs and he had little. trouble in placing those who appealed to him for work It is to be regretted that the office had to be given up through lack of funds to carry on the work, for the local labor board was accomplishing a great deal of good and was benefit to both employer and employe. Putnam would also be the gainer by having such d man as Mir. Coss in the city.
 MT. Coss has been engaged in man. ufacturing all of his life. During the unsettled times he did not feel like investing his money in any enterprise but now he expects to enter the manu- featuring field again. He left for his home in Birmingham on Tuesday and expects to continue to make that place his home.