Arizona republican., 1921-01-26

commissions, but even so business is slow. Much as they would like to, under present conditions they cannot themselves create the jobs. The most that the mission and St Marks chapel have been able to place in a day is Is, and they are rather proud of this record
 The New York State Employment Bureau has a branch on West Forty
 Sixth street. where jobs are supplied free of charge when there are any 10 supply, but the number of men placed by this organization on the day the reporter visited 1t, was just three Yet all day long, lines of men stood in patient evaporation before the various sections of the office, marked Hotel and Restaurant" Skilled Labor" and
 Clerks hoping for a word of encour- agement- The demand for experienced clerks still exists in febble way, one of the secretaries explained, but the other two departments for the past few weeks have had practically noth- 1 ing.
 What is your hne?" inquired so,
 cial service worker of a tall, gaunt and l haggard- faced mar. as he left the waiting group and started for the door. Drill press operator" he replied duly.
 He continued to ariswer the social
 workers questions in the same dull 1 tired voice Yes, he was married, ne 1 said Five children. One of them had
 diphtheria. His wife was out of a 1 job, too Yes, he had tried to get some 1 thing else, but the agency had noth- ing They said they would let him know if a request came for drill 1 press operator. In the meantime ne was scrubbing floors in a high school at night, but it did not pay enough 10 keep the family.
 Unreliable Agencies
 The social worker wrote something
 on a card and gave it to the man,
 whose face then assumed more hopeful expression. but as loud dis pute arose in the hotel and restaurant section of the office, at this critical moment, the reporter was compelled to pass up the finale of this incident Nearby, few minutes later, one job hunter was explaining to another 1 that he had tried every pay agency on | Sixth avenue and that at last he had | discovered one that offered a job as truck driver. But the man in charge wanted SS for the address of the job. So there was nothin' doin' on that, the first jcb-hunter explained em- phaticaily. You can't .s. trust t, them m 2 work one day, and get fired the next ? and then where's your eight bucks7 7 In these normal times. are various ] disinterested employment agencies,
 which played such an important part , during the war;. are consplcuously I missing. Most keenly missed of all are , the offices of the United States De nartnent of Labor that did so much , l co straighten out labor turnovers and complications two years ago. Gone
 too, are the agencies of the Knights oi Columbus. the Y. NJ. c. A, and the other valiant rooters for overseas ser
 vice, who were going to do so much for the boys when they came home [ Many of these men who are walking
 the streets in search of work arc : scarcely out of khaki; some of then stiu wear their khaki shirts and Epira- o puttees. But people do not notice tha'
 now.
 The lack of free employment agen- l. cies is a serious handicap for the mar T with only a few dollars left in hi 2 pocket The pay agencies are taking , advantage of this golden opportunity 2 to charge high commissions, and ever ? then, according to the testimony Q the job hunters, few of them are relt able For the men to go direct to tn Q factories and hotels and offices ant = department stores seeking work i t merely a waste of time and sho, 0 leather. Recent canvasses have show s that not q single job is to be had il
 any of these quarters.
 o Only Accountants Wanted v In fact, the only class of workers fo q which there Is stiu an active deman' - is accountants Requests for auditor Y and assistant accountants are still B
 great that there are not nearly enougl
 ! to go around. This is because of tn
 large number of New York firms whtcl u have lost goods and money in tn . crime wave and have to have thei e books strengthened out.
 It seems that when a crook robs store he not only does much damag n to the stock but to the books as wei l. Missing stock palys havoc with - firms bookkeeping So as long as tn e crooks keep up their work. at least ac ol countants will have jobs.