Norwich bulletin., 1922-10-02
Humanity in Government
By James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor l BRINGING THE MAN TO THE JOB

d.. | BRINGING THE MAN TO THE JOB
 At no time is the American wage earner in such need of intelligent and effective attention to his welfare as when he is among the unemployed When the worker is out of g job, he is more than likely to become the victim of the fake employment agency, which fautens upon the needs of the unfortunate To aid the wage earner whom he is seeking employ ment congress authorized the establish nlent in the department of labor of the United States employment service. Un- der this authorization the employment service was directed to maintain a na- tional system of employment offices. and to coordinate the public employment of fees throughout the country by furnish ing and publishing information as to op- portunities for employment and by main taining system for clearing labor be- tween the several states.
 Under this act federal cooperation has been established with the state employ ment services of thirty-six and munich pal employment services in four other states, with the result that cooperative employment services have been main tained in forty states and 1T6 cities of the nation. Through the coordination of these federal state and municipal em ployment services, approximately 3o,000 people are registered for employment monthly, 170,ooo requests for help are received, 160,o0o referred and approxi- mately 155,0e0 placed. These place ments are made without charge to either | the employer or employe.
 1 Through these state and municipal eTn- l ployment services in cooperation with the 1 U. S. employment service, a system of | public employ offices throughout the country has been coordinated for the purpose of furnishing and publishing in- | formation as to opportunities for employ ment and maintaining system of clear ance of labor between the various states. i In addition to the maintenance of a l national system of coordination of public
 employment offices, the U. s. employment | service conducts an industrial employ 1 ment survey monthly, providing an ac- 1 curate index to employment conditions in the forty-eight states of the union, the leading sixty-five cities of major indus- | trial importance and three hundred fifty five cities of minor industrial importance The scope of this survey covers the fuc-
 tuations in employment In the fourteen
 basic industrial groups as set up by the United States census bureau. The organ ization necessary for the collection of these data consists of district directors situated in nine geographic divisions Of the country who have selected voluntary l agents located in each industrial center
 These agents have accepted the respon-
 sihility for the collection of information
 monthly concerning the number of work
 CTS of the pay roll in industries usually
 employing 800 or over" For the purpose
 of comparison the actual number oi
 workers on the pay roll are collected | kI- T. ar1fl1. ly. These volunteer agents have been az pointed special agents and representa-
 tives of their industries. These indus tries have been selected from diversified sections of the country and fncude thoss
 who usually employ 500 or over. Genera
 employment comment Is collected hy thu district directors from authoritative sources. supplemented by intelligent opin ; ion.
 This bulletin serves chambers q
 commerce, trade unions, large industria concerns railroads, employers of labor
 and the general public with systematic
 accurate and unbiased information whicl
 assists them in the distribution an,
 clearance of labor, and the expansion O business.
 For a number of years the Q. s. em : ployment service has maintained a farm labor bureau for the purpose of assist ing in caring for such crops as requir, especial seasonal labor help. In perform ing this service the farm labor bureal s has cooperated with the labor depart . ments of the different states. In many To callties where the bureau has directed 1t activities the agricultural association am
 county farm agents have been of grea
 assistance and have added materially t
 the efficiency and the effectiveness of tn
 work.