The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-11-13
Employment

New York.-The establishment of, a
free nationwide public employment
service, to be maintained by the states
in cooperation with the federal and
local governments. for the benefit of
men, women and juniors in all walks
of life, is recommended by the Rus
sell Sage Foundation inea 500 page re-,
port on employment methods, needs,
and agencies which was made public
here today as the, result of fve-year
study which took the foundations in
vestigators into more than 70 cities
of the United States and Canada.
The full report is being submitted
to President Coolidge and. to the gov
ernors of the states. The principal
recommendations of the report are
summarized as follows by Shelby M.
Harrison, director of the Department
of Surveys and Exhibits of the Russell
Sage Foundations, who was in charge
of the studies on which the report
is based:
That the federal government en-
courage and assist the states to main
tain adequate systems of public en-.
ployment Offices and to coordinate
these into an effective nationwide
service. ~
That the states administer and sup
port their own employment Offices,
subject to the terms of agreement
with the federal government. and
that the local governments participate
in, the management of the offices in
their community through representa-
ton on their local employment COM
mittee.
partisan character of the service, the
functions. to be performed by the fed
eral government be administered by
board appointed by and directly re-
sponsible to the President.
That the board consist of the secre-
tary of labor, the secretary of COM
merce and the secretary of agricul-
ture.
That a national council and local
employment committees representing
employers, workers, and possible other
allied interests be established as an
additional aid in securing neutrality
of administration as we'll as reputa-
.tion for such.
That the procedure of the service in
respect to demands for workers by
strike or lockout is in progress or is
pending, shall be such as, to guaran-
tee the neutrality of the service. Il
After discussing in detail the great.
variety of administrative systems
which have been proposed for ma
tional public employment service, the
Foundations reports says: 1.-THE
balance of weight belongs on the side
of combined federal-etate-local adj
ministration."
Discussing the performance of state
administration, the report says: Estate
control of public employment offices,
either singly or in cooperation with
local communities, has wrought no
miracles. Indeed it has been subject 1
to many Limitations, some Of which
have characterized municipal control
But whatever the shortcomings of
state administration, the fact remains
that Is states have established and
are now operating public employment
Offices. While the development of
efficient and scientific methods may
have been unduly delayed, there has
been much progress"
In the conclusion following the dis
cussion of aApurely federal versus a
combined federal state-local system
the report says:
whichever proves finally the more
desirable, an exclusively federal or a
federal statehood employment SER
vice, it is commonly conceded that the
former is not at present feasible; and
with this we are in agreement To
think that Congress. either now or in
the Immediately future, would appro-
pirate $1O,000,0OO fer an employment
service, an amount estimated as neces-
sary to provide an adequate basis, is
an idle dream. Expediency demands
combined federal-stats local admins
tration. We must begin with what we
have"