Montana labor news., 1938-12-22
Harrington Enter s'M
Guests in Emplt Eheni
Offices on CT gite 81.

Montana's model ic employ
ment office located e Lewisohn
building, 30 West G e street, was
opened for inspect o the people
of Butte on Satur~- December II.
The offices of the service were for
merly located on the third floor of
the Lewisohn building, Mr.. James
J. Harrington, district manager OF
the Montana State Employment
Service and chief of the Butte office,
announced that the staff played host
to many visitors and all were en-
thusiastic in their praise.
The Montana State Employment
Service is affiliated with the United
States Employment Service and is
a division of the Unemployment
Compensation Commission. District
offices of the commission also are
located in the same quarters with
Mr.. o. E. Bourck as field auditor.
Butte's public employment office
is one of the finest in the west, ac-
cording to Mr.. Harrington and is in
keeping with its Importance in
serving the largest city of the state.
New quarters are finished in black
and cream with steel counters and
filing equipment and separate inter-
viewing booths for mel and women.
Construction work on the new quar-
tiers was done by Cahill-Mooney
Company, decorations and interior
finishings by the Ellis Paint Com
pany, new indirect ray lighting fix
lures by the Independent Electric
Company, plumbing by Drynan, and
venetian blinds, curtains and floor
furnishings by the Baxter Furniture
Company, all Butte firms. Steel
counters and files were supplied by
the Scott Typewriter Company of
Helena on bids through the state
purchasing agent.
Butte is the district office for seven
counties, including Silver Bow,
Beaverhead, Deer Lodge, Granite,
Jefferson, Madison and Powell.
County offices are maintained in all
except Jefferson county and are
under the direct supervision of Dis
trict Manager Harrington.
The personnel of the Butte office
was appointed as a result of merit
examinations held under the jurisz
diction of the Department of Labor
at Helena during October and No
vember, 1887, and includes John T..
Hanley, senior interviewer; Thomas
Dunstan, statistician; Fred A.Lehn,
veterans representative and place
ment officer; Karl j. Harvey, inter-
viewer and assistant Istatistician;
Janet Harrington, interviewer and
women's placement officer; Geral-
dine Sullivan, stenographer and re-
%ceptionist; Mary M Mccarthy
s~tenographer. iNHI/
Provision has been made by the
Montana Unemployment Commits
sion for the taking of unemploy-
ment benefit claims when Montana
starts making payments next July
first. At the present time Mr.. Har-
rington says, there are about IN, 900.
employment workers in Silver Bow
county who are accommodating bene-
fits for the first time when they
may lose their jobs. The Montana
State Employment Service functions
as a unit in the payment of I'M
employed benefits as all persons re-
ceiving such benefits must report
first at the employment office. I'm
employed benefits, under the present
state law, will be at the maximum
rate of SIS per week or one-half of
the weekly earnings of the workers
during the base periods. This base
period covers the nine quarters pre-
ceding July l, 1899. The maximum
payments are $240 divided over a
period of sixteen weeks.
The Butte office is said to be
ideally situated with regard to
proximity to the center of business
activity in the city. The layout has
been drawn under the latest ap-
proval and plans of the United
States Department of Labor, and
Butte firms have performed an ex-
ceptionally fine piece of work under
their contracts.
AS new offices are located in other
cities of the state, the Butte office
will be used as a model.