Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1910 — WORK OF PEETZ EARNS PRAISES [ARTICLE]

WORK OF PEETZ EARNS PRAISES

Labor Men Are Strong In lining Statistician’s Election. LABOR BUREAU MAKES GOOD Author of Law and Enforcer of Statute la Given Credit For Success of Beneficent Bureau Where Poor Man May Obtain Help to Land Job and Be Safe From Swindlers Who Formerly Preyed Upon Him. One of the strong men on the Republican state ticket, because of his expert fitness for office, and because of his popularity, is J. L. Peetz, state statistician. Mr. Peetz is assured of re-election because he has proved his ability and his experience is of large value to the state. His opponent not only is inexperienced, but is admitteclly not qualified for the important post tion of statistician. Mr. Peetz shows unexpected strength as a vote-getter among the labor men of the state as well as among the farmers and business men. There’s a reason. Mr. Peetz drew the bill under which the Free Employment Bureau was created. Labor men assisted in preparing this bill and in urging its enactment. Mr. Peetz, without an extra appropriation from the state, has put the bureau in operation, has conducted it with an eye to the interests of needy laborers, and has proved the wisdom and the value of the new system. In the first nine months of the operation of the bureau, jobs were obtained for 1,527 persons. Many of these were the parents of families in destitute circumstances. Not only did the free bureau save these poor people many thousands of dollars in fees, in the aggregate, but the operation of the bureau means many thousands saved to the taxpayers. Scores of families have been saved from charity and have been made independent through the beneficence of the free employment bureau. Along the same reform line as the law, also urged by Mr. Peetz, for the regulation of private employment agencies. Fees have been fixed by this law, licenses have been required, and in several cases Mr. Peetz has sent swindlers to jail for defrauding laborers under pretense of obtaining employment for them.