Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1911 — City Finds Jobs for the Unemployed [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

City Finds Jobs for the Unemployed

KANSAS CITY. Kan.—a municipal employment bureau, operated under the direct supervision of tbe city commissioners, which will furnish free jobs to applicants, has been started here. . Tbe employment bureau is just as much a part of the city's business as the street department, fire department ior any other city department, and it is popular with the public. The city employment bureau has been in existence only a short while, but In that time a hundred men and women have been given jobs and the names of 200 more who want work have been received and filed In the order of their presentation, to be sent to positions among employers who Want workers are found. The bureau will furnish positions of any kind to men or women

James Eads How of St. Loqls. national president of the Brotherhood Welfare Association, and general champion of the rights of tbe unemployed. paraded through the streets of Kansas City,- Mo., several days ago with several hundred of hls followers and went to the city hall, where they asked the mayor for work. They said that the city should provide employment for all men who wanted to work. The mayor of Kansas City, Mo., told tbe jobless marchers that bg bad no jobs to give to them and he did not see how the city could help them out. This set the Kansas City (Kan.) commissioners to thinking and they got busy. . It Is not only to compel tbe vagrants to go to work that the municipal employment bureau has been established, and the jobs it furnishes are not restricted to this class. Already the buredp has found positions for eight stenographers, two of them in the city employ. About a doxen carpenters have been givenwork through the bureau, and a& positions for stone masona are open wad ready to be filled by the commissioners when the weathei permits.