Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1911 — Bringing Together Jobless and Job [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Bringing Together Jobless and Job

NEW YORK.—The Nntlonal Employment exchange, a private organisation in New York, In the first year and a b«if of its existence has learned * many things about the task M bringing together the Jobless man and the manless Job. It was established with a fund of >IOO.OOO contributed by a number of wealthy men to relieve the deplorable conditions of unemployment in New York city. Two separate exchanges are maintained, one to supply manual laborers, skilled and, unskilled, the other to enpply mercantile employes. During I*lo the demand for men to do manual work greatly exceeded Hie supply. Work for more than 4,000 was found in the city, in New York and other states. Many m jre could have been placed had the men been available. It cost fl Oflti .get each man his Job, over and above the small fee collected. Business depression this year has altered conditfons, and not so many positions are open, but it.ban been established as generally true that the man who It willing to do marual work. skilled or

unskilled, can And work if he wants It. There Is plenty of room for him. _ But not so in the mercantile bureau, for office help, salesmen and similar occupations. The number seeking work of this kind is many times larger than the number of possible places. Positions Were found for only 6tf out of 4,540 applicants and the cost of placing each one was sl6-40 more than the fge. Many of these snoeessful applicants "Were forced to accept employment at five or six dollars a week. New York ts flooded with a horde of young men and worn* en who want to do ogly “genteel" work, and thla drugging of. the mar ket has forced salaries which the average* applicant must accept far below a tab- Hring standard.