Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1916 — A PUBLIC SERVICE TRUE TO NAME [ARTICLE]

A PUBLIC SERVICE TRUE TO NAME

The United States Employment Service and Its Work For Employer and Employe. In 1913 congress passed an act creating the department of labor. The purpose of this department is set forth in the following words of congress: “To foster, promote and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States and increase their opportunities for profitable employment.” A natural outgrowth of the development of this new department has been the creation of what is now known as the United States employment service, available to all residents of the United States, citizen or alien. There are eighty employment offices, all free, operated by the government. The postoffices were made local depositories where the employer can secure, upon demand, order blanks for help, and the employe application blank for employment, both of which will be transmitted by the postmaster to the proper headquarters office without expense. The headquarters of Zone No. 10, comprising Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin, is at Chicago. Blanks used in this work can be only from the Chicago office.

There are four offices in this zone: 845 South Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill.; Federal Building, Indianapolis, Ind.; Larned and Griswold St., Detroit, Mich.; Federal Building, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. All of these offices are prepared to handle orders for miscellaneous help of all kinds, skilled or unskilled. Persons lesiring to correspond with these • offices should address the U. S. Employment Service at their nearest office as shown abovi. If you desire to call 'in person the office hours are from 9 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. The United States Employment Service offers its assistance to all residents of the United States. If you are an employer in need of help or a worker in need of employment, write to your nearest office and state your case fully. You will be given every consideration to the end that your needs may be supplied and no fee of any kind will be charged. Farmers will find these offices of much benefit in securing the farm help they may need, either experienced or inexperinced, married, or single.