Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1919 — Gets Jobs for Many [ARTICLE]

Gets Jobs for Many

Statistics Show Uncle Sam’s Rrcnrd Employment Agnnt During 18 Months’ Period 10,000 Persons Were Placed Working Day. Washington. —The record of Uncle Sam as employment agent is given in statistics made public by the department of labor, which cover the period ‘ from January, 1918, when the United States employment service was organized, to June 30. 1919. the end of the government’s fiscal year. . Ten thousand persons Were placed in jobs of all kinds each working day for the IS months’ period, according to the without costing them or their I employers a cent and at a cost to the whole country of but $1.34 per placement. The saving in fees to the men and women directed to employment by -Uncle Sam in co-operation with states and municipalities, is estimated at not less than $10,000,000. From January 1, 1918, to June 30, 1919, 7:108,655 workers of all kinds u ere reg is ter ed by the United States employment service for employment. ! Of the total, 6,446.294 were referred to positions and 4.955,159 were reported placed. A worker is reported as placed only after the service has received assurance, oral or, written, from either worker or employer of placement.

Placements were made of every kind of worker; front commoß-ftrtdrtOmesf ic laborersWo”high-salarled professional and technical workers. The recruiting and placing of farm labor has been one of the special features of the work of the federal employment service during the last year and a half. The common labor placements were but S 3 per cent of the total of slightly under 5,000,000 persons placed. The other 77 per cent consisted of skilled labor and other workers engaged In specific occupations. The total figures of the work of the United States employment service divide int_o_ two grounps: The “war period.” from January, 1918. to the end of November, 1918; and the “readjustment "period," from December,-1919,t0 the end of last June. The first period was primarily one of “man-finding;” the second one of “job-finding.” During the war period 3,432,997 persons were registered for employment and 3,444,093 referred to jobs, the great majority of them in war industry. Returns from the workers and employers show that 2,698,887 were placed. During the readjustment period the figures show that 3,432,997 persons were registered-far employment, 3,002,201 referred to jobs and 2,256,272 were reported placed. Included in the registrations w;ere 513,604: soldiers and sailors, of whom 314,137 were reported placed, but the returns on soldiers’ placements are incomplete.