Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 281, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1926 — Page 19

iiARCH 26,1926

FREE LABOR BUREA U IS SAVING SIOO,OOO Merits of State Employment Department Are Told by Perry W. Reeves —40,316 Persons Given Aid.

During the last year more than j SIOO,OOO has been saved for Indiana j ■workers through services rendered by the State Free Employment Bu- j reau, according to Perry W. Reeves, | director. Basing his computation on prevailing rates charged by commercial bureaus, and taking into consideration j the time each successful applicant worked on the job located for him ! by the State, Reeves estimated that • $108,850 was saved. This sum can be increased from year to year, Reeves predicted as additional employers join with the State in its campaign to reduce unemployment and its attending ills. When the State places an unemployed man to work it makes no charge, Reeves explained. After a man has been out of work any extended period his family begins to suffer and the applicant is in no position to pay any considerable sum for his job, Reeves declared. The first month of employment, if following close on a period of unemployment, is the worst because the debts have accumulated, according to Reeves.

Bureaus Related Reeves, in addition to his position as supervisor of employment for the ttUite industrial board, is assistant PPPre<ftor for the United States Department of Labor employment Service. Work of the two departments is closely related. Commenting on the work. Reeves said, “the placing of 2,156,465 men and women In jobs during the past fiscal year emphasizes the wide use of the government employment service and the necessity for such a service.’’ Following the precedent established by France in its public employment bureau in Paris, the State of Ohio in 1890 passed a law authorizing the creation of bureaus in five of the State’s principal cities. New York followed in 1896, Illinois in 1899 and .other States in rapid succession. 40,316 Employed In a report covering activity of the# Indiana bureau during the last year, Reeves shows that positions have been obtained for 40,316 persons. Since opening of the public employment office in Indianapolis last September the department has placed 2,536 local men and women in positions ranging from common labor to high office and factory jobs. The Federal Government assists the various States in their placement work and operates as a sort of national clearing house for labor. As a. result men from one State quite frequently are sent to a neighboring State when labor is needed badly at the latter point. The Government also lends material, financial assistance to the State bureaus, which in Ibstri aid their muncipal public employment agencies. "Whether conducted by city, State or Federal Government, finding employment for men and women is a necessary public function. If it is the duty of organized government to provide schools to educate its future citizens, it is not reasonable for the same governmental organization to supply the machinery whereby its citizens may find suitable work?” Reeves asked. Job Is Important '“Nothing on earth 1s so important to a man as a job. In this day and age industrial processes have become so complicated that the labor of many kinds of skilled and unskilled workers is necessary for the completion of a single product. One factory employs thousands of men —a change in the process of manufacturing may throw many of these employes out of work, or an enlargement of the plant may require additional hundreds of employes. Suddenly hundreds of men in one locality may be looking for a job at the same time, or employers in another locality may be asking for more men than the immediate labor market can produce. In such a complicated situation the public employment . service is an absolute necessity if labor is to be had,” Reeves said. Solution of the problem, according to Reeves, rests in a more hearty cooperation on the part of employers. Discussing the attitude of the big riployer, he said: “Does he know how much it costs an applicant to secure the position he has to fill wheikhe calls a fee-charging employment agency? Can he picture the hardship that may be Imposed on the applicant by having to pay that fee? Did he ever stop to think that the person who has been out of employment is probably not able to afford this unnecessary expense? Had it ever occurred to him that when he calls a feecharging agency for an applicant, he is forcing the applicant to work a large part of the first month without compensation?” Fees Run High Fees charges by commercial agencies range from 25 per cent to p§ ■Bves diseased oondiJj? lONS OF THE MOI Till gargle. Highly reo6mby ilentists to relieve inySjttVion and harden spongy, and receding gums. Bad Breath! recommend Every but one sells it in liuli--1H Nile Bottle. SOc. >ire Bottle, SI.OO

60 per cent of the first month’s salary for clerical, stenographic, technical or executive postiions; $5 to $25 for placement of skilled mechanics; $2 to $5 for common and

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semi-skilled labor; $3 to $5 for farm laborers’ $4 to $lO for domestics and from thirty to fifty cents a day for one-day jobs, Reeves said. Against the five public employment agencies in Indiana, one of which is in Indianapolis, there are forty commercial agencies in the State. The latter are distributed as follows: Thirty in Indianapolis, three in South Bend, two in Ft. Wayne and one each in Gary, East Chicago, Evansville, New Albany and Lafayette. “All are properly licensed and doing a strictly legal business, and it is not my intention to throw' any

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discredit on their services. However, I candidly believe the employers of our State should offer the utmost co-operation with this department, whose service comes without cost to employer or employe,” Reeves said. AMERICA’S BUS ROUTES There are now more than 7,800 motor bus routes in America, being operated by 5,500 motor bus companies. The greatest bus-using region is the section north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi, where 2,700 bus companies operate 3,000 routes.

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