Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1907 — Free Employment Agencies. [ARTICLE]

Free Employment Agencies.

The Massachusetts Labor Bulletin, aa digested in American Industries, shows that fifteen States now have free publie employment agencies in operation, as follows: California, Connecticut, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Eleven of these have State systems, with twenty-eight offices in twenty-six cities, and five States have eight municipal offices. The motives advanced to justify these agencies are the belief that State competition would drive unscrupulous private agencies out of business, the need of assisting the unemployed, and the bringing together of laborer and employer with the result of reducing the army of unemployed.