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Show VOLUNTEER I IS KjUIDEB Lower Salaries and Free Help Needed to Carry on Employment Service. WASHINGTON, March 15. Maintenance Mainte-nance of more employment bureaus than the fifty-six determined upon when the federal employment service was ordered reduced because of lack of funds will oe made possible by cooperation of volunteer workers, Director General Densmore said today. He explained that heads of many of the stato organizations had offered to continue at nominal salaries and their clerical staffs had arranged to conduct their work during spare hours. Legislatures In some states,' Mr. Densmore Dens-more said, are considering appropriations to tide over the period until congress can supply funds needed to enable the service ser-vice to resume its activities on the present pres-ent scale. The cities In which the federal employment employ-ment service will continue its bureaus af-tr af-tr March 22 include Phoenix, Ariz.; San Francisco, Los A ngeles, Denver, Boise, Chicago, two offices; Des Moines, BuUe, Omaha, Reno, New York City, two offices; of-fices; Portland. Ore.; Pierre, S. D.; Salt Lake City, Seattle and Cheyenne. A telegram was received yesterday by Governor Bamberger from Governor B. Clarkson, chairman of the national council coun-cil of defense, announcing that because of lack of funds the United states employment em-ployment service must be greatly curtailed, cur-tailed, the number of offices tto be reduced re-duced from 740 to fifty-six. It- is announced an-nounced that Colonel Arthur "Woods, special spe-cial assistant to Secretary of War Baker, will handle a skeleton organization, with the cooperation of the state executives, in which Governor Bamberger is asked to assist. Suggestion is made that voluntary bureaus, bu-reaus, to operate through the mayors of cities, chambers of commerce, labor organizations or-ganizations and welfare socities, be in-augura in-augura ted to work together to save the country from an embarrassing situation. |