Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-11-12 | Page 13 | Employment Unit Accused of Favoritism

EMPlOYMENT UNIT I OF FAVORITISM Simultaneously Director or of Group Announces New Registration Plan Charges Charge that favoritism ta Is being shown in the employment of men through the Civic Chic Employment bureau bureau bureau bu bu- bu- bu reau Regent street were made Thursday to ro Mayor John F. F Bowman man by E E. A. A Caldwell 77 R street Simultaneously J. J M M. Whitaker director of the bureau announced that he would refuse to accept any additional registration cards from unemployed and added that henceforth henceforth henceforth hence hence- forth the cards must be filed rued through the United States department of labor employment bureau Boston building Mr Caldwell Caldwel Informed Mayor Maor Bowman that contractors are arc evadIng evading evad evad- ing the commonly understood method meth meth- od oct of drawing labor Jabor from the thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of or men registered at the employment em em- bureau ure u by hiring men at the scene of oC construction provided those employed are actually registered and then sending them to the bureau to receive verification of the registration registration registration tion card Mr Whitaker reported that the change in method of registering unemployed unemployed unemployed un un- un- un employed was due to the confusion caused at the bureau through the dual operation of sending men out outto outto outto to construction sites and accepting registrations at the same time The city commission also took steps to avoid old possible abuses In connection connection connection tion with employment of men through the bureau It directed placing of a provision In all aU future contracts desIgnating designating designating des des- that rotated labor cannot be floated from one project to another thus assuring practically steady employment employment em em- for some men while others others oth oth- ers arc completely ignored