Show CONNECTING JOBLESS MAN MA WIT Wilt Tn MAN R. R lS Joe JoeR JO OJ L f C ILl W M I 1 J 3 D. D CLARE CLAREs iI nr e l' l h r fj 4 l Jj rF W REJA I s W YE R 1 6 gt f 1 n SA SAM SAI I today Is engaged In the beneficent work of or securing employment employment employment em em- for his unemployed nieces and nephews whether native or foreign born Uncle Sams Sam's workers In chief at the problem of or connectIng connecting connectIng connect connect- ing the Jobless man with the manless manless man man- less Jess job are William B B. B Wilson Nilson secretary of the d department of or labor labor labor la la- bor Anthony Caminetti the commissioner general general gen gen- gent eral erat of Immigration and T T. T V V. V Powderly chief of CC the division or of Information of or the Immigration bureau Nobody knows definitely how many unemployed men and women there are In the United States today One thing however Is Js known definitely that the number probably Is not as great nor anything anything anything any any- thing like as great In proportion to the population population population tion as It has been at times In the past There arc are enough of or the tho unemployed however to make the problem a serious one but there seems to be a tidier belief on the part of or government officials that the broadening of ot the field of ot federal effort to help men and women to work steadily will sap tho the strength of that dreaded and at times actually devouring do- do monster known as r rJ J 4 J 4 xi s k J 1 unemployment The division of or informs Information 5 fit y tion Uon of the bureau of Immigration Immigration N. N w A gration not only Is en engaged a ed w a In the work of ot promoting the tho i beneficial distribution of or aliens admitted to 1 the United United Unit Unit- ed States but under the general general gen gen- t r s eral eras power Dower of the law Is dl- dl dt U t Ung the distribution of residents ri x ts and citizens of f the tt x r. r t y avail United States who wish to J. J a r r. r M vim l h Wo F lIS z themselves of ot opportunities ay or 07 Fc 21 b for labor afforded i z through Its Instrumentality f Recently the post office department t and the depart depart- tm r ment meat of ot agriculture have hare h ve entered en en- Into a cooperative P i T 7 MORI arrangement ar ar- cS K with the Annn depart depart- i n 11 L. L nv iu uL ui or the Luu plan piau lor the me em em- nt and nd dis distribution of ot laborers in the tho U United States the former through its postmasters post post- masters officers In charge of branch post of of- flees Uces and rural carriers and the latter through Its ts field and other services ser throughout the United United United Unit Unit- ed ed- States Every officer of the department of agriculture no matter where he Is located Is charged with the duty of keeping Washington officials Informed concerning the necessity for workers In the lo locality lo 1 caUty in which he resides Every farmer In the United States through the post office department department department depart depart- ment by this time has been or soon will be be furd furnished fur Dished with application blanks upon which he can state an any need which he has of or farm laborers laborers laborers labor labor- ers or of help of any description These blanks blanks' filled In and forwarded will do the service for which they are intended the intended the r-the the connection conne of or some somo competent nl m man n with work vork of the kind which he seeks The work which Is Is being done in id connect connection on with farm labor is of ot cour course e. e only one one p part rt of ot the tho service which the department of of ot labor through its Us division of information is performing Manufacturers Manufacturers Manu Manu- and employers of labor of or all aU kinds are furnished with blanks similar to those sent to the farmers armors s except of or course that they are are ad adjusted ad- ad lusted to meet other kinds of or working needs The correspondence of the department is is tremendous and nd the Uio work of or giving men men work Is s going forward forward for for- ward vard rapidly Before going Into the details of ot the me mecha mechanism ha- ha of the system by which natives sometimes sometimes' and recently arrived immigrants are to fields of f employment something should be to said a about out the dev development of or t this s neat reat r at gov governmental plan to provide work for the j For a quarter of a century William B. B Wilson now now a member of ot President Wilsons Wilson's abinet as the head of the department nt of l labor bor las Ian been deeply interested concerned perhaps vere a better word In Inthe the solution of ot the em ot of forging the connecting link of ot information the man seeking work and the man seek- seek ng workmen For just as long and perhaps ps a longer per period Jd l C 7 V. V Powderly the chief of or the division of In- In has been Inte interested ested in the same em Mr Powderly has bas been connected with the service for some years and has de- de elo elop elod d a system of bf t- t tg g getting the work and and the worker together until today the post Tice department and the agricultural depart depart- 11 Went nt are operating co-operating with the department of laor laor laor la- la or In a broad and comprehensive plan to reduce he be evil of ot unemployment to a minimum which light be called caned natural Perhaps ps Mr Powderly will enter no objection C L one tells tens a story of how he first became Inter- Inter sted stell to a heart and mind feeling point in plans o 0 get work for the workless To me mo the story 1 9 an interesting one and it seems that it ought o be to others In th the year 1873 T T. T V V. V Powderly a machinist by rade lost his eyesight For three months he sat n 1 darkness and being unable to work he lost Is job His sight came back and he be started on a ramp looking for work He was a tramp seek- seek 15 ag g- g work not a tramp seeking handouts Ho He left lert he United States and went into Canada He no work On the eve of ot New Years Year's day sn found himself in St. St Thomas Ont with 10 o Ine in his pocket no food tood In his stomach nd ad no place to sleep A watchman allowed him himo o sleep steel In the of ot a depot on a bed lade of or b bagging From there Powderly walked I o Buffalo seeking work w rk There a hearted good d Ishman gave him breakfast the first one he hadad had hadad ad d for tor some days All this time the tramper as Jas asking himself why there was not some leans of or letting hitting him know where there was ork lork In asking himself this he was charging Is heart and mind with a purpose in life the ame purpose which Secretary Wilson of ot the de- de of at labor fixed in his own mind and ea eart t a quarter of ot century ago Tramp Powderly reached one town where here nere were some machine shops He applied for vork ork und and there were no vacancies He left Shortly afterward he learned that at another m mac machine ac h 1 Ine no shop they had needed needed need needed ed men If he had known It ho he could have secured work worle at his trade and have been clothed well wen fed and h happy He had no means of or knowing except by d direct i Ire r e c t application that at this this' place there was was was' work Today as a result of study of systems and T of At the r Rio J. ru alL alLI I C. C pA pAiA iA Q p nv u f r s. s A z I n II til UL through the thee years a workless Oman man can go to any post office or soon will be able so to do do Inthe In In ih the United States and nd there learn from the government offic officials als of or the employment ment ties in the neighborhood d. d Uncle Sam is using his pos postmasters asters as a means Ieans of i getting the willing willing will will- ing worker to the waiting job There are re many factors in this problem of or in- in un employment It must must be known that there ai arc aio o tramps ramps and slid aud tramps There Is the man who is looking for work ork and who seeks it and has to tramp to do doit It ft and then there is the roan man who has lost his work and has b become come discouraged an and I apparently does oe not care whether ether or or not he ho hoever ever ve finds work again The first man h has s not lost last his self respect and the second man has either lost I It t or has come pretty close to to losing it It is not going too far perhaps to o say that a part of t the he governmental function n eventually will be to a spirit a-spirit spirit of or self-respect self in men who through 1 idleness leness enforced idleness in the first place generally have lost it Some day these men will be brought back to manhood They are In the minority for exp experience shows that most of the idle ones are Idle because they cannot cannot cannot can can- not help being Idle The government through its division of or Inform information is seeking to destroy i idleness The United States for the purpose of connecting connecting connecting con con- employment seekers with employment has b been en divided into distribution zones There Thero are 18 of ot these zones The official of the immigration Immigration immigration gration service already on duty in a city In each zone attends to the work of distribution For a along along along long time the labor of or distributing workmen was carried on from New York city and it is true that in the future a large part of ot the supply of or material will come from New York because it is a n big city and also a great immigration port The headquarters cities of or the different distribution zones are New e York Boston Philadelphia Philadelphia Phila Phila- delphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Fla New Orleans Galveston Cleveland Chicago Minneapolis Minneapolis Min Min- neapolis St. St Louis Denver Helena Seattle Portland Ore San Francisco and Los Angeles Let New York city as a distributing center and andas andas andas as a center of information be taken as a chief chiet example of or how things are being done in this effort to connect the unemployed with employment employ employ- ment Canon L. L Greene is the inspector in charge of ot the Information Work at the barge office in New York city Now Now it should be known that the government nt not only tries to connect workless ones with work but it also tries to put men who have saved a little mono mone money and who want to buy farms in touch with conditions In any part of or the country in which it seems likely that hat they will make a success of or their farming efforts A man seeking work on a farm comes Into the barge office In New York First the officials read a lesson in human nature from the mans man's face They try to discover It is said and almost always succeed how much sincerity there Is in him Then he ho Is asked how much money he be has If It he has enough to take him to the place of or employment all well and good The fact that he Is willing to pay the money to take him there is first proof of ot his desire to work and to stick sUck to it There are men however who havA no 10 money but who are capable willine t temperate and aIU- aIU ious Ions to won in many cases the farmer fanner w who 1 0 needs a special specia kind of or man nian Is is willing to a avance advance ad he vance the transportation which will take f t the employed from the place of ot his application for work to the scene of or action Now of ot course some men me might take the transportation and never show up and the government has not funds t to make good gOd such petty defalcations Nearly every man however who applies for work wants an s sw w work rk and such men generally have some some personal personal per per- belongings He Is told th that t If If he w will will tl check his belongings which h haIe are aIe first examined d to see If they are valuable enough nough to cover th the cost of transportation and will give the c check to th the authorities they will give him the money to send him him to his place of ot employment This system system tem tern of baggage checking ha has been going on for fora a long timo and almost never has there been een a slip The Themen men go and in most cases make good Chief Powderly of the division of ot information says that in the belongings of most of or the men who apply apply- for work are found pictures of a mother moth moth- er or a f father ther or of a family family- group group and that almost almost al al- most invariably when the baggage is turned over for Inspection and transportation the says Dont lose the picture It Is a human trait and a sign of ot the sort softer r. r nature which underlies almost every exterior even if It it be a rugged one and perhaps seemingly at times a hard one The remedy for unemployment Is employment This Is what Mr Powderly says a and d it seems as sharply true as the saying of or the past in connection connection con con- with the resumption of ot specie payment The way to o resume is to resume It Is the ef et fort today of or the department of labor through division of ot information to ask all employers In the United States agricultural c commercial manufacturing man man- to tell the government what men they want and what they pay The Tho rural carriers the post offices and every postal Is means used to get the information The responses have been most generous The officials officials' at one distri button center when they find that the proper place for a man or that the place to which he wishes to go Is s located In another zone communicate cate with the distribution center of that zone The work is systematized and rapidly it is be coming the most effective agent to diminish the condition of pf unemployment in America The nf fh Uti UL are arenow now seeking definite information concerning how much repair work on barns barns' a and l other buildings build build- ings on the farms Jarm Is done each winter The plan Is to see if through the far who need the help of ot carpenters or machinists In wint winter r. r relief reHer cannot be given to many city workers who have little or nothing to do during the cold winter months The farmers to are to be bo asked what repairs they will need next winter and what kind of or a man they would like Uke to have hav The federal officials will find the man man and thus they hope to supply with employment the during the slack times in the city many men willing and anxious to labor through the entire year It seemingly Is a wish of the officials ot of the department of ot labor that it should be known that while the division of Information of ot the bureau of or Immigration is a part that this work of ot connecting the jobless with the job does concern Itself alone with the not to o give Its service fully and immigrant but alms alms aims Incoming freely treely alike aUke to o the stranger and to the this as his native land man who knows |