Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-07-01 | Page 14 | Employment Service Bureau Goes out of Business

EMPLOYMENT SERVICE BUREAU GOES DOT OF BUSINESS The federal employment service bureau bu-reau which has been conduced during the past two years in Ogden by H. W. 'Beckett. Sr., went qui of business today to-day by order from the headquarters oftieo tor L'tah at Salt Lake The order discontinuing ihe office was received Just before noon today hv Mr llollllll M'.r- Aitl-nn 1 I i been interested in ke eping the office 'open and it is with much regret that Mr. Beckett announced the closing. During the two years in which the bureau has been operated in Ogden! many hundreds of men and women have been placed In jobs through orders or-ders that came to it. It was believed! by many citizens to be filling a great' need, but when conjrress failed to make 1 tne necessary appropriation for carrying carry-ing on the work it was realized that! the federal employment offices in all i , parts of the United States were doomed to be closed. The federal employment bureau has1 i been the dream of labor leaders for many years, and when it was finally i inaugurated U a war measure Jt was believed that a great step forward had I been taken and that the bureau would remain as a heritage of tbe war This has been Ihe sentiment in labor cir- ,cles, and laboring men in this city I ;are generally expressing regret over! I the closing of the local office. The instructions Mr. Beckett re-j ceived advised him to store the office furniture in the federal building if possible. oo