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Show OSCAR I STRAUS, UPPER LEFT; ELBERT GARY, UPPER RIGHT; THOMAS L. LEWIS, LOWER LEFT; SAMUEL DONNELLY, DON-NELLY, LOWER RIGHT. MEN BACK OF THE NATIONAL FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU Washington, Jan. 7. Oscar Straus of the department of commerce and labor has come forward with another proposition quite as much of an Innovation Inno-vation as many others which he has inaugurated and carried to success. His latest Idea Is to have a national ! free employment bureau open to every I one from coa3t to coast. He has taken j the matter up with Thomas Lewi3 of the labor organization; Samuel Don-j nelly of the government printing office; of-fice; Elbert H. Gary of steel fame, and others and all are carefully and systematically sys-tematically investigating the field to see if the scheme Is a feasible one No stops have been taken as yet towards to-wards completion of this economic problem Mr. Straus himself is very optimistic about It and says that It is entirely practical. !n talking with him today he designated i tas one of the most important subjects before the people. It hints at the root of the unnecessary unemployed. It deals with the men who want to work and who are out of jobs In certain localities, locali-ties, while other localities perhaps thousands of miles away, desire just such men. Continuing, he said: "Take, for example, the case of the tinner In New York city who Is ont of a Job. He walks the streets and finds there are other tinners who are unable to find employment. At the present time theBe men are not sufficiently Informed In-formed to know where the demand for their line of work Is, and yot as a mat ter of fact 1.000 tinners may be needed In Seattle to work on the buildings of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, while four or flvo hundred metal workers work-ers are needed in Chicago. St. Lou 1 3 and other cities of the middle west. . Three thousand men are wanted In the fruit belts of California and yet this man In New York who want9 work and is competent Is unable to find It." Another part of Secretary Straus' scheme is to furnish transportation at a minimum rate, to be deducted from the employe's first week's wages. He expects to be able to transport a man from Now York to Seattle for $12 50 and to take this out of tho man's first week's pay. Messrs. Powder and Fife of the immigration im-migration service aro said to be actively ac-tively backing Secretary Straus In this scheme. |