Show Your Public Employment Service By J DONALD LD DEALL nEALI I I The development and growth of the public employment service have In general gen gen- genI I I eral paralleled the Industrial expansion or of the modern age When the United I States was wag largely a nation of or villages and small farms employment problems were solved usually within a farmers farmer's i own own household or by farmers helping I each other at harvest time tune The village I i blacksmith or merchant merely had to Inquire among his customers or friends for extra help But as villages grew into I cities the blacksmith shops Into huge I I manufacturing plants and the village I j markets Into large department stores I and shopping centers other employment I i solutions were needed j I j Employment though a problem of 1 I individuals vitally concerns the coin coin- 01 1 0 the state and the n nation tl ri Usually Usually Usually I ally of course such problems can be be and are solved locally However as industrial in- in j I plants are moved reduced In-I In or orI I expanded as seasonal businesses rise i and fall and as economic fluctuations I I occur communities sometimes have too I I Il I l small or too large a labor supply Then Thea i help from other communities is needed I I Industrial nations throughout the I world have found it necessary to provide I r I public employment services for their I j ji I i I people Most countries have provided this service for many years The city of pt New York provided the first such service service- I In in this country in 1834 by establishing I places where employers ers could meet immigrants im lm- migrants arriving In the United States Stat s II Municipal employment offices were later opened by the cities of Los Angeles and I Seattle Ohio In 1890 was the first state to I establish h a public employment service I I by law In World War I a national emI employment em- em I service was Instituted b by the I Federal Government to provide service I lin in a number of large cities not served by state employment services After the war the operation of these national of offices or- or I flees faces was turned over to the state gov gov- I Recognizing the interstate nature of ot otI I many economic and labor market problems problems problems lems the Wagner-Peyser Wagner Act of 1933 I established a State Federal-State system of public employment services Administration tion is vested in the states Responsibility ty for coordinating these services is carried carried carried car car- ried by the Federal Government There are over 1800 time full-time local offices I J I I throughout the nation The services I j I provided stem from the point efforts of I i local state and federal organizations I Public employment offices provide I services other than the placement of the I I I worker worker services services which result in a better I placement fob Job The Employment Service i i is primarily concerned however with j i i providing the right worker for the right I Job at the right time All services to I community employer and worker are provided without charge I This is the the first of a series s 's series fles of articles by Mr Beall which will a appear appear p r weekly in The Record |