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Show Diagnosis Of Problem Must Precede Unemployment Cure By JOSEPH S. MAYER, Director Utah State Employ- , ment Service. 1 "1. 'f ' & A- When the picture pic-ture of faulty labor relations has been drawn by the state employment em-ployment office and when all the data necessary is compiled, the solution so-lution of the problem prob-lem of unemployment unemploy-ment may be pos- and present it to the public and let the public or private agencies agen-cies determine upon a course to follow. In Cincinnati a group of civic-minded civic-minded individuals have developed devel-oped a method for holding un employment in that area to a minimum. The program is contained con-tained in what is known as Cincinnati's Cin-cinnati's "Four-Point Program" and is conducted by the Cincinnati Cincin-nati employment center of the . Ohio State Employment Service. This schedule is broken down into apprentice training, short time training, part time jobs, and the care of unemployables. The British employment exchanges ex-changes at times carry on their own training program when they find a labor shortage. In America Amer-ica where some organizations specialize in rehabilitation training, train-ing, others make a specialty of apprentice work. Where the labor unions and vocational educational edu-cational institutions, both public and private, are already in the training field, the functions of the employment service along that line will probably be confined con-fined to fact-finding, information gathering, and indicating trends of employment. All in all, there is a brilliant future for the public employ- . ment service. Private industry is turning more and more to the public employment office for its labor. Those who are versed in labor problems are wide awake to the fact that there is a rich field for this service, and that it is up to the Employment Service Serv-ice to prove to the community that it can be of utmost value to it. sible. To get a better idea of just how the employment office can at into a general rehabilitation picture, two or three examples of just what has been done in other places can be considered. In West Virginia a year or two igo a couple of public-minded individuals made a brief survey of a group of unemployed persons. per-sons. It was found that some of these individuals were unemployed unem-ployed because of physical handicaps hand-icaps which could be cured by surgery. Funds were secured and a number of these persons sent to hospitals. Operations were performed, and in the course of a few weeks these people were back in their usual lines of employment. The cost of the hospitalization was small compared with the cost these individuals would have been to the state had they not been cured of their defects. Most certainly an employment office set-up can J not conduct a program of physical rehabilitation, rehabilita-tion, but it can draw the picture ' 'l |