PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT BUREAUS
Public Employment Bureaus MARKED PROGRESS toward a network of efficient public employment bureaus throughout the country is recorded in Publication 25 just issued by the American Association for...
...Translation of a report on unemployment insurance, by the German imperial statistical bureau, shows the progress made in this direction by the various countries, and another very helpful feature of this publication is a list of the best books and articles on unemployment...
...On April 28 the city of New York adopted an ordinance providing for a municipal employment bureau, on April 7 New York state enacted a law establishing a bureau of employment in the state department of labor, and on April 29 Representative Murdock introduced in Congress a bill to provide a similar national bureau in the federal Department of Labor...
...the lowest state appropriation is $1,200 in West Virginia, where there is one office...
...Nineteen states and fifteen municipalities have already provided for public employment bureaus...
...Resolutions favoring the plans proposed in the various bills noted above, and for further investigation of the remaining topics were adopted...
...Despite the diversity of view-points represented," says Secretary John B. Andrews of the Association, "in the course of the two days' discussion five main points of agreement became clearly defined...
...The Association for Labor Legislation announces that it will continue its investigations and will urge further legislation wherever it is clearly needed...
...Illinois spends over $50,000 a year on its eight exchanges...
...These were the necessity for accurate statistics of the condition of the labor market, the necessity for an efficient nation-wide system of employment exchanges, the necessity for regularizing business so as to reduce seasonal fluctuations, and the necessity for a just and economical system of employment insurance...
...The new publication gives the text of the three measures, and contains in addition, the proceedings of the First American Conference on Unemployment, recently held in New York and attended by delegates from twenty-five states and fifty-nine cities...
...Public Employment Bureaus MARKED PROGRESS toward a network of efficient public employment bureaus throughout the country is recorded in Publication 25 just issued by the American Association for Labor Legislation...
...With one exception these are free to all applicants...
Vol. 6 • May 1914 • No. 21
