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Mr. Jones. This farm labor service was—we will go back to 1907.
That was what brought the farm labor service into existence. It
was called information then. It was to give information to aliens
and others, and then it broadened out till we entered the war and
when we entered the war it was known as the United States Employment
 Service, and it did set up offices throughout the country. :
The CrairmanN. That was provided by an act of Congress, was
it not?
Mr. Jones. Oh, yes. Well, not an act to establish the United
States Employment Service. It was an act of Congress in 1907 to
establish in the Department of Commerce and Labor the Information
Division, and the United States Emplovment Service was set up by
President Wilson.
The Cuairman. About 1916?
Mr. Jones. Yes, sir.
Mr. Free. How was it set up and in what States does it operate?
Mr. Jones. You will not confuse me, Congressman.
The CralrMAN. Let him get your set-up there of the double
service. One is cooperative and the other is Federal?
Mr. JonEs. One is cooperative and the other is Federal. We are
in cooperation with over 200 offices throughout the United States.
During the period of the war and for a short time afterwards the
Federal Government operated some 900—you may call it local public
employment offices. But they were closed down as a Federal operation
 and were turned back to the States, or they took them over
during the war and maintained them as one service under Federal
supervision.
Mr. Free. Now, what is the cooperative work?
Mr. Jones. For instance, a letter comes from your State or maybe
your district, Mr. Congressman, and they are appealing for work, for
jobs, and ask where they may be sent for jobs. Our cooperation is
bo send that to Mr. Seth R. Brown, Los Angeles, and we ask him if he
will not do his best to find employment for this man. We return it,
back to the State in which it originated. In case Mr. Brown cen
not find employment for him, and if we can find employment for this
man in some other State we will try to do it. We try to keep them
in their own States and not move labor out of one State into another.
That is our cooperative service.
Mr. Fres. Then the thing that starts that is somebodv writes in
and asks you for a job?
Mr. Jongs. Yes; that particular act.
The Cuairman. And the converse is true—people write to you for
iabor?
Mr. Jones, Yes; that is the other side of the story.
Mr. Free. Do vou go ont and stir un requests? Do people write
in to you?
Mr. Jones. In our cooperative work we do.
Mr. Free. That is the cooperative work vou do. Do vou do anything
 else?
Mr. Jonms. We furnish the forms and through the activities of the
Post Office Department they allow us to post them up. We also
have the men register.
Mr. Fre. Tome does that consist of?