Unemployment in the United States

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Identifikator:: 1828236179

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-226169

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Unemployment in the United States

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: United States, Government Printing Office

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: II, 193 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Statement by Miss Frances Perkins, industrial commissioner of the State of New York

Collection:: Economics Books

70 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES Mr. LaGuarpia. The subordinates in this office in the State of New York are liable to and paid by the State of New York, and are under the State civil service laws of the State of New York? Miss PerkINs. Yes; except that there are a few in the employ- ment bureau who are employed by and pa’d by the Federal director. Mr. LAGuarDpia. Are they under the civil service? Miss Perkins. I do not know; they are employed by and paid by the Federal director, but they dove-tail their work in with the other people of the department. That is a device by which we get a cer- tain amount of Federal aid for the Federal employment system. This system has, nevertheless, been of invaluable aid to the people of the State. We have 11 offices in the State and we have built up a cooperative system with the help of the municipal and private employment offices of a charitable nature. which were no-fee taking offices. During the crises we have transferred some of the people in the Department of Labor to these offices temporarily, and this is to show what can be done by cooperation between the State and the city and the private enterprises. We bave been able to step-up the rate of placement, so that our average placement, which was 3,000 per month, un#il the 1st of February, when it began to go up, and in the month of May we placed 10,000, and all by setting-up a clearing house and collaborat- ing on the jobs daily. Every afternoon by 3 o’clock, through tele- phone communication and by mail, we clear up over the State, we clear up all our orders for jobs. So, if there were novelty workers who make pocket-books and things of that kind, needed in the city of Rochester, and there were none at hand there, we can send them from Albany, Syracuse and New York City, or other parts of the State, to Rochester to fill those places. Lis hes brought inestimable help to the men who wanted to go to a job. Moreover, these bureaus after getting men for positions for which they have been trained, they will take a man who was a bricklayer for the last 10 years and whom they learn or discover has learned at some time of his life a section of the printer’s trade when a boy, or some other skilled trade; and they take him and by a development of his knowledge and experience in that line he may be fitted for a trade in which there is not a lack of employment, or where he can fill in his seasonal slacks. In other words, the development of these bureaus offers an invaluable service to industry and industrial workers, without regard to State lines or boundaries. For it is more and more true that industry does not regard State lines. We have plants, industrial plants in the State of New York, that have other plants or branch plants in New Jersey or Pennsylvania, and their head men ere always going back and forth from one to the head of the other, thus passing from one State to the other. Why should not the citizens of Boston work in the city of Philadelphia when work is slack in Boston and plentiful in Philadelphia, in their own trade? And why should they not know of the fact that there is work in their line in plenty in a near-by city? That is what this exchange is for. It will not make jobs where there are no jobs; but coupled up with the other programs and the

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