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may be guided by this information in their examination and placement
 work.
Each State Employment Office makes a special effort to recruit
farm labor for the farms in its district. In a number of the State
Employment Offices one day of each week has been set aside as a farm
labor day, selected according to the customs of the locality, on which
day farmers seeking help and farm workers seeking employment can
meet at the State Employment Offices for interviews and for the making
 of working agreements. In this effort to furnish labor to the
farmer, the State Employment Offices have had the complete and thorough
 cooperation of the local granges of the Pennsylvania State Grange.
During the spring and early summer months all the State Fr.
ployment Offices make special efforts to secure for high school and
college students summer or vacation employment wherever it can
be found. Frequently the older boys and young men are advantageously
 placed upon farms. In connection with this summer employment
 a special effort is made to find when possible for the students
such work as may eoordinate with their school or college courses.
The Bureau of Employment maintains a daily inter-office clearance
system whereby applications of persons who cannot be placed in
the district of one office are cleared to those other offices in whose
districts there may be openings for such applicants, and whereby
orders or requisitions for employes which cannot locally be filled are
cleared to those other offices in whose districts there may be an available
 supply of the workers desired.
On January 1, 1928, there was inaugurated by the Bureau of Employment
 a monthly survey letter report upon employment and business
 conditions in every section of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
which upon the first of each month is issued and mailed to the business
men of the Commonwealth.
The Bureau of Employment has found it most advantageous to insure
 that it properly reflects the pulse of those interested in the various
activities of industry and employment through the development and
organization of committees particularly interested in such activities
throughout the Commonwealth. These committees enable both the
Bureau and the Department to find out the opinion of any given industry
 or of persons interested in a given industry with reference to any
projected action. They further enable the Department to secure sound
advice on possible methods of extending its influence.
With this fact in mind, the Bureau of Employment has created in
sach of the districts where it has an employment office, a cooperative
representative council or an advisory committee composed of representative
 citizens of the district. This council holds regular stated meetings
 during the year and such special meetings as may be necessary.
At these meetings the work of the local employment office is discussed
and plans for increasing and improving the service of the office are
considered and made.
In addition to cooperation with the other bureaus in the Department
of Labor and Industry, with the several departments of the Commonwealth
 of Pennsylvania, and with the United States Employment Service,
 the Bureau of Employment is constantly establishing definite
working relations with every organization whereby it can assist in
finding employment for unemployed persons,