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UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 145
“If Uncle Sam Turned Job Hunter,” appearing in The Nation's
Business in March, this year. There you have a man speaking from
experience and without prejudice—the superintendent of one of the
largest and most successful State employment agencies in this country.
I believe, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, you will
find these articles a valuable contribution to your record. I shall be
vlad to leave them with you.
In as much as the policies and practices of the fee-charging agencies
were severely criticized yesterday morning and that criticism will
appear in the record, a permanent record, I ask the indulgence of your
committee for the privilege of reading the Standards of Practice of
the National Employment Board, in order that you may know what
the outstanding representative free-charging agencies in this country
stand for. May I read it into the record?
Mr. Micaener. How extensive is it?
Miss Cooke. Two pages.
The CrarrMAN. Well, they may be filed.
Mr. MicueNer. I would rather have them printed than read.
Miss Cooke. Very well.
The CrarrmMaN. Very well.
Miss Cookke. I will leave those two articles. It is discretionary
with you, of course, whether they are printed, but you will find some
real practical information contained therein.
The CuarmaN. They may be filed.
STANDARDS OF PracTicE NaTioNnaL EmproymMent Bosrp
Whereas the National Employment Board is an organization operating for the
mutual benefit of the fee-charging employment agencies, employers, and the em-
ployment-seeking public, and
Whereas this association through frank and lawful cooperation of its members
is committed to remove from its field of endeavor such attendant evils and trade
customs as are contrary to sound business principles and the highest standards of
practice, and
Whereas experience has shown that standards of practice governing business
relations ave essential to the progress and development of every trade and pro-
fession, and
Whereas each vocation requires rules peculiarly adapted to itself: therefore be it
Resolved, That the members of this association accept the following standards of
practice as fundamental to the best interests of the public, the employer, and the
2ge1CY.
RELATIONS WITH EMPLOYERS
1. Candidates shall not be referred to employer clients without the prior authori-
zation of the clients themselves.
2. Introductions to clients shall be withheld from all applicants who are found
to be of questionable character.
3. Intimate facts relating to the business policy of clients which are imparted
as aids to the intelligent handling of their requirements shall be preserved in strict
confidence.
4. Service shall be withheld from employers who are known to abuse or exploit
their employees or who fail to provide proper working conditions for them or who
refuse to permit reasonable inquiry when necessary into their business solvency.
5. Dividing or sharing commissions with employer clients or with their repre-
sentatives is illegal and unethical and is strictly forbidden. Candidates shall
not be referred to employers who indicate their expectation of these indulgences.
6. Applicants shall not be solicited for other positions while they are still in
the employ of clients with whom thev have been blaced.
