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labor from where it is not needed to where it is needed ; OT are we 
going to be controlled by the other thing—the union? : 
Miss Cooke. You will be controlled, sir, by the union, if I under- 
stand it correctly. I am making a pretty broad statement, but I 
believe it is based on fact. 
Mr. Micuengr. That is all. 
Mr. Sparks. Do you know how many people are engaged in the 
different employment agencies throughout the United States, in the 
handling of the same and their employees? 
Miss Cooke. Now is the question—— 
Mr. Sparks. In the private employment agency. 
Miss Cooxz. Is the question how many employment agencies are 
there in the United States? 
Mr. Sparks. No, madam; I did not intend it that way. 
Miss Cooke. How many people are employed? 
Mr. Sparks. Are employed in those agencies? 
Miss Cooke. I can not state for a certainty but I can give you ap- 
proximate figures. There are 3,000 agencies of all classifications in 
the country, including teachers and unskilled labor. That is as 
nearly as we can determine it. I build my list twice a year. Of 
Course, there is a turnover. Some of those offices employ 1 , 2, and 
3 people; other offices employ as many as 75 to 100. 
Mr. Sparks. Could you make any approximation of the number, 
then, that are employed in those agencies? 
Miss Cooke. I could not; but I can furnish the figures to this com- 
mittee inside of a week; if it would be of any value, I could give you 
the exact figures. 
Mr. LaGuarpia. Miss Cooke, you based most of your opposition 
to S. 3060? 
Miss Cooke. Entirely. 
Mr. LaGuarpia. Yes—in the belief that it will cause competition 
between the Federal and State agency and the fee-charging agencies? 
Miss Cooke. Not competition. ; 
The Cuairman. I think the lady means to convey the idea, if I 
get it rightly, that the passage of this bill, under the power of the 
an who controls the work for the Government. will wipe out the 
Private agencies. 
Mr. LaGuarpia. Exactly. : 
The Cuarrman. That is the point. Co 
Miss Cookr. Absolutely. 
The Cuarrman. And take the employment away from them. : 
Mr. LaGuarpia. You stated you represented mostly professional 
agencies? 
Miss Cooke. Agencies serving men and women engaged in tech- 
nical, educational, clerical, and like pursuits. . 
Mr. LaGuarpia. Now. those are the agencies that are in your 
organization? 
Miss Cooxe. In the National Employment Board. " 
Mr. LaGuarpia. You do not embrace agencies specializing in 
labor, unskilled Jabor, and semiskilled labor? 
Miss Cooke. Not in the National Employment Board. 
Mr. LaGuarpia. Now, you expressed a fear as to the regulatory 
Powers of this national bureau and the Federal commissioner and 
Stated there was a great deal of confidential information. What 
18 the general character of that confidential information?