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the National Employment Board serves men and women engaged in 
unskilled or semiskilled trades. 
Mr. LaGuarpia. I am not interested in that. 
Miss Cooke. But when you think of organized labor and we think 
of the masses that make up that organization, I think we are too 
prone to think of the skilled worker; we give little or no thought to 
the successful attempt on the part of labor to organize the execu- 
tives—not executives, because it does not, but the bookkeeper, the 
stenographers, the teachers. Mr. Green made a statement yesterday 
which I have previously referred to, in substance, that no man or 
woman should pay for a job. I go further: No man or woman should 
be forced to pay for the privelege of working after he has once found a 
job. We have the employee to consider just as well as the employer; 
we have the employee on one side: we have the employer on the other 
side. 
Mr. Hammer. What other States besides West Virginia, if you 
know, have legislation of the kind you referred to a while ago? 
Miss Cooke. There are six or seven. 
Mr. Hammer, Well just what are the provisions, in substance, of the 
West Virginia legislation? 
Miss Cooke. In substance, it forbids the taking of labor from one 
county to the other, without paying a high tax. 
Mr. HamMmEer. It is a license upon the solicitors of labor, I take it? 
Miss Cooke. Contractors; employers fall within that group. 
Mr. Hammer. It does not make the laborer amenable? 
Miss Cooke. No. 
Mr. Hammer. He is not required to be licensed. 
Miss Cooke. No. 
2 Hammer. But the license is of the labor agents, as we call 
them? 
Miss Cooke. Not the labor agents alone but the employers. 
Mr. Hammer. Oh, yes; any solicitor. Well what other States 
have such legislation now? 
Miss Cooke. Well there are six or seven States. 
Mr. Hammer. Do you know any of them? 
Miss Cooke. I can look them up. 
Mr. Hammer. It is not important enough for that. 
Miss Cooxk. I think they are the Southern States; they are all 
Southern States. 
Mr. HamMER. As between counties? 
Miss Cooke. Yes. 
Mr. Hammer. You do not remember any Southern State that has 
such legislation? 
Miss Cooke. I beg your pardon? 
Mr. Hammer. You do not remember one of them; you can not 
name one of them? 
Miss Cooke. When I gave testimony before the committee in 
1919, I named them. 
Mr. Hammer. Well the Southern States legislation is more directly 
in line than it was a few years ago. They have abandoned it now, as 
unconsittutional. 
Miss Cooke. The statutes are still on the books and I think North 
Carolina—I do not want to be quoted in this matter, but is seems to 
me——