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retail volume. If the task is to be undertaken it must be done, crassly stated, 
on a wholesale basis. 
Putting the idle of one community into jobs in another is, when accomplished, 
largely the work of private enterprise. When attempted by public agency success 
depends upon the worker's eagerness for a certain grade of work—as in the case 
of harvesting—and reliability of information given him. 
A COMMON MEETING PLACE 
Employment information to the employer who needs workers, giving him and 
the job seekers a place to get together and talk things over, is, it seems to me, the 
cardinal province of a public employment service because employment is the 
only cure for a labor surplus. The one outstanding service public employment 
offices can give is to show the employer who needs labor where he oan get it and 
the unemployed where jobs await them. 
At best that is about all the real constructive work a labor clearing house 
tould do on a national stage—pass along data that, in moving through many 
mails and across many desks, would frequently become too stale for other than 
academic consumption. 
For labor is only as mobile as principals make it. 
(The committee thereupon adjourned subject to the call of the 
chairman.) 
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