. Labor problems and labor legislation . employers associations itis frequently declared that they are strike-break-ing or blacklisting agencies. Much more wide-spread than any of these types are the commer-cial employment bureaus, operated for privateprofit, which abound in all industrial centers,to the number throughout the country of about5,000. A few are specialized professional agen-cies for teachers, trained nurses, theatrical per-sons or the like, but in the main they deal withunskilled and domestic labor. While many commercial employment bureausdo good work, others are known to indulge
. Labor problems and labor legislation . employers associations itis frequently declared that they are strike-break-ing or blacklisting agencies. Much more wide-spread than any of these types are the commer-cial employment bureaus, operated for privateprofit, which abound in all industrial centers,to the number throughout the country of about5,000. A few are specialized professional agen-cies for teachers, trained nurses, theatrical per-sons or the like, but in the main they deal withunskilled and domestic labor. While many commercial employment bureausdo good work, others are known to indulge inhighly discreditable practices. They have oftenbeen found by official investigators, for instance,to misrepresent wages and conditions of work,send girl applicants to immoral resorts, splitfees with foremen who discharge old employeesin order to hire new ones through the agency,and even to send men and women to great dis-tances where there is no call for their the effort to check these abuses, most states [14] EMPLOYMENT. PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT OFFICE. Public employment offices—when clean, efficient, and honest —bring good workmen and employers together. now provide that commercial employment agen-cies shall be bonded and licensed. Other regu-lations prohibit the location of employment bu-reaus in saloons or gambling places, and limitthe size of the fee that may be charged. In afew .states advertisements for help must mentionthe existence of any strike or lockout. The formof register is sometimes specified, to assist inthe collection of information on the conditionof the labor market, but in practice the figuresfrom private agencies have hardly proven worththe pains to gather them. [15] LABOR PROBLEMS AND LABOR LEGISLATION In the main, the regulations placed upon pri-vate employment bureaus have been upheld bythe courts as a reasonable exercise of the policepower in behalf of public welfare. Experiencehas shown, however, that they have not suc-ceeded in wiping out
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