1893 - State Library Information Center

FREE PUBLIC EMPLOYMENT OFFICES. 75compensation or fee shall, directly or indirectly, be charged to or received fromany person or persons seeking employment or any person or persons desiringto employ labor through any of said offices.Said superintendents shall make a weekly report, on Thursday of each week,to said commissioner of all persona desiring to employ labor and the classthereof, and all persons applying for employment through their respectiveoffices, and the character of employment desired by each applicant; also of allpersons securing employment through their respective offices and the characterthereof, and a semi-annual report of the expense of maintaining such offices.Said commissioner shall cause to be printed a weekly list of all applicants andthe character of employment desired by them, and of those desiring to employlabor and the class thereof, received by him from the respective officesaforesaid, and cause a true copy of such list on Monday of each week to bemailed to the superintendent of each of said offices in the state, which said listby the superintendent shall be posted immediately on receipt thereof in a conspicuousplace in his office, subject to the inspection of all persons desiringemployment. Raid superintendents shall perform such other duties in thecollection of labor statistics as said commissioner shall determine. Any superintendentor clerk, as herein provided, who, directly or indirectly, charges orrecives any compensation from any person whomsoever in securing employmentor labor for any other person or persons m provided in this act shall bedeemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in any sum not exceeding fiftydollars, and imprisoned in the county jail or workhouse not exceeding thirtydays.The superintendent of each of said offices shall receive a salary, to be fixedby the council of the city, payable monthly. The clerk or clerks required inany of such offices shall receive a salary of not more than fifty dollars permonth; provided, the compensation of such superintendents and clerks soappointed shall be paid out of the city treasury in which such free public employmentoffice may be located.Its prime features provide, first, for the collection of statisticaldata relating to the industrial interests of the State; second, toassist employers to secure employes; third, to furnish workingmenand women, when out of employment, free and reliable informationas to the kind and character of employment to be had.By carrying out of the objects of the law, observed the OhioCommissioner of Labor Statistics in his 1890 report, the entireState will be benefited, and the government certainly cannotundertake a more charitable or honorable and praiseworthy actthan that of securing employment for her willing yet needy citizenlaborer. And in his succeeding report, 1891, the Commissionerviews with considerable satisfaction the result of the workof these offices, which, from the time their doors were first thrownopen to the public, have been of such pronounced beneficial char-