State Free Employment Offices Gazette Volume 1, Nos. 1-7 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...filled." Applicants who thus abuse the privileges offered free of expense to them will, when located, be denied further registration. In many cases there has been a variance in the wages offered over the telephone and the wages offered when the applicant appeared in person. UNSKILLED HELP--MALE. The unskilled worker continues to be strongly in evidence. The registration in this department averages over a hundred daily. While scores are pnt to work, new faces appear from day to day, and the clerks in this department are kept busy attending to registration and the demands for situations. Now that Spring is near at hand, the demand for farm laborers is increasing, and many men who are out of work and tired of looking for employment in the city are willing to try their hands at farming. We can supply several hundred men who are willing to do laborer's work. We can also supply cooks, waiters, and hotel help of every description at short notice. SKILLED FEMALE HELP. The list of experienced and competent bookkeepers, stenographers, office girls, and cashiers is steadily increasing, and includes applicants from Allston, Beverly, Brighton, Cambridge, Charlestown, Dedham, Dorchester, Everett, Lowell, Maiden, Milton, Nahant, Newton, Quincy, Roslindale, Roxbury, Salem, Somerville, Swampscott, Waltham, and Wayland. There seems to be a feeling among the business men that we have only the poorer class of clerks registered in this office, when, in reality, the applicants are competent and trustworthy, and many have been holding responsible positions with large salaries. One, in particular, is capable of taking charge of a broker's office or a real estate office and has been receiving $25 a week, thus demonstrating the fact that this office does not simply register ine...