62 BIENNIAL REPORT OP DEPARTMENTS OP AGRICULTURE 



The Need for a Public Employment Service: 



There is obvious need for a tree public employment service for the 

 purpose of ascertaining the extent and causes of the unemployment of 

 wage-earners, a grievous problem of modern industry, and to make 

 known the opportunities for self employment. 



This agency should be made a part of the Labor Department and 

 should be charged with the duty of receiving applications from per- 

 sons seeking employment and applications from employers seeking 

 employees, to make known remedies for unemployment and to avoid 

 the unemployment of wage earners. There should also be made pro- 

 visions for securing employment for those who are physically or men- 

 tally handicapped, all of these services to be rendered without fee or 

 perquisit. 



Such an act should give the Commissioner of Agriculture, Labor 

 and Statistics, the authority to co-operate and enter in agreements 

 with the United States Employment Service and any civic, commer- 

 cial, trade, school or labor organization in the Commonwealth for the 

 purpose of carrying out the provisions of such an act. 



