Excerpt from First Annual Report of the Illinois Free Employment Offices (Nine Weeks), August 2 to October 1, 1899 Considerable space was devoted in the last biennial report of this Bureau to a review of the operation of free employment offices. In support of the demand for a law providing for such agencies in Illinois, particular reference was made to the effects of similar legis lation in other states and foreign countries where the system had been adopted. Much valuable data was obtained, all of which emphasized not only the wisdom, but the increasing necessity of the State at tempting through such means to meet and alleviate the varied wants of the unemployed. Some of the principal reasons urged in favor of the State assuming such functions, was the direct benefit to the com munity resulting from increased employment, without cost either to those requiring or desiring labor, and to protect those honestly seek ing employment from the vicious practices of the private employ ment system, which, to all intents and purposes, has its counterpart only in the padrone and thrives by imposing upon the ignorance and necessities of the unemployed poor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.