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UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE. The United States Employment Service (USES) is an agency of the federal government of the United States responsible for "assisting coordination of the State public employment services in providing labor exchange and job finding assistance to job seekers and employers".
Around 1890, both the United States and European governments created government-funded employment offices to provide work for unemployed unskilled laborers. These services proved to be unsuccessful. In 1933 during the GREAT DEPRESSION, the USES was reinstated “to set minimum standards, develop uniform administrative and statistical procedures, publish employment information, and promote a system of "clearing labor" between states." After President Franklin D. Roosevelt created many government-funded work projects to help boost the economy the USES was responsible for hiring the workers on those projects. The USES operated originally in only a few states but by WORLD WAR II, it was operating in all states. In the United States home front during World War II, the service coordinated employment of prisoners of war (e.g., using German POWs at Gettysburg for local pulpwood cutting).
Like many labor organizations of its time, the USES stated a belief in racial equality in the workplace, yet it provided fewer jobs for its African American workers.
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"United States Employment Service," Wikipedia. Online: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Employment_Service
The 1939 Dubuque City Directory and 1942 Dubuque Classified Business Directory 505 Main.
The 1945 Dubuque City Directory listed 36-38 W. 4th.