Industrial Employment Information Section. The Industrial Employment Information Section, headed by a Director, is one of the four coördinate technical supervision units. It has control and direction of the work of gathering and disseminating information as to the incidence and amount of industrial unemployment. The Director is immediately responsible to the Director General, and in addition to his other duties he acts (unofficially) as advisor and assistant to the Director General and as District Director for District No. 5. In this latter work he is assisted by an examiner, who is assigned to the Director's office but listed as a member of the district headquarters staff and paid from district funds. For the purpose of gathering information in the field the Section has divided the country into nine districts, recognizing state lines. Each of these districts is under the supervision of a district director who (with certain exceptions') is an employee of the Service and is paid by the Section. There are a number of states in each district and a number of cities in each state from which information is drawn. Usually there is but one employee in each city and such employees are designated generally as special agents." The local agents report directly to the district director without regard to state lines, and the latter, in turn, is directly responsible to the Director of the Industrial Employment Information Section. While most of the employees in the field are paid from sources other than the Employment Service, and receive but a nominal compensation from the Service (usually one dollar per annum) in order to give them status as federal employees, they are (unlike the State Coöperation group) under the control of the Director of the Section and are subject to appointment and dismissal by him. Table II will give a clearer idea of the field organization. section" this unit functions as one of the main sub divisions of the Service. The District No. 5 headquarters office is located in Washington as an experimental and model station. The exceptions are District No. I in which the director is paid by the Division of Conciliation, Districts No. 2 and No. in which he is paid by the Bureau of Immigration, and District No. 5 where the Director of the Industrial Employment Information Section acts also as district director, being paid as the former. 'The exceptions are the largest cities. "The titles "examiner " and " stenographer" (in the larger offices) also occur. |