From The Indianapolis News, Thursday, November 4, 1915: Opportunities to find employment at day labor, with an average daily wage of $1.75 (2014: $40.36), are so plentiful that the U. S. Department of Labor, with Indianapolis headquarters in the Federal Building, is experiencing difficulty in providing men for those needing laborers. John S. Sherman, who is in charge of the Indianapolis bureau, recently established a card index system with such good results that a man may now obtain the desired kind of work in nearly every state in the Union. A total of 100 men have received employment through the agency. While the greater demand comes from farmers who need cornhuskers, there is a brisk demand for men to work at day labor doing what is termed “odds and ends” at private residences.