The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-02
But Topeka Employers See q
Silver Lining in Cloud.
VIII "Take Care" of Just Two
Glasses After the War.
SOLDIERS GET JOBS BACK
Men Who "Stick" Will Also
Have Place of Honor.
But Those Who "Jump" to Jobs
Left by Soldiers in Disfav0r.

Just two classes of working people
will find themselves taken care of in
the great period of reconstruction fol-
lowing the war. One includes the fell
lows who stick by their jobs and their
employers during the war. The other
takes in those who go to the war and
risk their lives for their country.
A talk with any business or indus
trial man in Topeka any day or any
time will convince one of the veracity
of the above statements. True. they
are bowling and scraping, begging and
imploring, oftentimes, to keep ems
ployes who see dollar before their
nose in the form of a better job, one
left vacated by a man who has left
to fight for his country.
But, the employer knows the time
is coming when an opportunity viii
come knocking at his door to even all
the trouble dollar wise. pound fool
ish empIoye may cause when help IL
scarce and demand great. There is
day in the future when the country
will literally be flooded with soldier
boys from the army. calling for their
triotism in the heart of an employer
hen give him his job he left to carry
the stars and stripes into Berlin.
Soldiers Get Jobs Back.
The public sentiment behind these
boys home from the trenches would
be sufficient in itself ITO force us to
give them back their jobs" said d To-
peka employer today That's not in
Guiding our sense of fairness and
sense of patriotism
The help question is gnawing at the
very vitais of an intense. throbbing in
dustrlal life, Topeka employers admit
JOBS by the score are open in every
vocation and the demands for higher
wages is felt at.every hand. In many
instances, rival concerns crippled be-
ffr.~.
money than the positions vacated are
worth
Common sense points out that such
concerns are going to permit employees
70 mold them up just such a length
OF time as is absolutely necessa rv.
Some day. sometime the boys are com
ing back, prices are going to fall.
WAGES are going down and EMPLOYERS
ana former employees, who are now
soldiers, are going to fall into each
others arms. That is the consola-
ton of employers at this time while
they force a grin and reach down in
their pockets for more money to pay
wages never dreamed of three years
ago.
Keep "F'ellows Who Stick
THE fellows who stick with us viii
pc taken care of in the years to come
II they attend to their knitting" said
the Topeka employer today. so win
the soldier boys. But these other fell
| "'iO oil e tdhlHg advantage OF the
| help question to demand exorbits M
wages and are deserving their bosses
In pinch for the sake of few more
dollars they can earn in a new Job
now, without thinking of the hereafter
well they'll get theirs"
On the other hand, every fair mind
ed employer admits that an Increase
IN wages is necessary to keep pace
with the sky rocketing in food, fuel
ana ciothing prices. Some refuse to
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| called in short order under the pre-
sent status of the help question. Yet.
| 1t is wise employe who when he goes
to another job these days receives a
guarantee that the new job will be
his job when the war ends, his services
being satisfactory