The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-12-27
DEFENSE COUNCIL
IS HUNTING JOBS
STATE AND COUNTY BODIES CO.
OPERATING TO FIND WORK
FOR SOLDIERS
NEWS OF THE CAPITAL CITY
State Legislature Will Be Requested
to Assist in Settling Returned Sol
diers on Reclaimed Farming
Lands in Montana

Helena.-Through cooperation witt
she state council of defense an6
through it, with the county councils
Camp Lewis expect to find jobs in
Montana for many hundreds of dis
charged soldiers Captain Z. M. Wei
liver arrive in Helena last week from
Camp Lewis and conferred with Chas
ID. Greenfield, secretary of the state
council of defense, who assured him
the state council as well as the coun-
~ councils will be glad to assist in
placing discharged soldiers.
I'VE had no organization to find jobs
for discharged soldiers and did not
have time to build one up, so officers
were sent from Camp Lewis to every
state capital in the northwest to make
arrangements for cooperation with
existing state machinery" said Cap
>iain Wsfnver
"There are 10000 men at Camp Lew
is now. That camp has been designat-
"a as rehabilitation camp and up
wards of 100000 men will probably
pass through 1t during the next four
months. A large percentage of the sol
diers from the northwest came from
rural districts; they have had a taste
of big town life and unless jobs are
awaiting them when they leave the
army, many are disposed to remain in
the cities near the camps. This will
create labor shortage in the rural dis
tricts and a labor surplus in the cities
that might lead to industrial unrest.
For these reasons the military au-
thorities desire to be able to place as
many soldiers in jobs as possible when
they are mustered out. Camp Lewis,
can furnish excellent men for any kind
of work from digging trenches and
farming to banking, civil and mining
engineering chemists, lawyers, clerks
and mechanics of all kinds.
ut is the employers of one or two
men we desire to get in touch with.
Wants of the larger employers are
easily ascertained, but it is the aggre-
gate of the smaller ones that count
ANY individuals or firms needing
men for any kind of work are re-
Hgested TO notify Secretary Greenfield
of the state council of defense, who
will keep in touch with Camp Lewis.
We hope the county councils of de-
Tense will do their best to get in touch
with employers who need men now
or will need them in the future. This
task of assisting in placing the re-
turning soldiers is of just as much
Importance as anything that was done
during the war. If employers will
need men in week, month or two
months, they should so advise the coun-
fy councils or the state council, for
many of the boys will likely desire to
rest while before going to work
Montana should make its plans |
this winter to do as much public work |
as possible next year. Men will be |
as plentiful as they are ever likely |
to be in the future, and if large pro-
gram of highway building is contem-
plated, new buildings or any other
work projected. it will be done as
cheaply next spring as it can be in the
future, and will furthermore afford
employment to discharged soldiers and
enable them gradually to be reabsorb-
ed into civil life with the least dislo-
cation"
Captain Welliver is a Montana man,
a resident of the Bitter Root, where
he was engaged in ranching for nine
years until he Joined the army when
The war first broke out.
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