Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1918-11-05
new JOBS ARE
AVAILABLE FOR
DISABLED men
Men Crippled in War Will Be
Fitted for Remunerative
Work; Survey Shows
Positions Available.

Washington, Nov. 5.-Plans for
training and placing in remunera-
tive positions soldiers and sailors
manned in the war worked out by
the United States Employment SER
vice and the Federal Board of
Vocational Education are ready to
be put into operation.
The employment service has IN
structed its representatives through
out the country to obtain informa-
ton that will be helpful in the
placement of partially disabled SOL
diers and sailors. Surveys of labor
needs will be made in conference
with employers to determine where
such men can be used efficiently.
Representative In Hospitals.
The Board of Vocational Edr
cation will maintain in each hos
pital for the treatment of wounded,
representative who will confer
with disabled men before their dis
charge from the hospital. II a
man desires to continue i'll the oc-
cupation he was engaged in before
the war and is fitted for it, help
will be given him in finding work
in that calling; should his injuries
make it necessary for him to seek
new means of livelihood, he will
be advised of the lines in which he
can enter without finding his IL
\ juries a handicap and a course of
training in the work to be adopted
will be offered. Every effor. will
be made to assist disabled men to-
ward that .cupation in which they
are most interested and for which,
because of aptitude and experience
on one hanL and handle ps on the
other, they are best suited.
Referred To Local Board.
After the vocational adviser has
assisted the recuperating patient to
Goose a suitable occupation, his
case, with full information, will be
referred to local board in his COM
munity made up OF two represen-
tatives of the district employment
office, one a physician, two repre-
sentatives chosen from the locality,
one to be an employer and the
other representatives of LABOR.
The board will see to his training,
and while it is in progress he will
be supported by the government
and given the same allotment and
family allowance for dependents as
when he was in military or naval
service. His expenses, in the main,
will be covered from the compen-
sation provided in the vocation !
rehabilitation act.
Manufacturing establishments, Of
fees and farms will be used to give
preliminary training, especially for
those occupations not yet regarded
as being within the school or col
lege field. Afterward, through the
Employment service, permanent
suitable position will be found Tor
him., The board will keep in touch
as friend and adviser for such
period after employment is found
as may be necessary to complete
his re-establishmNt as a civilian
worker.
Ford Has Many Openings.
A canvass recently made at the
Ford Mot, plant at Detroit, show
ed the l., loving:
Jobs that oould be filled by leg
less men, go; by one-legged men,
1867; by one-armed men, us; by
totally blind men, 10. The time es-
timated to become efficient at these
jobs is estimated for l,74S, one day
or less; for 1,46l, one day to one
week; for PSI, one week to two
weeks; for 543, one month to one
var; for 43, one to six years.