Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-06
WORKERS GREATLY
NEEDED FOR JOBS
OPEN AT CAPITAL

Help is still urgently needed by
the government departments in
Washington. There are available
jobs ranging from $40 a year for
junior aid up to So, 500 for pulp and
paper engineer, announced by the
civil service commission.
Inspectors OF telephone equip
ment are needed. The salary is
81 800 a year Only men are eligi-
Bile. Applicants must be high school
graduates, and must have had three
years experience in manufacturing
testing or installing telephones. In
spectors OF telegraph equipment
who have equal familiarity with
that work will be paid $500 a
year. The pay for inspectors OF
radio equipment is the same, and
inspectors OF vehicles, including
automobiles, will receive 81 500
Salaries of $1,000 are offered for
inspectors OF field glasses who are
familiar with the work
Laboratory assistants and aids in
the bureau OF standards are also in
demand. They will receive from
y
experience, and both men and wo-
men are eligible. More highly quail
flied laboratory assistants may re-
ceive entrance salaries of 81 200 to
$3.50 a year.
Men who want to become appren-
tice fish culturists, at entrance sal
aries of 5000 to $3.50 a year, may
take examinations at various places
in the United States on Nov. 20 and
Dec II. High school graduates can
find places at $40 to s720 a year
as junior aids in the bureau OF
standards.
laboratory at Madison, Wis, will be
filled by the civil service commits
sion, which is seeking a pulp and
paper engineer at salary of IS,
500 year. Applicants will not be
assembled for examination, but will
be rated on sworn statements of
education and experience and cor
roborative evidence obtained by the
commission. Applications should
reach the commission by the clos
ing hour on
bookkeepers. The basic salary is
81 900 a year. Appointments may
be made at higher or lower salar-
les, according to experience and the
results of examinations, which are
given every Tuesday
The department OF agriculture
needs plant pathologists, male and
female, at salaries of $1,000 to 81
400 year, and assistants in plant
nutrition al 1880 a year. Appli-
cations should be prepared prompt
ly.
Locksmiths are wanted by the
postoffice department and in the
treasury department at $3.50 a day
and 81 900 a. year, respectively. The
examination is set for Nov. 5. Wo-
men are eligible for appointment
as copyist topographic craftsmen
as well as men. These positions
pay 81, 100 to $4,000 a year
Editorial clerk examinations will
be given Nov 20 and Dec. II, and
salaries are set at 81 200 to 81 500 a
year. Women may apply for these
positions. Men only, however, may
apply for the position of inspector
of dairy products at $500 to S2.400
a year.
Good jobs for qualified men are
available in the forest service,
which seeks an industrial specialist
in forest products. Salaries range
from 81 500 to $500. according to
and experience. Toluol
experts linen only can get 81 300
to s., 900 year An investigator in
seed marketing is wanted at a sal
airy OF s2,250 to s. 900 a year. Men
who want jobs on Indian reserva-
tions in Oklahoma can find work as
oil gaugers. If they have had the
required experience, at salaries of
81 200 to 81 800 annually.
Physicians are needed for the
Panama canal; junior engineers are
needed by the reclamation service
at 5000 to 500 a year; and in
spectors of engineering material
are required by the navy depart
ment at S448 to $5.92 a day.
Jobs open alike to men and wo-
men include those of balance of
stores clerk, ordnance department,
at 81 200 to $1,000 a year; assist
ant engineer of tests, navy depart
ment, 1916 to 81 90 a day; and as
sistant in the pathological labora-
tory, bureau Of plant industry. ST.
500 a year
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