The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-12-25
MUST FIND WORK FOR
RETURNED SOLDIERS
Employnsnt for Returned Soldiers
3 Community Responsi sibiIit ~
cooperation Necessary.

sidered or adopted by the govern
nent for replacing soldiers and sail
Eors in Industrial occupation upon
their discharge from the service
have been unified BY an order issued.
BY the Attorney General Of the army
under date of November %. This or
der provides for the establishment
Of a general employment service for
the benefit of returning soldiers, in
the form Of an Employment Bureau
in every city and large town
It is. believed that soldiers after
being discharged at camp and sent
home, as a rule will prefer to seek
work at their respective homes ra-
ther than from any agencies at the
camps. :@ = =. -. >~.s> 81
The task Of finding them occupa-
tions thus becomes a community re-
sponsibility. The function of the
employment service is to concentrate
at central points cooperative local
efforts and all information as to po-.
sitions; to furnish means Of com.
munication as to labor supply and
needs between communities, and to
inform soldiers in camp where and
how to proceed on reaching home.
The organization Of Bureaus
throughout the state should be
started at once. The local offices of
the Community Labor Boards and
the Public Service Reserve agents
should be used and assistance from
other organizations should be OBJ
tanned in places where the service
has no representative. Cooperation
of mayors, Local Councils of De-
fense, Labor Unions, Chambers. of
Commerce, Draft Board members,
County farm agents and other or
ganizations interested should be
sought everywhere and every encour-
agement given their efforts, giving
them representatives in offices if
wanted, and share in local manage
ment.
r. .is service will furnish. central.
clearing house and uniform system.
Where existing employment serv-
ice offices are not advantageously 10:
Gated, offices should be opened in
public buildings or. other desirable
places, securing if possible local con-
tributions Of rent and all volunteer
assistance available.
The Safety Commission will tele-
graph representatives Of the employ
ment service in the camps where
men from Minnesota have been sent,
the address of each such office in
this state as soon as it is opened,
and the names of the men in charge.
+ The work will be done by each
community and facilities given to
this service by the government are
for purposes of GENERALIZATION of in
formation and inter-community
clearances. Every community will
understand that every effort should
be made to get men back to the
farms. The planned extremely rapid
demobilization Of the army on a uni
.ty basis while INDUSTRIAL changes are
pending, and during winter months,
presents to the country the problem
Of readjustment in it's most difficult
form and renders imperative imme-
diate and most energetic action and
cooperation of the best organizing
ability Of every community.
The Adjutant General of the Army
has arranged that only representa-
tives of the Employment Service will
be authorized to deal directly with
the troops. An employment repre-
sentative will be established in each
camp. .5.: ....: -