Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-11
PLACES OPEN TO
HURT SOLDIERS
State Authorities Have Ar
ranged For Work For Over
$4,000 of Them Already

Pennsylvania has 42,111 places
open in its industries for any SOL
diers or sailors who may be dis
abled in the war, according to Of
hcers of the employment bureau of
the State Department of Labor and
Industry More than half of these
are available to men who may be
crippled. They call for skilled men
and training will be provided The
places range from factories to store,
including even dairies.
The places are the result of a call
by tie State upon industries and it
is announced as follows:
"On March l, the total number of
employment openings, so classified
was 30,710. This number has in
creased to 42,111 to May 1. and is
constantly growing, as replies are
still being received. Every Penn
sylvania employer who can give en-
ployment to war crlpples, handi-
capped, by various disabilities, Il
urged to notify, at once, the De-
partment of Labor and Industry
Harrisburg.
The report of the progress of this
work in Pehnsylvania-the first
state in the Union to cooperate act
lively with the National authorities
in the effort to prevent war cripples
from being shunted merely into by
product industrial tasks-was sub
mitted to Acting Commissioner Lew
r. Palmer, of the Department OF
Labor and Industry. by Jacob Light
ner. Director of the Bureau of EN-
ployment. The report was in turr
transmitted by Acting Commissioner
Palmer to Adjutant General Frank ID
Beary. Chairman of the PennsylVa-
mia State Committee on Reconstruc'
tion, Re-education and Re-employ-
ment of Crippled Soldiers, Sailors
and Marines. That committee in
cluding Acting Health Commission
er p. Frank Boyer; Acting Commits
sioner of Labor and Industry Lew
r. Palmer and DR.. J. George
Becht. Secretary of the State Board
of Education, has general supervi'
sion of the reconstruction program
for the Commonwealth.
"The National authorities are
planning to equip each disabled sol
dier and sailor with every suitable
appliance to bring his physical eff
ficiency to a maximum and to give
him suitable treatment and training
to adapt him for tasks in industry
he can most advantageously per-
form. From the classified employ
ment lists of the Department of La
Dor and Industry, each Pennsylvania
soldier sailor and marine, disabled
in war service will be able to OBJ
tain, from thousands of openings
in his home state, n task for whicf
he is best suited physically, a tasl
that will give him greatest financia
return according to his capabilitl
and probably in the city or towT
where he most desires to reside.
"The QUESTIONABLE sent to en-
ployers by the Department of Labor
and Industry. designated 3S genera
classes of disability which might re
suit from war wounds to handicaI
the. soldier or sailor when he de
sires to engage in industrial work
These disabilities include loss of one
or both of upper eXtremities II
whole or in part. stiffness of uppel
eXtremities in whole or in part. loss
of one or both of lower eXtremitie'
in whole or in part, blindness of on
or both eyes, deafness of one or boil
ears, loss of speech, repulsive facla
disfgurements. hernia and genera
health impairment which would pre-
vent heavy manual labor