Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-12-26
SPECIAL EMPLOYMENT
 SYSTEM IS NECESSARY
 TO GET SOLDIERS JOBS
Duty of Communities to See That Op- pOrtunity Is Given Men to Find Con- genial Employment.
By Frederic J. HaSkin.

By Frederic J. IiasEin.
 Washington, Dec. 25 The fact that many discharged American soldiers, sailors and war workers are loafing alout the streets of the large cities, without jobs or even prospects of jobs, has aroused the government to the need of special employment system to take care of situation that is rapidly developing into a serious problem.
 After several conferences, the Fed cral Employmer' Service of the De- partment of Lator, the. Council of National Defense and the United War Workers have combined to form sort of employment net through which it will be next to impossible for any soldier, sailor or war worker in- advertently to slip.
 Take the. case of the soldier. No man will be permitted to leave a de- mobilization camp without thorough instruction and advice as to the em- ployment opportunities awaiting him on his return to his home town. First, a representative of the United War Workers will explain them to him, talk over his abilities with him and attempt to guide him to a congenial job. Second, a representative of the United States Employment Service will talk to him; go over the list of employment opportunities in his par ticular section of the country with him. and try to fit him into one of them.
 Suppose that before the war a man has been a plumber in Milwaukee. His natural inclination would be to go back to Milwaukee and plumbing. But the employment service agent may know that Milwaukee has afr the plumbers it can possibly keep busy. and his duty, therefore is to advise the man either to accept some other form of employment i'll Milwaukee or to go to some other town which is desperately in need of plumbers.
 But how, you may ask, does the employment service agent obtain this detailed knowledge of what is needed in various cities? The answer is that the Employment Service of the De- partment of Labor has kept it's fin ger on the pulse of industry for the
 
 lv what the opportunities for employ ment are in ali sections of the coun- try Such information as it does not happen to have it is now gathering. It has over 1,5S0 community labor boards, composed each of one repre- sentative of employers, one represen- tative of labor and one representative of the service. It also maintains Sa0 employment officers. and has a staff of volunteer agents in various places In addition to these facilities, It IS now opening bureaus for returning soldiers, sailors and war workers Ill every city and town in the United States.
 These bureaus are under the dlrec- tion of the community labor boards, wherever there are such boards, ana , under the direction of the community council of defense where there is no community labor board. Each bureau l is to have bureau manager ana | working staff. It's duty is to canvass 1 it's locality for employment opportun- ities and to tabulate them. This infor- nation may be furnished the employ ment agent at the demoblization camp whenever he writes for infOrma- ton, and in return the employment agent may furnish the bureau with the army record of applicant, whose name has been submitted for a posi- tion, In this way the bureau is in dir ect touch with every demoblllzatlon camp, and the government is in touch with both. It has it's forces working on the employers in the mans home town. All the man has to do is to ap- Div to his local bureau for returning soldiers, sailors and war workers when he goes home and he is almost certain to find job waiting for him.
 This much the government has done. The rest must be done by each com munity and each family. A certain responsibility rests upon the commu- nity in the matter of employing men
 who have gone to war to insure Us |peace and prosperity.
 Ut is the duty of every com
 n.nn:ty," says the Department o, Labor. "to see that every possible opportunity is given to them to set i, iots-and the best jobs for which K they are qualified. These men gave H up their work at the country's cal
  | their old positions are open; Witt | others, such is not the case. Sti' II ,lhera rave acquired new purpos an' II strength and in many cases neV II skill. which fits them for better Worl II than they did formerly. lt IS noti H a national and a community duty t II see that, as they come back, every thing is done to enable them lc le Il turn to the positions in wh;ch the II c:n do the most effective work M A certain responsibility also rest M upon mans family, which shoul
 encourage and aid him in Scttln
 work The government. through th
 Woman's Committee of the Counc
 of National Defense, is seeking tn support of every mother, wife an
 sister in this important phase of re construction. For experience ha II shown that is hard for a returnln