New-York tribune., 1919-05-20
More Than 1000 Service
Men Added to Unemploy-
ment Total Here Every
Z Days, Says Kirchwey
Demand Skilled Workers
Surplus of Clerical Help
Still Noticeable; List of
Shortages is Compiled

New York is providing employment
weekly for less than 5000 of the sol
dlers, sailors and marines who are dis
charged from government service with.
out prospects of work.
Each week more than 1000 DISCHARGED
service men report that they can't find
Jobs. They are added to the ranks OF
the unemployed, which DR.. George w
hlrchwey, State Director of the United
States Employment Service, saws mum.
bers more than 100000.
Yet there are more Jobs offered bv
employers than there are applicants
Tor them. This condition is said to be
que to a great surplus of clerical. or
unskilied help, while the demand is for
workers. skilled in particular industries
TO five organizations which have
undertaken to solve the unemployment
problem The Tribune yesterday put
this question::
what is the city doing to find jobs
Tor men mustered out of the service ?''
What Is Being Done
a summary of what is being done is
shown by this table, which gives the
weekly number of applicants for Jobs.
Of men placed and of jobs reported as
open:
Appl- Men Jobs
cants placed. open.
>, Of New York City L. 600 600 5000
ment Service ~ ...'.. 1000 $500 1000
: !, M; G: e. A......... 155 100 200
77th Division is ''pus Bupeau 800 800 100 IoS SS SoS
Totals ..............7,13o 1850 s.71o
The figures show that there are
weekly 2,2S0 more applicants than
there are men placed in Jobs and that
the number of jobs offered exceeds
the number of men placed by $3.50.
The Unemployment Bureau of New
York City, sos Pearl Street, which is
appealing to 10000 employers through
the Merchants Association and eighty
four other employers associations. since
1t began three weeks ago has received
tive times as many offers of Jobs as it
has had men capable of filling thelf.
OF the 1l.057 jobs offered in that time
only 1850 have been filled.
Skilled Men Wanted
William Fellowes Morgan, president
Of the Merchants Association, who is
chairman of the bureau, has compiled
d list of more than 100 skilled men
who are urgently wanted in industry.
Here arc the kinds of skilled workers
who, he says, can finds jobs, if they
apply to the bureau:
farm hands and gardeners. garment
ers. painters and paper hangers, struct-
ufaf IRON workers, casual workers.
chemical, oil and paint workers, glass
and stone workers, stenographers and
typists, garment and textile workers.
laborers, skilled woodsmen, experi
enced auto mechanics, machine hands
and specialists, polishers, buffers. plat
ers, etc, Welders and cutters, helDers
and mandy men, most trades, printers
and pressmen, feeders and bindery
workers, rlveters, clippers. caulkers,
reamers, shipfitters and other ship
building workers, sta ablemen and de-
llverymen, bandsmen, solicitors, ship
ping and stock clerks, packers, cabinet
makers and furniture fnishers, ma
chine woodworkers, apprentices most
trades, bakery and confectionery work
ers, cigar, cigarette and tobacco work
ers, walters and boys, cooks and
chefs, kitchen and pantry workers, ele-
Vator operators, watchmen and jan
itors.
On the other hand opportunities are
wanted for bookkeepers. accountants,
cashiers, office clerks, electricians, pipe
htters, plumbers and stationary cnei-
neers.
10 help make the supply of idle
workers suitable to the demand the
bureau has opened a vocational guild
ance department in charge of Irving
H. Vlning, who is cndeavoring to in
ouce employers to open up apprentice
SHIPS to unskilled wnrknrs