Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-09
BIG JOB TO
FIND JOBS
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS GET
THOUSANDS,
Even Badly Disabled Men Are
Quickly Placed by Earnest
WOrkerS-VeteranS Paid
to Find Work.

Nhch James White, u. s. Marine,
was operating machine gun mt Cha
teau Thicrry, he did it with yieor and
vim, as every good Marine always does
everything with vigor and vim. Now,
Jimmy White, instead of blazing away
with a machine gun of war. Is blazing
away with machine gun Of peace
operating Il hlgh-speed mimeogrnph
machine In hish-speed way, and with
one arm.
Jimmy got his at Chateau Thlerry--
three pieces of shrapnel in his arm.
1t had to come off to save Jlmlhy y
life. Nothing daunted, he let 1t part
company with him. And he was blue
very blue. for long time. Until, In
the hospital. looking dolefully at the
place where his arm used to be, Jimmy
was accosted by n Knights Of Colum-
bus secretary, who told him to cheer
up aud figure on getting nice, snappy
Job when he returned home.
Jimmy White was cynic. lie didn't
believe nice, snappy jobs came to one
armed men. He thought he was
through rs n useful citizen He was
dlsillusioned once he struck home. The
X. of c. lined hlln up with % other
veterans, put them In automobiles and
paid them 81 per day to scout for Jobs
for their comrades and themselves.
Jimmy found n job the second day
out--in big advertising plant, operat-
Ing the mimeograph $1,000 the busiest
mimcograph in the world, Jimmy
thinks.
This idea Of the II. of c. of paid
veteran job finders is resulting In SIX
hundred jobs each day for domobllzel
soldiers aud sailors, ana the same fig
ures, In proportion, holds good in hun
dreds Of other cities The knights
conduct more than 100 employment
bureaus throughout the country Re
suits on proportionate scale are be
Ing obtained throughout the country.
1t was rather a bold idea which the
knights of Columbus put into effect
when they recruited hundreds of young
veterans of the war--soldlerS, sailors
and marines-and put them on the
knights Of Columbus pay roll at the
rate of S4 per day TO find Jobs for their
comrades and incidentally for them
selves
While The. Il tights, through their
secretaries and Individual members Of
their organization, had ALREADY found
hundreds of jobs for cX-service men,
the same story of doing the right thing
by the returned men was beginning to
lose something of lis punch. 50 Jos
eph G. Pclletier. X. of c. supreme all
vocate and a member of the X. of G.
committee on war activities, hit upon
the idea of letting the returned men
present their own arguments TO en- |
ployers. The scheme was instantly I.
adopted, and within week Peter W. /
Collins, late government industrial OK
pert, who is director of the K.-C. en- f.
ploymCnt and reconstruction bureau, |.
had enlisted the one hundred men he .
needed, and the drive was started .
against the out-of-Work line by the /
same men who had helped smash the .
Hindenhurg line.
Dividing the city into zones Of man .
ufacturing and commercial centers ana
splitting up the small, compact army
Of 100 into squads of ten. each squad .
headed by an experienced K.-C. work .
er, who coached the veterans in their .
manner Of approach, the attack was
made
The men presented themselves in
talking teams of two and three before
employment managers in large Offices
and factory superintendent IN large
plants. In as few words as possible
they presented the reasons why the
men they represented should be given
immediate employment On the first
day, with record of 900 places WIS.,
itef. n total Of JS1 Jobs were captured
All told, the Knights have placed over
$4,000 veterans in good jobs nll over
the country. There are 81, 200 Knights
now organized to find jobs for veter-
ans.