The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-30

o-o-o-o * Here is what the K. of c. has done to help the returned soldier in the northwestern states: Finds 70, O,O23 jobs open for men back from France. Rejects all offers of less tEan * SIS a week.
 Places 3s,312 men at an aver age of SPA a week, a total of 7 $49,O61,376 a year.
 Gives vocational training and " educational guidance to 21,l13 applicants for better jobs.
 Puts discharged soldiers to ., work in 131 varied occupations . and professions.
 Locates several opportunities " at the high salary of s7,000 a year : and discovers men qualified to E fill them. Sees more yet to do and keeps right on with the work. o-o-o-o "
 Fifty million dollars a year! That is a lot of money. It represents the yearly earnings of 39,312 discharged soldiers who have been placed in the professions and the trades in the Northeastern States through the ef- forts of the Knights of Columbus. Not one of these men has been sent to job that pays him less than SIS a week-the K. of c. does not consider offers of less than that sum for the work of a returned soldier. The story of what has been done in seventy-f1ve days by the K-C to open the door of opportunity to Overseas Men reads like a romance of the modern business world. First of all the K. of c. sent out an army of sol dier and sailor canvassers. They visited 24S,384 employers in the New | England States, New York, New Jer- l sey. Pennsylvania, Delaware and | Maryland. They found OOPS jobs waiting for capable men.
 The work in the northeastern states | constitutes about one half of the na- l tionaI effort of the K. of C. The ! statistics for the other sections of the i country have not yet been completed Let Peter w. Collins tell the story | He is Director General of the Re l construction and Employment Service l of the Knights of Columbus. He is ! proud of what has been accomplish 1 ed.
 | Tn the Northeastern states alone we have found employment for 39,- | SIP men," said MT. Collins. "Proba- | bly an equal number have been placed i in other sections of the country. IT 1 the northeastern territory the aver | age wage is twenty-four dollars g week.
 The total annual income for the | 39,312 men therefore is $49,O61, 876 ! or almost S50,OOO,OOO. In the jobs | found by our canvassers there arc represented 131 varied occupations and professions. Several men were found capable of filling $7,00O veal vacancies discovered by our employ
 ment scouts. We rejected all con
 sideration of jobs that offered les!
 than SIS a week. We did not wan
 any man who had risked his life fol
 his country to accept less than that
 for we figured that was the smalles
 sum on which he could live properl! and cleanly as an American citizen.
 we were astontshed to find tha | more than 500 of the first 5000 em
 ployers listed as needing workmeI
 wanted to pay only from s7 to SIP |; | week. These were what might b, | called silk stocking jobs and we didn' bother with them. We went afte the cotton sock and beefsteak ant
 potatoes stuff for men. And VI | found it to an extent that exceeded ! our expectations.
 we discovered early in the gam
 that many of the men had becom
 imbued with ambitious thoughts 1 They wanted better jobs than the.
 had before they went to war. VI
 sympathized with their aspirations
 However, many of them were no
 fitted for the kind of work they want
 ed, so, in order to put our sym
 pathetic understanding to practica
 use, we employed teachers and gav
 vocational teaching and educations
 guidance to 21,113 soldiers. Unde
 this training nearly all qualified fo
 positions in higher fields than the
 had known before they went France