Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-07
MORE JOBS WAITING THAN
SOLDIERS TO FILL THEM
This Is What the Knights Of Columbus
Have Discovered In Their Work
Of Caring for Returned Men
UCEE 'cm through -

| NCEE 'cm through -
! ~ That is the slogan of the Knights OF
| Columbus The boys who went to France
| know this welfare organization rather well.
/ for X. of E.. workers were with them in the
| environments during the months Of training
| here. followed them into the battle areas OF
| France. saw them safe home again. and now
| are finishing up their self appointed task by
| getting them jobs.
Tho Knights of Columbus went about their
war work quietly. so that perhaps they are
| better known in the service than out OF it.
| OF late they have been making themselves
| more inSstently known to the public than
! in the days of the war--nnd with very
| definite purpose. Quite possibly they have
! brought their organization forcibly to the
| notice Of the reader most certainly they
| have if he is an employer of labor. For now
| that the war is over the "Caseys, as the
| mon in service call them afectonately, are
using every means they can think of to get
Jobs for returned soldiers. Any man who
| has job to fill is fair game for h of c.
secretaries. They will hunt that job down.
| list it. find out the qualifications for filling
| it and. if it be humanity possible. put in it an
OK service man.
Ii'ST at present the job bunting campaign
- is occupying good deal of the time and
energy Of tho Knights Of Columbus organiza
tion. It is the big thing to do right now.
as other welfare organizations and the fed
"raI government luIIy recognize lhe coun
| try cannot get PACK INTO normal running
order untli IN" boys VINO "ent overseas 10
fight have been placed in paying jobs.
To this end the Knights of Columbus are
maintaining 1900 labor units" throughout
the l'nitcd States The work which the Phil
adciphla unit is DONG is typical OF the rest.
me campaign to bring jobs and looless
service men together was lnaugurated June 8
with parade. Inc hrst step was to make
an industrial canvass OF the city Ihls was
done oF men JUST OUT or the service Inc
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NOR the purposes of the canvass the city
7 was divided into districts and these dis
,rihutod omone tho teoms Everv emnlover
Of labor vas visited. his labor wants ascer-
toincd and n card catalogue record made Of
thon, Kn;ohts of Columbus labor head
quarters here have n record AT present of
orders received from such big employers OF
labor as the BALDWIN Locomotive orKs ana
llog lsland. Inc ~ OF I. laoor secretaries
are not waiting Tor men 10 come IN ana ask
Tor JOBS. lheE are gong out aiter the men,
by adVertlsing ana by the use OF laoor SCOUTS.
The job opportunities are so many that IL
VIII take Perhaps months 10 hnu So'oiers u
NIL them. Inc intensive WORK Will end IN
week or so. lhat VIII NOT mean that the ~
OF [. VIII cease 10 lst Jops 1or "h,ch men
are wanted lhe4 are eager TO oe toid ABOUT
any good Joo "nlch soiuier Ut sailor
conld NIL
TT Is worth mentioning that only good Joos
are wanted. The X of &. men in charge
of the work have fixed SIS a week as the
minimum pay worth considering, and the
higher. of course. the better. There have
been some rather good jobs listed-such as
n yearly salary of $4,000 to S25OO for archi-
tectural draftsmensor $1,000 yearly for an ad.
writer Strange to say. it is harder to find
men qualified to fill these better paid jobs
thap il is to find the jobs for high class men.
The Knights of Columbus are fully alive
to the bigness and Importance of their EN-
pIoymcnt work. They do not lose sight of
other work which is quite as essential to
NOR instance. there is their work at the
i piers Until quite recently the X. of c.
sent secretaries back and forth between
American and French ports on the troop
ships This has been discontinued, three of
the welfare organizations. the I. M. I. a.
the X. of c. and the Jewish Welfare Board.
combining. on the supply of standard gift
packages which are sent over to France and
distributed on the way back by ships officers.
The secretaries are on the job at every
mort of debarkation on this side. greeting the