New-York tribune., 1919-03-03
Finding Jobs
For 18th Men
Begins To-day
More Than ~, 900 N. Y.
Soldiers Expect to Return
TO Former Places Here
Others Seek Assistance
Chaplain. Secretaries. Mule
Driver, Clerks and l.n,,,.
dryman Ask for Positions

WORK of finding jobs for 5000 mon
ol the 71th Division in advance ~
their home coming will begin to.dav
with the opening of n special employ
mont bureau nt $50 Madison Avenue
Major J. Fullerton Weaver. chairman
al the nth Division AHsociation. yos
torday delivered to +. T.. Wood, assiat
ant Federal director Of the United
STATES Employment Service. tho records
OF all men In tho division who are
not certain Of finding jobs awaiting
flem on their feiuin The record !
lllled small ron.bound box which
Major Weaver brought from France.
canvass OF the membera Of the dlvI
SION IN trance showed that ~ 400 Of
the men expect to return TO heir old
jobs.
me employment service, cooperating
with Major Weaver's bureau, will have
ABOUT month in which to find Jobs
for the $500 men.
The 18th Division Association was
termed by direction Of Major General
alexander shortly after the signing of
the armlsticc, to mark the graves of
the T7th's dead and TO compile a list
OF those who would need Jobs on their
return. The executive committee of II. :
asSoclatlon is Major Weaver Major
julius O. Adler Major James A Roosc-
Welt, Major Lewis Saunders aAd Cap
tain George G. McMurty.
How Jobs Are Sought
Major Weaver yesterday thus de-
scrlbed how the jobs will be sought:
the first step will be letter to
iormer employers in an endeavor to
eliminate some Of the 5000 The rest
VIII be classified according to trades
and the cards placed on file in the
''th's employment bureau. under the
care Of Gordon L. Sawyer. Special agent
OF the United States Employment Ser
vice. The men will be asked to fill
out an occupational card based on the
trade specifications index used by the
army, which VIII show at a glance
exactly the type of work each can do.
Inc cards are on their way to France
and will be turned over to the employ
ment service when the division returns.
W lth this information in hand the
employment service Will be able to re-
fer the men immediately to the omen
ings which Will be found in the mean
time The work OF canvassing the
city has already begun under the di-
rcc.ion of The United Council for Re
employment. composed of the war vel
fare organizations cooperating with
the employment service. AT the same
time the council is urging all en-
ployers who are willing to give posi-
lions to New York men dcbarred from
their former places to file their re-
quirements with the employment bu-
reau.
To Aid Out-of- Town Men
MANY Of the men whose cards ap-
pear among those now on file at the
employment services Headquarters.
469 Fifth Avenue, live in other sec
tons Of the country. having been as
signed to I'LL gaps. Except where these
hail from New Yorl, State, their cards
are being sent to the branch Offices Of
the employment service in their home
communities.
Among those who viii be so rc.
fcrred are Chaplain George d. Kirk
patrick who was formerly clergy
man at Gloucester, Mass; a second
lieutenant who used to be secretary
OF the Chamber of Commerce at Ma
son City, Iowa; Private Gee Tung.