New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-20
n. Y. Men In
9th to Find
Jobs w aiting, s,
Chaplain Sails Saturday for
Brest With Application
Blanks To Be Filled
General Organ Helping
U. S. Employment Service Is
Joined by Welfare Organi-
cations to Canvass the City

Each of the $4,000 New York State
men of the 2itb Division win be giver
an opportunity to apply for job be
fore he reaches home. Chaplain Ceci
Fl. Lang, of tho Transport Harrisburg
will sail for Brest on Saturday, charged
by the War Department with the task
of supplying application blanks to sucf
OF the men as want jobs.
While the six transports, which arc
scheduled to leave Brest with the home
coming troops on March ., 3 and 4. are
en- route to New York, officers detailed
by Major General John f. O'Ryan. viii
collect the blanks. Meantime, the
United States Employment Service, 46s
Fifth Avenue, already has begun
special canvass of the city to locate
and hold Jobs for the New Workers.
i is expected that not moro thar
/ GOO men. or about 40 per cent, will
iirH themselves Wit hout their old Jobs
wNon they return, and the employment
serVico expects TO have the required
Jobs rca4y by the time the men nave
arrived aud are demobilized.
Jobs Wanted for All
"Ihere will be no unemployed New
York boys + we can help it, SAID Dr.
George w. hirchwey, Federal director
Of the service for New York State, YES
terday.
The application blanks which Chap
lain Lang is carrying over are provid
ed especially for the New Workers. The
blanks arc headed "Got Ready for a
Peace job After asking details as
20 dependents, these questions are put:
Usual occupation ?"
Where do you prefer TO work"
Last employer; name and address ?''
will you work elsewhere ?n
"Wages eXpected?"
The transports on which the men are
to return arc the Maurctania, the Lc-
vjathan, the Harrisburg, the Louisville
the Agamemnon and the Pannonnia.
Plans for cnllsting the men FOR
"poacc jobs" we're made with the War
Department through Major General
Organ. DR.. Kirchwcy, after obtaining
The approval of the War Department
cablcd Major General Organ:
Welfare Workers TO Help
"United States Employment Service
and all welfare organizations have
combined to aid men in your command
to obtain employment. The War De
partmcnt authorizes YOU to designate
mon to prepare transport lists, giving
the names, ages and residences, for
mcr employers and work desired by
those wishing assistance"
Dr.. Kirchwey followed up the cable
message with letter to Major Cen
cral ORyan. He sent q sample of the
application blanks and described the
work to be done. Tnc letter says:
mo. !. The United States Employ
mcnt Service for the State Of New
York is charged with the responsibility
Of reabsorblng into industry discharged
military men. With it in this work
arc intimately allied all of the vel
fare organizations recognized by the
War Department, such as the Rec
Cross, Y NJ. c. A., Y. w. G.. A., Wan
Camp Community Service, Salvation
Army, American Library Association
Knights of Columbus, National Cath
olc War Council, Jewish Welfare
Board Federation Of Churches etc
and very definite state wide cam
paign is now being conducted undc,
the supervision Of the service to OBJ
tain opportunities for employment
from employers Of the state and turn
them over 80 the returning soldier
War Department Aids
$50. .. This afternoon the under
signed asked permission of AS.
sistant Secretary Of War Keppcl tc
cable you requesting that Il possible
transport lists should be prepared Civ
ing the name, age residence, occupa-
ton and former employer in the case
Of each soldier returning to New York
State without definite assurance OF
employment 1t is thought that you
viii be willing to assign an officer or
each transport to prepare these lists
and j; it is at all possible the inlorma-
ton should be on cards 80 that they
may be separated into geographical
districts for consideration in the en-
ploymcnt bureaus for returning sol
diers and sailors situated in nearly
every town in the state under direction
OF this officer
No 3. 1t is needless to point out
that il th work is done on the trans
port 1T Wonld give the United States
employment service and cooperating.
welfare organizations from seven +,
thirty-four days. according to the Wni
Department charts OF rehabilitation
IN which to match UP the information
thus obtained with the opportunities
we are all now soliciting 20 relieve any
possible conditions Of unemployment