New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-19
Soldiers Come
Home Looking
For Better Jobs
Only 35 Per Cent of Them
Accept What Is Offered by
u. S. Employment Service
More Civilians Are Placed
s0.665 Have Got Work Since
January L; Only 1923 En-
fighters Take Positions

Iobs are being found by the Unit {.
sstes Employment Service for six
civilians to every discharged soldier
who is put to work Figures made pub
lie BY the service yesterday show that
almost four times az many civilians
spply for jobs as soldiers and that,
while 90 per cent Of the civilians who
are referred TO jobs accept the employ
ment offered them, only 35 per cent Of
the discharged soldiers referred accent
rlaces offered.
The figures show that from January
! to February is, 30,665 civilians in
New York City were placed in jobs,
while for the same period only 5,O23
discharged soldiers and sailors were
placed. The number of civilions re-
ferred to jobs was 51,4O5, discharged
soldiers 11,721. The same condition
prevails throughout the state.
Come Back Ambitious
soldiers sld sailors are more pay
tcular as to the kind of jobs they will
accept" said DR.. George ". Kirchwey.
Federal director for New York State,
yesterday. "The adventure and romance
Of war may have had some thing to do
with it. These men are returning from
France and from the encampments with
larger visions and more ambition.
Their hopes to achieve something more
than they did before the war have been
stimulated. They do not want to get
back into the same humdrum business
as before The war.
MANY q man who was contented to
be a soda water clerk before the war
now aspires to become q real business
man. This ambition is laudable, but it
complexities the employment problem.
"Of course we must try to supply
Jobs for all who apply for them
whether civilians or former soldiers.
Ct the civilians now out of employ
ment were workers in war industries. >"
How the Service Works
Dr. Kirchwey explained how the ser
vice gets in touch with employers. Be-
sides the headquarters at 496 Fifth Ave
rue, twenty-nine other offices in the
city are maintained. Several of these
are for placing special kinds of work
ers. The most important of the special
Offices are:
1884 Broadway, where skilled me-
ehanics and their helpers are examined
and sent to employers.
40 Broadway, for clerks. stenog-
raphers. bookkeepers and accountants
who want work in the lower part Of
Manhattan.
l6 East Forty-second Street, the pro-
tessional division, where the applica-
tons Of men and women who desire
Jobs ranging from statesmen to an
slnees are received.
The operation OF the service in the
city requires the aid of SIC paid en-
poyes. in addition there are thou
sands of volunteer workers.
To Reach Employers
10 get in touch with EMPLOYERS and
learn what help they need the service
las obtained the aid of important com
Merclal organizations The Merchants
Association, the chambers of commerce
OF New York and Brooklyn, the New
York Produce Exchange, the Building
Trades Employers Association, the Ma
lonal Arts Club. seventy-tive upstate
chambers of commerce and boards of
trade and many clubs have sent letters
% their members asking that any need
t0r help Immediately be reported to
DR.. Kirchwey's Office.
In addition the service has volunteer
workers who operate under the United
Council on Unemployment. This coun-
ell IS composed of the officials and
members of the war welfare organiza-
tons, such as the Red Cross, the Y. NJ.