Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-08
BUSINESSMEN TO FIND
JOBS FOR SOLDIERS


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as chairman of the Harrisburg Board
OF Management for Placement in En-
ployment of Returning Soldiers Sail
ors and Marines.
/ Mr.. Reinoehl has heen chosen to
direct this important work in Harris
burg and is planning to effect a CO.
alition OF all local manufacturing and
commercial organizations for an in
tensive. cooperative and continuous
procedure that the question of pro-
viding employment for returning vet
| Grams may not assume in Harrisburg
the proportions of a problem as has
been the case in some communities.
Harrisburg's young men made a
wonderful record in answering the
call when the country needed them"
sald Mr.. Reinoehl today. "and as
those men return singly or in groups,
or In greater number, employers of
this district should not be found
without workable plans aimed to give
suitable employment to every return
ing man, seeking to re-enter The in
dustrial and commercial life of this
community.
Old Employers Help
Many of the men who left this
section to take UP arms in defence
of their country will, of course, be
gladly received by their Did cniploy-
| ers, but that does not solve tho whole
| problem. Circumstances during the
months of war have caused changes
both among the conditions surround
ing some employments, as well as in
the viewpoint and training of the
| men themselves, and every effort
| should be made to place these return
ing men into tasks for which they are
best suited and where they have op-
portunities for a future, commeasu-
rate~with their developing abilities.
Such action would not only benefit
the men themselves, but be of great
value to the economic structure Of
! this community
THE Harrisburg Board of Manage
ment Tor Placement in Employme Mt
! of Returning Soldiers, Sailors and
Marines, of which Warren r. Jackson
| is secretary, was formed for the ef-
| ficient Capitalization of all local or
! carnations concerned either with
war work or with the problems that
may develop during the re-adiust-
ment period. Every employers Or
| ganization and every individual en-
ployer should cooperate in this uni
ned activity. Harrisburg can un-
! questionabfy, through thoughtful CO.
! operation of all employers, give suit
able tasks TO all of it's returning.
men, without either releasing present
employees with dependents or merely
placing the returning soldiers at
makeshift jobs.
"The work is before us now. Sol
diers are returning to this district.
asking for work. At the present time
there are twenty-three returned men
available for employment in the fol-
| lowing tasks: Clerical or constructive
engineer, stenographer, transit man.
COOK, clerk. chemist, chauffeur. as
sistant surveyor, solicitor or sales
man, farmers, porter, typist, mechan-
ical craftsman, waiter and general
workers. 1t is estimated that some
| fve to ten soldiers are returning to
Harrisburg daily desiring emplov-
! ment.
"The actual point of contact in
! Harrisburg for returning soldi ers
seeking employment and for employ
ers desiring returning men as en-
ployes, or in other words, the I3lace-
ment agency will be the co-operative
employment office conducted at Third
and North streets. Jointly by the
| United States Employment Service.
the Pennsylvania Conucil of Nationa
Defense, and the Bureau of Employ
ment of the State Department of La
Dor and Industry, under the SUPER
| vision of Director Jacob Lightner.
This centralized placement office is.
| of course, conducted without charge
to either the returning men or to the
employers.
Every employer should make his
wants known to the placement agency
and cards will be distributed to all
employers of this district on which
they may accurately make known to
this single placement agency for the
district, their employment opportuni-
ties for returning men.
THE preceding statements, regard :
ing the providing of employment for
Kreturned men. apply solely to able
bodied men. as all physically handi-
capped mad disabled soldiers, sailors.
and marines should be referred i'm
mediately to the Federal Board for
| Vocational Education, which main
t9fns officers in the Calder Building
| M Harrisburg and is prepared to pro-
vide suitable treatment and training
for all disabled veterans. With that
work, of course. employers of this
district will readily cooperate to the
fullest extent"