The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-10-08
BIG JOB TO
FIND JOBS
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS GET
THOUSANDS.
Even Badly Disabled Men Are
Quickly Placed by Earnest
Workers-veterans Paid
to Find Work. Is,


When James White, U. S. Marine,
was operating a machine gun at Cha
teau Thierry, he did it with yigor and
vim, as every good Marine always does
everything with yigor and vim. Now,
Jimmy White, instead of blazing away
with Ii machine gun of war, is blazing
away with machine gun of peace
operating highspeed mimeograph
machine in high-speed way, and with
one. arm se1
Jimmy got his at Chateau Thierry-
Three pieces Of shrapnel in his arm.
1t chad to come off to save Jimmy's
lifes Nothing daunted, he let 1t part
company with him. And he was blue,
very blue, for a long time Until, in
the hospital, looking doefully at the
place where his arm used to be, Jimmy
was accosted by knights of Colum-
bus secretary, who told him to cheer
up and figure on getting a nice, snappy
job when he returned home.
Jimmy White was a cynic. He didn't
believe nice, snappy jobs came to one
armed men. He thought he was
as a useful citizen. He was
disillusioned once he struck home. The
K of G. lined him up with SO other
veterans, put them in automobiles and
paid them 81 per day to scout for jobs
for their comrades and themselves.
Jimmy found a job the second day
out-in a Dig advertising plant, operat-
ing the niimeograph - the busiest
miineograph in the world, Jimmy
thinks.
This idea of the K. Of c. OF. paid
veteran job finders is resulting in six
hundred jobs each day for, demObilized
soldiers and sailors, and the same fig
nres, in proportion, holds good in hun
dreds of other cities. The Knights,
conduct more than 1,700 employment
bureaus throughout the country. Re-
suits Oh proportionate scale are be-
ing obtained throughout the country
1t was rather hold idea which the
Columbus put into effect
when they recruited hundreds of young
veterans Of the war-soldiers, sailors
and marines-and put them on the
of Columbus pay roll at the
rate OF 81 per daysto- find Jobs for their
comrades and incidentally for them
selves. s
While the knights, through their
and individual members of
their organization, had already found
hundreds of jobs for ex-service men, |
The same story, of doing the right thing
oy the returned men was beginning TO (,
ose something Of its punch. So JOS
.ph G. Pelletier, K OF G. supremesad-
Tocate and a member of the X. of Z.
committee on war activities, hit upon +!
he idea Of letting the returned men /
present their own arguments to em-
,loyers. The scheme was Instantly |
ldopted, and within week Peter w. |
Collins, late government industrial ex- /
,ert, who is director of the k:1C EN-
,loyment and reconstruction bureau,
lad enlisted the one hundred men he
leeded. and the drive was started
gainst the out-of-work line by the !,
anne men who. had helped smash the
line. .scsss.n
Dividing the city into zones of man
Featuring and commercial .centers;and
plitting up the small, compact army
f 100 into squads of ten each. squad
eaded by an experienced &c. work
+. who coached the-veterans in their
manner of approach the tack WASH
lades <i'.'s r. Z. eEtSs-s
The men presented themselves in
alking teams OF two and three before
managers in large offfcesl
nd factory superintendent large
lants. ! In as few words as possible
hey presented the reasons why the
len they represented should be: given /,
Immediate employment. On the first
ay, with a record of 800 places Wis
ed, total Of, 5S7 jobs were captured. !
ii told, the Knights have placed over !
5000 veterans in good Jobs all oyer Fl
re country. There are 1920 knights
ow organized to find jobs for veter- |
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