New-York tribune., 1919-04-28
Men Still Overseas Are
Asking for Employment
atRate of 100000 a Week,
Adding to the Crisis Here
5000 Working in Hotels
Thomas ID. Green Says Good
Business Judgment Die
tates Liberal Policy

The New York director of the United
States Employment Service says there
are 100000 unemployed men in New
York, including soldiers, sailors and
marines.
The last of the 2,762 officers and men
of the old Goth Regiment arrived Fri
day
Large contngents of the 10000 of
the 77th Division are coming In almost
duily.
The last of the 2,7oo men in the l1th
Engineers arrived yesterday.
American soldiers still in Europe are
applying for employment through gov
ernment agencies at the rate Of 10000
week
These men must have jobs.
WHAT rs TO BE DONE ABOUT IT?
Business Proposition Urged
Aside from the many things the
service men themselves can do to as
sist in tiding the country over it's
present crucial period of unemploy-
ment, Thomas D. Green, president Of
the Hotel Association of New York
City, asserts these men should be given
positions as matter of sound business
judgment. The "acid test" to which
they have been subjected, he said, has
developed qualities which make for the
best, the most honest aud the most
efficient worker in all trades and pro-
fessions. He particularly urged that
the hostleries of the city could do no
wiser thing than take as many of these
men into their organizations as they
could possibly find room for.
There is no question:" said Mr..
Green, that the trade and business
world owes n duty to these men, and
speaking for the more than 100 hotel
managers and proprietors in our organ
lzatlon, ! can say that duty always
has been recognized by us, and we
are acting in accordance with that
recognition. Our mem bership has
pledged itself to give preference to the
returned soldier and sailor in filling
vacancies or openings practicable to be
made in our metropolitan hotels
Hotels Among First to Act
Indeed, the Hotel Association was
one OF the first Of the large business
organizations of the country to take
Official action looking not only toward
re-enployment Of men who uuit their
posts III answer to their country's call
put toward employment of the service
men as they became discharged from
camp and fleet
since November. 1918. we have
placed approximately 5000 returned
s,oluiers and sailors il New York
ht9tels. ~ fact, 80 per cent Of tho
placements in the back Of our houses
nhVe peeh men in uniform. while 20
per cent OF The jobs in the fronts
nave 1eeh returned fighters. A Nun.
Der OF these have been mural af
sf'pplsu ~ one way or another, but
nave ,beeh found available in variot,s
useful capacities. '''S
"our activities will be continued
ana Increased to the utmost Of our re-
SOURCES" ''' ~
Appeal to Pastors Repeated
Dr' George w, Kirchwey, New York
state director of the United States
employment Service, yesterday issued
ms second request to clergymen of
New York for the observance Of Sun
day May 4, as Unemployment Sun
day The move to have the churches
OF the country unite in campaign
to assist the federal employment bu
reau IN hndlng jobs for returning
soldiers. sailors and marines has been
indorsed by President Wilson. who
already has addressed an appeal to the
nation on the subject, and Secretary
of Labor Wilson,
IL mas been suggested that sermons
and Bible class meetings on that dav
be devoted to consideration of the mn
employment situation, and that special
appeals be made to employers to keen