The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-04-25
THE CHURCHES ARE
COOPERATING WITH
LABOR DEPARTMENT
May Fourth TO Be Observed
as Employment Sun
day.


every Protestant and Catholic
church in the land. On that day
ministers from their pulpits will
urge their members to cooperate
with the United States Employment
Service by calling upon employers
to register their needs for help, with
the Service or its Bureaus for Re
turning Soldiers and Sailors. They
also will urge that every effort be
made, individually and collectively
to find jobs for the men who have
offered themselves for the supreme
sacrifice for their country, thus
making May 4th a day for great
country-iwe drive for employment,
| in which the cooperation of Labor
Will prove an all-important factor.
The War Emergency and Recon-
struction Joint Centenary Commit
tee of the Methodist Church. has ar
ranged to have 10000 five-minute
men address meetings and congre-
cations on the subject.
The General Wartime Commits
sion of Churches, which includes
all of the Protestant churches, is
cooperating with the U. s. Employ
ment Service to the extent of APP
| propriating five thousand dollars
for spreading propaganda for the
| employment of the returning men,
and to promote the observance of
| May 4th as Employment Sunday
when clergymen, bible class teach
ers and special speakers will appeal
for support of the work OF the U. S.
Employment Service and urge en-
ployers to keep all employment
openings listed with the local Of
ficers of this service and its bu-
reaus. 1t has, by direct appeal,
enlisted the cooperation of more
than 10000 ministers of America.
In the Catholic churches, the ap-
peal has been continuously made by
priests in and out of their pulpits,
and this appeal will be renewed by
them on May 4.
Not alone the churches, but well
fare organizations, chambers of COM
merce, organized labor and private
individuals, are cooperating with
the U. S. Employment Service in
assisting men to jobs.
It is a matter of record that So
per cent of all the men discharged
from the army and navy, leave the
service without prospects of posi-
tions. OF these, the United States
Employment Service is placing 80
per cent in good jobs through its
400 regular offices and about p
600 Bureaus for Returning Sol
diers and Sailors. I'm many in
stances, labor unions are support
ing and continuing the employ
ment offices for the u. S. Employ
ment Service, temporarily aband-
oned, owing to the failure of Con
gress to appropriate funds, recog-
nizing the vital necessity for con-
tinuing this work, not only in the
present emergency, but as a perma-
nent organization following the
completion of rehabilitation.
With returns from the 4 largest
states not yet tabulated, the u. S
Employment Service in "a states
for the week ending March %, re-
ceived 43,512 applications for jobs
OF this number fl ,972 were refer
red, $1,000 reporting back to the
! Service as placed. Returns from
the II missing states undoubtedly
will more than double the place
ment record for that week. Place
ment figures from is of the 80 de
mobilization camps in which the L
S. Employment Service has offices
for the same week, show that of the
$40 men discharged who applied
for jobs, SOAP were referred to pc.
sitions, and that of this number
5,429 are known to have been
placed Immediately.
Among the industries and indi.
yiduals who have come to the as.
sistance of the u. S. Employment
Service in carrying on this work, is
the firm of j. P. Morgan and Com
pany, who have contributed 500.
900 to the service for the purpose oil
tiding it over until Congress in ex-
ira session provides for the neces-
sary funds for continuance Of the
work, this fund being devoted ia
finding suitable jobs for the dis
charged men.
Mrs w. d. McMullen, Puyallup,
Wn., says that she has been cured