Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1919-06-20
LABOR BUREAU
BRANCH OPENED
in BROWNSVILLE
Under National Organization
for Discharged Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines.
SERVICES ARE FREE.


A Bureau for Returned Soldiers.
Sailors and Marines has been OPEN
ed in Brownsville as a branch
of the bureau of the war department
of which Colonel Arthur Woods. for
mer police commissioner of New York
City,. is the head. The branch will
handle all matters affecting discharg-
ed service men. getting employment
for them, attending to war risk in
surance questions. getting their back
pay and allotments and in general
acting as friend in need.
William T. Burnett. secretary of
the Board of City Development. has
been recommended to Colonel Woods
as the local chief of the bureau. His
salary will be a dollar a year. Mr..
Burnett was selected by Lieutenant
Rudolph J. Ayres, a signal corps
officer working on special assign
ment out of the office of the secre-
tary of war, on his recent visit to
Brownsville
In cooperation with Mr.. Burnett
the local director of the War Camp
Community Service, Jack Craig, and
Mrs William S. West, director of the
Home Service section of~he Ameri-
can Red Cross will work. Three Of
fices will be maintained: one at the.
Chamber &C Commerce rooms. 1908
Elizabeth street, where Mr. Craig will
keep office hours during the morning
attending to the work Of the employ
ment bureau, and one at the soldiers
club of the w. c. c. S., Tenth and
Levee where he will be found i'm the
afternoon and at night. Mrs. West
will carry on the work Of the Home
Service section of the Red Cross at
the parish house of the Church of
the Advent. on Tenth street. between
Elizabeth and Washington. just a
block from the soldiers club.
If the returned service man wants
a job, place to live, help in getting
money due him or his dependents or
any information the bureau, through
one Of its three representatives will
do everything possible to get what
he needs.
For the benefit particularly Of men
discharged from service at Fort
Brown the bureau will get informa-
tion about openings in business any
where that the man desires to locate
on his return to civil life. Mr.. Craig
through the chain of w. G. G. S.
clubs over the country, will be well
esuipped to get such information for
him.
The employment service of the W.
c. c. S. has hitherto placed every
discharged man who applied for
work. Now the scope Of the employ
ment service is to be extended to
serve rs general employment,
agency for Brownsville and the Val
ley
Employers who have jobs for men
are urged TO make use Of the new bu.
resu. Telephone 344. the Chamber
of Commerce office, in the morning
or 574, tho w. c. c. s. club during
the afternoon and tell MIR. Craig or
MIR. Burnett your needs. Men look
ing for work are privileged TO use
the bureaus, whether or not they
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employers of labor are urged to ap-
ply to Brownsville Labor Bureau,
1908 Elizabeth street, by letter when
they need men, or to call 344 by long
distance. There is no charge for the
bureaus services. Discharged ser
vice men also have the privilege o.
using The Herald's classified adver-
tising columns free until tney get en-
plcyment, II they apply in person TO
The Herald business office. sceord
floor Herald building. 18th and Wash
inston streets.
The war department is issuing a
very attractive employers citation Of
patriotism. an engraved certificate
for framing and display. TO all
employers who apply to the Bureau
for Returned Soldiers, Sailors and
Marines. Col. Arthur Woods, director
War Department. Washington. d. c..
certifying that they have re-employed
MI men who left their employ to en-
ter the nations fighting force.