Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-03-23
NO SUBSTITUTE
FOR EMP OYMENT
SERVICE CREATED
Chairman of Emergency Com
mittee to Find JO0S for SOL
dierS Says It Is Not Taking
Over Work of the Service,


The emergency committee on the
employment of soldiers, sailors and
war workers, organized by the ma
tional council of defense, does not
supplant the federal employment
service. Col. Arthur Woods, of the
war department, chairmaa of the
emergency committee issued a state
ment Saturday at Washington, defin-
ing the distinct and sparate fields
of the committee and the employ
ment service.
His statement, received by telegraph
at the headquarters of the federal di-
rector of the employment service for
New Mexico, follows:
There appears to have arisen a
misunderstanding of the purpose of
the emergency committee on employ
ment of soldiers, sailors and war
workers organized by the council of
rational defense, and mistaken be-
lief that the committee is taking over
the work of the employment service
because of the partial curtailment of
its field organization necesstated by
lack of funds. 1t should be made plain
to the country at large that the COM
mittee is a temporary body and that
it and the government departments
and boards represented in the COM
mittee will not attempt to create a
substitut employment service.
1.-THE committee intends to give the
fullest support to the work of the
employment service and to encourage
towns and cities through public and
private contributions to carry on the
bureau for returning soldiers and sail
ors and local employment offices
which the service itself will be una
BILE to finance until congress appro-
PIRATES the necessary money.
THE bureaus for returning soldiers
and sailors must be maintained and
increased and all public and private
efforts in every community to assist
soldiers and sailors to suitable en-
ployment must be co-ordinated and
centralized through those bureaus.
The welfare organizations and many
commercial civil and other voluntary
bodies already are working through
them, but this unit of effort must be
and ALIEN bracing. if the
problem is to be salts
factoriy solved
In the safe of New Mexico the war
camp community labor board at DEM
ing, the Chamber of Commerce and
Individuals at Roswell and
the sugar beet interests of Colorado
have contributed to keep the employ
ment service offices open at Deming,
Roswell and Santa Fe. This means
that these interested individuals and
agencies have agreed to finance these
three offices as employment service
offices for the next three months.
They will be run as heretofore and the
employees will be considered as en-
ployes of the government,
The Albuquerque office will bel
moved TO the federal directors office
at 3t2 West Gold avenue, and through
these ARRANGEMENTS all the offices in
he STATE will lie kept open except the
Ration office. Arrangements will be-
sorvod by the Ration office by COM
bining 1t with the Santa Fe district or
some other. Contributions by state
and city authorities, welfare, CONNER
cial and labor organizations, have as
sured the continuance for the employ
ment service of 200 offices in addition
to the fifty-siX for which the sd'vlco
has Arranged to continue. 1t is OK
pected that at least 100 more will bel
taken care of by communities.
The director general CharacteriZes
the response of the country as the
most remarkable demonstration of ma
tional realization of urgent need forl
full service to place soldiers sailors
and war workers.