New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-11
Engineers Will
Help Hoover in
.Jobless Plans
Idea of Releasing Money
Available for Highway
Construction Il Endorsed
by the American Society
Il6 Places for Veterans
Tribune Reporters Story of
Finding Employment IN
spires Varying Comment

Plans of Secretary Hoover to re-
iieve the national unemployment sit
uation through the release this Fall Of
way construction and repair were
given added impetus yesterday by an
announcement that the engineers of
the country are uniting in support Of
them.
This announcement was made by
local heads of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers, which, with
the Federated American Engineering
Societies, is one of the organizations
aligned with President Harding's pro-
3ected national conference on unem-
ployment.
"The engineers are solidly behind
Secretary Hoover in his efforts to pro-
mote employment" said Il. NJ. Gates,
OF Philadelphia, chairman of the ma
terials handling division of the engi-
neers' society. "They have provided
him with exact data on the advisability
of letting highway contracts in the
Fall instead Of in the Spring,
which he has used In communication
dealing with road contracts sent to
the governors of all the states.
Towns to Share in Program
"Ins addition to the highway con-
struction depending on Federal aid, the
Fall letting Of contracts would tend to
release road funds confined to towns
and cities. 1t would mean a longer
construction season, which in turn
would result in better car service, less
fuctuation in construction and the
completion of highway programs"
An offer of 116 jobs for that number
OF war veterans now out of work,
rs Of them white collar jobs" was
president of the Ex-Service Mems En-
ployment Bureau, No. d East Forty
third Street. Requesting The Tribune
to publish the offer, Mr.. Jacobs in a
letter gave assurances that there is
no charge of any nature to either the
employer or the employee" in connec-
ton with the jobs offered, and that
the bureau "makes no discrimination
relative to race. religion, veteran or
ganization or affiliations" of applicants,
1--WE are the only bureau of this kind
dorsed by the American Legion" the
letter sets forth.
The jobs offered are one farmland,
single; one farmer, man and wife;
two carpenters, five statesmen, fifteen
able seamen, twenty watchmen and
seventytwo clerical workers. Appli-
cants should report at the bureau of
fees on Monday morning.
AS the result of the publication bv
The Tribune of the experiences on
Tuesday and Wednesday of one of it's
reporters on job-hunting expedition,
whereby he landed three "blue flannel
shirt jobs" in one day and two white
collar jobs" on the next, this news
PAPER has received a number of letters
from unemployed or recently idle men
They comment chiefly on the main con-
clusion drawn from the results of the
expedition, that there are jobs to be
had in New York for earnest workers
who will seek them, instead of spend
ing their time on the park benches OF
the city.
The comment is about evenly d.
vided as for and against that conclu-
sion. The following letter, from
Ernest Teske, an aggressive shipping
clerk, of Tarrytown, who refused. to
let the unemployment situation put