Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-01
GOVERNMENT OPENS NEW
EMP OYMENT AGENCY

WASHINGTON, D. c., May %
A new kind of employment agency
is being opened by the
Most offices of the sort start out IN
business with a list of alluring posi-
| tons and invite jobless men 10 Apply
for them. The government is pc
ginning at the other end. IL mas
a group of we'll trained men on It's
hands, and it's employment agency
will try TO fit them into the Jops
which are no doubt available about
| the country but WHICH are JeSs NV
singularly elusive.
The new agency is the veterans
bureau and its efforts are to be put
forth in behalf of the dlrecuoh OIL
the bureau. ~
Although it is more than three years
since the war ended the peak Oh
rehabilitation has not been reacheu'
largely because SO many OF the vet,
Grams have been taking three ana
four year courses. This June sew
eral thousand will be graduated
from universities and techhlcal
schools. and will be back IN the
competitive struggle of finding en-
ployment. Next June there Will De
a still greater number OF men re-
leased from the governments super
vision.
To date 16,4S5 men have COM
plete their training and are m
| ployed. More than 100000 are IN
training now, and ultimately $4,000
will have been rehabilitated. Many
of the disabled men have not begun
training. They are not yet phys
Iically able, their cases are pend
ling or for some other reason ram
ing has been deferred.
The new agency which calls itself
by the mouth filling title OF Inc
Trainee- Employment Section OF the
Rehabilitation Division of the Vet
Grams Bureau, has just begun It's
task. 1t has men of practically
every vocation on Its hands, from
dentists to farmers to stenographers
and shoe makers. To avoid mlsun-
derstanding it announces at the out
set that it will not he able TO help
any persons except the disabled war
veterans who have been under gov
eminent training. That is in itself
a large undertaking.
The employment section has be-
gun TO establish contacts with or
g~anizations that are in touch with
all angles of the job market. the
Civil Service Commission is report
ing to the Bureau on available po-
sitions in the government depart
ments. Already the department of
agriculture has arranged to employ
one young veteran who made a re-
markable record at an agricultural
college. This boy won prizes for
cattle judging, he heads his class
in his studies, and he is regarded as
Ian expert in cotton breeding.
AAf.r RNaAn with in
surance companies, trade journals,
the American Federation of Labor.
professional societies, and big cor
~porations, such as the U. S. Ship
ping Board, Standard Oil, Westing-
house Electric and the United states
Steel Corporation.
Where Men are Needed
Employment experts of the vet
| Grams Bureau are making a study
of the professions and trades to de-
termine which are crowded. A par
tial survey indicates that training
has been provided in the past in
some ~vocations which are badly
overcrowded, while other lines in
which trained personnel is needed
have been overlooked. In future
the bureau will consider supply and
demand in starting its disabled men
on new work.
A number of doctors are on the
list of rehabilitated men, and these,
at least should have no difficulty in
establishing connections, since small
towns all over the country have
been calling for doctors.
Considering the need foe farmers
it is also ENCOURAGING to learn that
$4,000 veterans are studying some
phase of agriculture. Some of
them have already secured posi-
tons which they will enter on grad
uation. A number are going to teach
horticultural subjects in high schools
and colleges. One mar is going to
South America as a salesman OF
agricultural implements. The stu
dents of farming are being urged to
buy land and start In business for
themselves, and many are planning
to do so.
The men who have been studying
trades are placed in union shops for
practical experience. When they
are able TO do a full days work
they are considered rehabilitated
and given positions.
A man learning a trade or busi-
ness il rehabilitated when he has a
position. and the governments re-
lE~nopAlhiluy toXAEa him anaA. " u
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