The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-06
i D BS APLENTY
FOR CAPITAL
WORKERS
o. c. Employment Service Had
Only 2.s1o Applicants for
1919 Places In March.

Il 2
| That is the conclusion forced
| by the March record of the United
States Employment office, 141O
Pennsylvania avenue.
| During the month 2.S1O an.
| plicants registered for positions.
| Places were found for 2,795. OF
| the applicants, 865 were men and
| l,945 weR, women. Available places
listed for men totaled 1,479, while
! 1,S40 were listed for women. Men
applicants were referred to 1912
employers, who engaged them. The
number Of women placed totaled
Hasa.
TT may not be quite a 100 per
cent record, but It looks like ii
from certain angles said Miss
Catherine Smith, head OF the of.
flee. when you consider that S65
men applied for positions and that
1892 were placed, 1t has you guess
ing how to reconcile the two factors.
The explanation is simple. Some
OF the applicants were placed
| several times. The positions were
| temporary. That is an experience
which applies, however, almost cx.
clusively to unsEiIIed labor. Al
trained worker rarely has difficulty
in securing q permanent position
Clerks Faro Worst.
During the past quarter, statistics
show that among the men ap.
plicants seeking positions were
thirty-eigl1t senographers and thirty.
Isix who described themselves az
typists, besides 40 seeking clerk.
ships. The bureau placed twenty
eight OF the stenographers, nine Of
the typists and tWenty-nine Of the
clerks.
Women stenographers to the
number OF 1S4 applied to the office
for positions. In addition, eighty
women typists were listed and 32A
clerks. Positions were found for
104 of the senographers. sixty.
seven Of the typists and eighty.
three OF the clerks.
UnskiIled laborers seeking EN-
pIoyment during the same period
totaled 043 with 372 qualifying as
skilled laborers. OF the latter, $50
were placed in positions, while 1918
jobs were secured for the former.
There is no difficulty In secur.
Ing places for skilled workers, =
said Miss Smith. Opportunities
are open in almost every line OF
activity. The difficulty is to
secure the skilled man or woman
Vocational training IL becoming
more and more a factor In the
success OF every person. This can
not be too strongly stressed. Every
boy and every girl should be given
vocational training of some kind
Then IL In after life it becomes
necessary to turn to manual labor
for support they are partially
Qualified at least to I'LL some posi-.
ton at which they can earn a
living, and pick up quickly what
they do not know. It is the
Foundation In trade training tina. is
lacking and makes II difficult to
place every one needing work. In
the District Of Columbia, however,
there IL work for every one who
will take a job"
Fired Own Furnace.
Miss Smiths sense Of the per-
sonal obligation resting on the in.
dividual to take a job was
illustrated. 1t ig learned, by her.
self during the past winter. For
some reason no provision was made
I to employ q janitor for the building
where the office OF the employment
service is located. Consequently
when It came to firing the furnace
the work had to be done by a
Volunteers But firing the furnace
In this instance was not merely a
! question Of throwing a few slovels
OF coal into the furnace firebox
from a conveniently placed coal
pile. 1t meant leading up a wheel
barrow with coal, trundling it along
hA ovNG ~
ing the fuel into the furnace box.
Miss Smith faced the situation in
the spirit Of the pioneer. Then
she became acquainted with The
wheelbarrow and continued the &C.
quaintance daily until a week after
St. Patrick's day. Fortunately ar.
rangements had been made for the
removal of the ashes at night,
otherwise she would have attended
unfllnchingly to that detail as
well.
The story of her experience in
wheeling coal for the furnace and
ATTENDING the fire through the fall
and winter leaked out today. Miss
Smith refused to comment on it.
Others familiar with the details
declared it had proved one of the
best object lessons they had ever
witnessed OF woman doing a
mans job, doing 1t voluntariaIly,
secretly almost, while it illustrated
the esprit de corps animating the
personnel8of the service.
/ "It did not hurt me-" Miss Smith
grudgipg admitted when asked to
comment on her experience.
With that she dismissed the in.
cident after a fruitless attempt
to exact promise the whole thing
should remain a secret.