The Denver Jewish news., 1924-04-10
Help Wanted" Columns Praciieaii!
Closed 10 the Jewish Applicant

ielligent Hebrew s25-S2S. Ma
tional Vocation Agency, ~
Nassau ST.
These are the exact words of an
advertisement rs il appeared III the
! Help Wanted" columns of the 'lassl-
fed Section of the New York World
on Sunday, January C. of all the DIS
criminatory and Insulting statements,
either verbal, written or in print. That
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency has
come across in its investigation, ms
has been awarded first prize. That
any employment agency i'll New YORK
City should show such an utter lack
of judgment. let alone tact, aS to spe-
cify that any Christian or only what
they call an Intelligent Hebrew need
apply seems almost inconceivable. But
what the eyes see one must believe
and we offer this in further evidence
cf the prejudice that the Jewish en-
ployce runs up against in New Aorks
commercialism.
In other articles, we have dealt
with the difficulty one Immediately en-
counters when trying to iasicn to GER
tain firms the NO Jews Wanted IN
sigma which is rightfully theirs. oii
hand it would be easy to name at
least a score of nationally known cor
porations which discriminate against
Jewish applicants but in every IN
stance there is lack of written evil
dence. That Jewish job-seekers have
been turned down repeatedly ana
Christians invariably given preference
solely because of religious belief is not
conclusive enough even though IT comes
first hand from the applicant himself.
The admission on the part of employ
mcnt agencies that they have no place
for Jews and that other employment
directors also have names of the pre-
iudiced firms are of no avail for they
are both sworn to secrecy because of
their profession. The jewish Tele-
graphic Agency. in its desire to single
out specific firms in New York Clty
who on black and white are shown to
he discriminatory. confined one week
of its Investigation to the Help
Wanted" columns of the daily news
papers. one of the principal media
whereby the employer may reach the
applicant The results obtained dur
ing the past few weeks bear out some
old contentious Of the problem and
throw light on several new interesting
angles of the situation.
THE New York World' and New
York Times lead all other mctropoli-
tan dailicS in carrying classified adver-
tiSinc and in these two papers fully
scventy-five per cent. of the Hep
Wanted" advertisements i'll all New
York papers appear. The New York
HERALD and New York American"
each has Il few columns. The evening
papers carry very few If any and so
the investigation which started ON
Thursday. January 3rd. was coniied to
the four above mentioned morning pa
pcrs. Every morning for one week.
the Help Wanted columns were
scanned for even hint at religious
preference in the copy. We found
three types which were discriminatory
against the Jewish applicant namely,
|. The applicant in replying is re-
ouestcd TO state religion along with
other qualifications.
=. Only Christian applicants are re-
qucstcd to reply.
3 The employer informs the appli-
cant that his is Il "Christian concern"
In a single week. there appeared in
these four papers exactly four hun
dred and sixteen Help Wanted adver-
tisemen.s which We're practically clos
ed to Jewish applicants. This number
is all the more astounding when all en-
ployment managers readily admit that
the employment situation is particular
| ly bad mt the present time. or this
total, about half We're those of in
| dividual employers who sought from
one to ten employees. The other half
were those of employment agencies of
fcring i'm all fully two thousand posi-
tions. which is putting il conservatively,
for Christians only. Practically every
one of these four hundred and sixteen
positions was of the white collar
variety. Requests for stenographcrs.
typists, clerks and Office boys led all
others.
An advertisement inserted by an en-
ployment agency illustrative of those
which daily appear in ''The New York
World' follows:
GIRLS S14S1S
Girls ca, white, Christians;
light, clean work, assembling.
packing: power and foot