Evening star., 1930-12-10
EMPLOYERS ASKED
TO AID WITH Jobs
Chairman DeIano Says Com
mittee Needs Cooperation
in Situation Here.

An appeal to the employers Of WASH
ington to Cooperate with the District
Of Columbia Employment Agency in the
listing Of Jobs that might give work
to Washington's idle was sounded today
by Frederic A. Delano, chairman Of the
District Committee on Employment.
Following careful organization and
coordination work, Mr.. Delano pointed
out to the employers, the District Com
mittee on Employment is now prepared
TO of1er a highly satisfactory service in
men,"
Declaring that what Is primarily
needed now. to meet the unemployment
situation is jobs, the committee chair
man said that the employment group
has listed thousands of names of UNI
employed In classified order, according
to their capabilities. These capabilities
range all the way from those Of the
husky laborer to the highly skilled
artisan and the intelligent brain work.
er," Mr.. Delano said!
I'VE have greatly enlarged the Dis
trict OF Columbia Employment Agency
at 48O Louisiana avenue. Already large
and well managed, it has been given adj
ditional equipment and trained assist
ants, and made the official clearing
house for applicants and Jobs. We have
done this because we know the employer
does not care to be flooded with appli-
cants from numerous agencies, neither
does he care to have 'jack-of- -all-trades'
sent to I'LL positions requiring specific
training"
Appeal In Circular Form.
The appeal was distributed among
employers Of the city today in circular
al
service of the District agency is gratis.
Meanwhile 1t was made known today
that the Marines are coming to the aid
Of the needy here.
Fifty thousand cords Of firewood.
the remains Of the demolished wooden
barracks at Quantico, Va, will be trans
ported TO Washington and given away
to the unemployed to keep the home
fires burning.
The wood was donated by Maj. Gen.
Smedley D. Butler, commandant of the
Marines. Not only did he give the wood,
but he put the Marines to work saving
1t up into 12-inch lengths, ready Tor
use In the stove. The wood will he
transported In lighter towed by a Navy
tug. 1t will be unloaded at the Dis
trict's sand and brick wharf, on Water
street southwest, through the courtesy
OF the Board of Public Welfare. w. A.
Stein, in charge Of the wharf, will SUI
pervise the work of unloading the barge
as his contribution to the unemployed.
The Salvation Army will transport
the wood to eight distributing points,
from which 1t will be distributed to the
unemployed. The points at which It
VIII be given away are Eighth and I
streets northeast, Seventh and P streets,
Eighth and T streets southeast, Sixth
and E streets, Tenth and B streets
southwest and M street between Thir-
tieth and Thirty-first streets.
To he No Red Tape.
The distribution will be in charge of
Mai. James Asher of the Salvation
Army. He said that there would be no
"red tape" connected with giving away
the wood, that anybody who needed It
could come and get it. The only re-
striction will be that it must not be
taken away in wholesale lots for sale;
1t must be taken home by those who
need 1t.
The Salvation Army is now endeav-
oring to secure the loan of trucks from
charitably inclined business men to take
the wood from the wharf to the dis
tributing points. The Salvation Army
has no funds Of its own with which to
do this work.
The first lighter load of wood Is ex-
pected at the wharf Friday night and
1t will probably be ready for distribu-
ton next Monday.
Arrangements for the transfer /of the
wood are being made by George j.
Adams, secretary of the Commissioners
Committee on Unemployment, and Ross
Haworth, secretary to District Comnis-
sioner Luther H. Reichelderfer.