The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-09-08
DFalfees' Jobs
Get Protection
Released Men
to Get Help

OAANS1N1, sept. - vi -
Plans for q statewide organiza-
ton to provide Jobs for men 20
years or older released from the
armed services were drafted at
q conference today sponsored by
the selective service headquart-
ers and the Michigan Defense
Council.
Lieut.. Col. Harold A. Fur
long, council administrator, told
the conference that one or more
unemployment committeem n
would be appointed for each loc-
al draft board and that in coun-
ties with three or more local
draft boards . coordinating COM
mittee would be named to avoid
confusion and duplication.
Col. e. M. Rosecrans, director
Of. selective service for Michigan,
estimated that between $500
and 1000 men were eligible for
release. He said not all would
be released and those returned
home would not be sent all at
once.
Rosecrans said: II don't be-
lieve there will be any difficult
ty with the large employers but
some of the small employers
may not be In position to take
back their men and some men
employed at low wages won't
want to take their old jobs
back"
Furlong explained q Federal
law requires draftees, members
Of the National Guard and Re-
serve Corps be given former
Jobs back or jobs or like SEN
iority, status and pay" unless
the employers circumstances
had made that impossible or un-
reasonable.
George F. Adde's, secretary
treasurer of the United Auto
mobile Workers-CIO, said un-
ion contracts with most of the
major automobile corporations
provided for the return Of re-
leased soldiers but that q prob
lem would arise from those en-
ployed outstate who wished to
migrate to the automobile and
defense production centers. He
pointed out those areas now
face serious unemployment as
the result Of curtailment of au-
tomobile production and subse-
quent delays in tooling up for
defense production.
Rosecrans said an effort
should be made in the outstate
communities to keep returned
soldiers from shifting around"
and increasing unemployment.
Furlong said the Defense Coun-
Gil already has notified similar
councils in 26 states to adver-
tise that jobs are not available
in Michigan. Through Wendell
L. Lund, director, and Thomas
Carson, personnel director of
the Michigan Unemployment
Compensation Commission and
the Allied State Unemployment
Service, arrangements were
made to clear requests for Jobs
through the service and use its
facilities.
Furlong said the local re-em-
ployment committeeman would
be instructed to make personal
contact with soldiers immediate
ly upon their release from the
Army, to contact former en-
ployers before such men are re-
leased, to refer unemployment
cases. to the unemployment
service and notify them of all
placements, to seek jobs for
men through local chambers of
commerce and similar organize
tons rather than by direct soil
citation, to report to Rosecrans
refusals of employers to rehire
old employees, to refer unjusti-
fled refusals to local business
groups to exert pressure.
Counties with three or more
draft boards requiring coordin-
ing committees are Berrein, Cal
houn, Genessee, Ingham, Jack
son, Kalamazoo, Kent, Macomb,
Oakland, Saginaw and Wayne.