Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-15

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ting jobs, II isn't 80 stodgy.
They are even sending notices
20 employment offices In other
states, trying to find mechanics
and to0lmakers. Men IS years
old are going back TO work.
Some of them are very valuable.
The old men learned to be all
around tool men or mechanics,
and know how TODD practically
anything. The younger ones are
specialists and know only one or
two phases Of q job.
Fitz and the Deacon said that
the over-40 bugaboo is being
knocked silly. They showed me
an order from one big plant for
a group of apprentices. The fac
tory merely wanted some intell-
gent men and would train them
in the factory's own school.
The order specified lagos Is
TO S." asked if that meant
that men over 40 were more ac-
ceptable than they used to be,
and Fitz, looking surprised, said.
"Why, yes. But I'm rather sur
prised at the IS years. That's
Younger than usual" So the
man-over-40 is coming into his
own.
The office (as Fitz puts IT'D
services factories complete. We
furnish everything from sweep
ers to superintendents."
The Deacon and II. Il. Fitz-
patrick toured me through the
place. The main office In ut liz
East Jefferson avenue, . block
from Woodward.
They have had Is many as
5000 persons day passing
through their doors, and this Is
what happens:
They take down your quaiifi-
cations, the jobs you have done
and are able TO do, and some
notes on your preferences, your
personality and where they can
find YOU II they have q Job for
you.
All this information goes on
a card 8 by 8 inches big. II you
can do two types Of work, you
get two cards; II three, three
cards. That makes 10 simple to
find your card. II somebody
comes In TO hire n welder, they
look under "welders" and there
you are.
Fitz pointed out that right
now all efforts are being con-
centralized on war workers. For
instance, there was a barber at
the Fort Shelby Hotel who used
TO be a toolmaker II years ago.
He was a good barber and made
good money, but the country
needed him more as toolmaker,
so now he is in a defense fac
tory. Making more money, too.
They even get requests for
men TO fill Sl0,0OO-a-year Jobs,
although those are rather rare.
However, IL shows that indus
trial plants are placing more re-
lance on the federal employ
ment service.
It's been In existence only
seven years, and In the begin
ming the factories were skepti-
cal, thinking IL was "just part
Of the welfare department"
They've changed their minds
now, and every big plant In De-
trolt relies on II 20 find work.
men.
II Is not at all unusual for the
office TO place 800 TO 500 per-
sons a day in jobs. ranging from
highly trained designers down 10
maids or men 10 cut the grass.
I'VE don't care much now
whether Mrs. Jones ever gets
maid" they told me. What we
want are mechanics and tool
men for the factories" But once
the war is won, the office will
switch very readily back TO
peacetime standards.
At the same time I think j
ought TO say that practically
everybody I talked 20 had some
story Of some particular Job APP
pIIcant that had been helped.
Youngsters lacking self-confi-
dence have been placed In NYA
Jobs and In n few months have
got regular jobs. So In spite of
the blgness OF the office, IL still
has a personal, human touch,
and I thing the staff deserves