Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-11-03
Local Boards Find
New Jobs and Aid
In Regaining Old

A job for every returning
serviceman-that is the present
goal of the Selective Service
System. With the armed forces
at their peak authorized
strength, the system has now
only to induct enough men for
requirements. Most of the en-
ergies of the huge organization
can be directed to obtaining en-
ployment for men who are be-
ing released from the army or
navy at the rate of $4,000 a
month.
Thus, the same agency which has
sent more than 100000 men for
induction into the Army, Navy, Ma
rine Corps and Coast Guard, also is
serving them when they leave the
armed forces by helping them to OBJ
tain reinstatement in their former
peace-time jobs or by aiding in find
ing new positions for them.
Congress, by law, has provided
that veterans discharged after hav-
ing completed successfully their pc
riod of training and service are en-
titled under most circumstances to
their old jobs back, or to assistance
In obtaining new ones if they want
them. The duty of carrying out this
mandate has been placed upon the
Selective Service System, which is
cooperating with number of other
agencies such as the United States
Employment Service and the Vet
Grams Administration.
Even now, before cessation of hos
tilities, the program is well under
way, for the armed services are dis
charging an average of some $4,000
men each month-men who are anx-
ious to get back into their civilian
work which was interrupted for them
by war. At present, the problem of
placing the men back into their
old jobs or into new ones is not a
difficult one, since industry still is
geared to wartime standards, and
can absorb the returning veterans
with comparative ease. But the
problem will become infinitely larg-
er and more complex when either
partial or total rehabilitation be-
gins.
Can Get Old Job Back.
By provisions of the Selective
Training and Service Act as amend
ed, veteran is entitled to reinState-
ment in his former position or to a
position of like seniority, status and
pay, if:
1. Such position was in the employ
of private employer, the United
States Government, its territories or
possessions, or the District of Co.
lumbia;
2. Such position was not a tenn
porary one;
3. He left the position subsequent
to May 1, 1910, to enter upon active
military or naval service in the land
or naval forces of the United States;
4. He satisfactorily completed his
period of training and service and
received a certificate to that effect;
S. He is still qualified to perform
the duties of such position;
6. He makes application for re-
employment within 40 days after he
is relieved from service. and
7. Such position is in the emoloy
of a private employer. the employ-
er's circumstances have not so
changed as to make it impossible or
unreasonable to reinstate the vet
eran to such position or a position of
like seniority, status and nav.
Other provisions protect the vet
eran even after he has been re-
stored to his ioh, When he GOES back
onto the payroll. the law provides
that:
l. He shall be considered as hav-
ing been on furIoueh or leave of all
sence during his neriod of service.
2. He shall be restored without
loss of seniority:
3. He shall be entitled to partici-
by ne ee Oy to