The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-11-01
MAKING PLANS 10
 ASSlST vET5 WHEN
 THEY COME HOME
Territorial Direttor of Be- Ieetiye Service ls-
 sues Statement

I nent of the Army's partial demob- lization plans, John L. Mccormick, Territorial Director of Selective Ser vice, declared today that Alaska's A Local Boards are well started on the task of fulfilling their employ nent obligations to returning vet srans in accordance with provisions of the Selective Training and Ser vice Act which placed much of the of assisting veterans In finding jobs on the shoulders of the Selective Service System.
 Our first big job," sad MT. Mo- Cormick, was to select men for the armed forces. That job isn't com- pleted yet, but that doesn't mean that we aren't working hard on the other big job cut out for us by Con- gress-the job of aiding veterans in finding the kind of employment they want and making certain that those who desire return to their former positions will be reinstated in them"
 To Civilian Life
 Mccormick emphasized that in auctions are continuing and are necessary because Of the constant need by the armed forces for re- but he added that the Local Boards also are keenly inter ssted in seeing that the men they selected for service are firmly re- in civilian life.
 ''It is an understatement to say hat the plans for unemployment of veterans have been made" said MT. flor the plans are all ready functioning. In the country at large there are 6443 Local Boards; each of these Local Boards has one or more unemployment committee men attached and delegated with the responsibility to assist the vet gran in obtaining reinstatement in his former position or to extend practical assistance if he wants new Attached to Alaska s twenty four Local Boards there are twenty unemployment committee men.
 New Status of Vets
 Whatever his problem or plans for the future may be, the dis charged veteran should have an in Lerview with the unemployment com as soon as possible after he reports his new status to his Local Board
 Even though he may believe he IS thoroughly informed as to the rights and benefits to which he is it is entirely possible that there may be some aspects fitting his particular case that he has over looked"
 Mccormick remarked on the keen interest evidenced by individual Local Board members in the well fare of the discharged veteran. With only slight variation in language, he said that he had heard Board members speak many times substan- tially as follows:
 These men were taken away from their families and their jobs it was necessary to win the war. And when they return it is just as necessary for us to exert every human effort toward seeing hat those same men are given all ,he breaks to which they are legal y and morally entitled"
 For the benefit of recently dis charged service men and those still n the service who may not be en- .irely familiar with the provisions of the Selective Training and Ser 7ice Act relating to the reemploy- nent rights of discharged veterans, reviewed these provis- ons as follows:
 Reinstatement
 Conditions for reinstatement in former position-(a) A veteran is entitled by law to. reinstatement in lis former position or to position ,f like seniority, status and pay:
 CD If such position was in the ,mploy of private employer, the United States Government, its ter 'itorial possessions, or the District If Columbia;
 CD If such position was not one;