Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-20
Strive for Employment
OF Disabled Veterans
Act to Furnish Handicapped With Chance
For Gainful Occupation; Industry
Pledges Full Cooperation.
By BAUKHAGE
NetUs analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, 1916 Eye Street, NV,
Washington, ID. G.


When lot more workers than
jobs begin to plague the employ
ment offices of the country, some
21S million men stand to have a
little tougher shedding than their
fellows that is, unless the pro-
gram that will be getting under way
as these lines appear achieves the
worthy purpose that it's designers
have for it.
The potential workers who are 60
ing to get this special help are
the men who have made the second
greatest sacrifice in World War IL
the ones who gave all never came
back. I'm going to talk about the
disabled American veterans.
In times Of great unemployment
a person with a disability has two
strikes on him when pitted for
job against perfectly able-bodied
worker. Therefore, the Disabled
American Veterans, veterans Or
ganization whose membership is
confined solely to the war disabled,
is setting up the machinery to 60
to bat for him so that he from whom
much has been taken to keep the
rest of us secure within the wide
bounds of these United States will
have at least as good a chance as
his able-bodied colleague in getting
job where he can earn a living
for himself and his family.
For the first time in it's history,
DAV, the Disabled American Vet
Grams, has set up highly integral
ed national network of employment
officers headed in Washington by
DR.. Gilbert S. Macvaugh, disabled
veteran of this war and a former
lieutenant commander with wide ex-
perience in personnel and employ
ment counselling. These employ
ment officers have their hands
reaching out In two directions-one
toward the disabled veteran and one
toward the employer in an endeavor
to bring the two together so that
the employer and the veteran may
meet and reach an agreement on a
job.
Let me give you two small exam
pies of the type of thing the DAV
is getting ready to do in big way.
Take the case of the man who
had been wounded in the invasion
of Normandy. An injury to his
spinal column paralyzed him from
the waist down so that he is bed
ridden. On directions from the
Washington DAV office, the local
employment officer of the DAV con-
tacted the man to see what kind of
work he might do while in bed and
yet receive some income. In the
mans community there was a
small plant for making hooked rugs.
The DAV representative arranged
to have the bed-ridden veteran
make hooked rugs and market them
with this concern.
Then there is an entirely different
type Of case-seeing that justice is
done the disabled veteran after he
does get job. A guard was en-
ployed in a certain public build
ing. He had a slight nervous dis
order for which psychiatrist was
treating him. prescribing a little
medication to be taken while on
duty. One day the medicine made
the veteran feel drowsy and he
asked to be relieved from duty for
few hours until he could overcome
it. That was refused him. Suisse
luently charges were preferred
against him and he was given a
etter OF suspension. The DAV Ma
onal Employment officer went to
lie mat for him and had the whole
aSe uncovered.