Evening star., 1950-01-02
UnskiIIed DPS Find
Jobs in u. ). Easier
Than Professionals
By the Assoeioted Press

European Professionals finds it's
clients" in the oldest places, and
has discovered it is easier to place
the unskilled than the skilled.
It found a former Latvian Su-
preme Court Justice dipping choc-
olates in Connecticut candy fac
tory. 1t found a distinguished
electrical engineer working as
Buffalo house servant. It found
former eminent Czech diplomat,
once secretary to President Ed
ward Benes, in New York. He
couldn't find a job, but his wife
did-in a dress factory.
But these are the lucky ones.
These are DPS who managed to
come to the United States. Most of
the people the council Is trying to
help are still in European DIP
camps begging for a chance to
come here. They are, or were, doc
tors, lawyers, scientists, men of
great learning and training.
Many have been stateless for 10
years, escaping the Nazis, the
Communists, or both.
Use Studied English.
They write letters to the council
in New York, in awkward, studied
English. They send pictures of
themselves and their families.
They send documents. fragments
attesting to lifetime of work.
When they speak of their careers,
they sound like they don't quite
believe it themselves, that it hap
pened too long ago in time, space
and pain.
A chemist with a long list of
scientific credits writes:
II beg you very much to help nv
son to emigrate to the U. S. A. I
am a chemist, but I can do also
any kind of work offered to me
Gn a garden or kitchen and at
every workshop or manufactury as
Worker) :. :"
From DIP camp in Germany,
a former Lithuanian mechanical
designer writes:
THE Communists have killed
my parents and deported to ST.
IBERIA my wife's parents to force
labour. Our only hope is
America, If we could get there and
ind work, we would feel again as
full citizens amongst other up
right people. And would honor
with our work, capability and in
dustry our supporters and advo-
Gates"
A school teacher writes:
L am now being in a very hard
position. 1RO international Refu-
gee Organization) is threatening
to leave me without DIP status if
I am not able to show some proofs
within a month that I am going
TO get an afldevit and that then I
Shall be handed over to the Ger
man authorities, what corresponds
death for me-
Write of Specialties.
These DPS write suggesting
ask Fro1. ---- of Harvard, he
may remember my work" They
write of their specialities. One
man spent years studying ancient
creek inscriptions on monuments |
racing the Black Sea-" Another
became an expert on the fauna
hymenoptera of White Russia" I
To get a DIP into the United
States under the Displaced Per- /
sons Act, you must first provide |
assurances that he will be en- |
ployed here. That is the chief
job of the emergency council
organized four months ago by the /
Joint action of Church World
Service. the National Lutheran
council and United Service for |
New Americans.
In four months the council has |
been able to help only a small |
number of DPS find jobs because
each case requires much time.
But it has succeeded in organizing
professional committees among
American lawyers, educators, en-
g1neers. nurses and architects to
help evaluate and place displaced
European professionals.
Other American professional
groups have had such commit
tees functioning for sometime.
The National Committee for Re-
settlement of Foreign Physicians.
sponsored by the New York As
soc1ation for New Americans, has
been operating in one form or
another since 1888.
1t estimates it has helped 5000
european physicians find en-
ployment in this country, in in
ternshipS, RESIDENCES and other
institutional jobs. Few became
practicing physicians here because
OF the difficulties of surviving
while studying for State board
exams.
But the DIP doctors who did set
up practice in small towns fire.
quently were will received. One
man came to a small Maryland
community at the invitation of
the mayor. Another refugee DOG
tor, arriving in small mid west
ern town, was greeted at the sta
ton by brass band.
Committee Places Hundreds.
The American Committee for
Emigre Scholars, Writers and
Artists have been functioning
since 1945. It has placed many
hundreds" of Europeans, mostly
teachers. in jobs in % States and
Canada.
But though they come here with
remarkable records, though vari-
Gus groups in this country try
to help them, many of the DPS
have difficult time getting started
here.
Mr.. Armstrong cites the record
of a Polish surgeon who had been,
among other things, vice chancel-
lor of the University of Poznan.
He was fellow of the Polish
Academy of Science and an honor