Show Jewelers Need Artisans i l 14 2 1 4 l 2 4 l I Heroes Off Offered r C Chance y Disabled Soldiers Willing to Learn Trade in in Demand Says V Woods 41 tT soldiers who are either cither DISABLED JL skilled jewelers or who are willing willIng will wm- ing Ins to go S-O through a a. course of ap- ap In order to learn jewelry manufacturing are cro In great demand In In- in all alI the Jewelry centers of the United States particularly In Rhode Rhod Island I It Is announced today b by the war ar de department de- de department through CoL Cot Arthur Woods assistant to the secretary of or war and andIn andIn andin In charge of the campaign for tor the r reemployment re- re employment ment of ex- ex service ex-service er menThe menThe men The editor of a leading trade journal journal journal jour jour- nal devoted to the Interests of ot the manufacturing Jewelers j reports that the labor situation in the trade is very ery acute Manufacturers are said to be be- beat at their wits' wits ends to keep anywhere any- any where within hailing distance of filling their orders In fact fa sonic some manufacturers are arc re bidding a against aln t their competitors hiring their men awa away from n thorn at greatly TUU advanced ad wages E Every ory opportunity Is offered cx- cx service men whether disabled or not to become liberal wage earners at as earl early a date as possible without reference reference ref ref- to apprenticeship limitations Men Ien who have ha lost Jost either a leg or a afoot afoot afoot foot can easily become bench hands bands or stonecutters Men en whose health has been injured b by gas gns or otherwise e can find employment in the tho Jewelry manufacturing manu manu- Industry under excellent sanitary conditions Several Se reasons are arc arc assigned by byI members of or the Jewelry trade for tor the I present labor shortage In the first firs place there has been no apprenticeship p I system in n vogue ue in the Jewelry bus busi business ue ness fleas In many years cars Secondly there has bas been a general dependence upon immigration to supply labor for tor tho thoI th o Immigration I cheaper and rougher process gration has been stopped and there Is s I therefore a decided shortage of at skilled d jewelers and a small shortage of unskilled un unskilled un- un uni i skilled Ja labor or I |