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Show WILL PREPARE MEW FDR FEDERAL SERVICE Department of Labor to Open Instruction School for Examiners. Increased Opportunities to Be Afforded Those Who Qualify for Duty. Announcement was made yesterday at V.iti Io.'hI biu'-au of the t.'nitrd Ktiitw employment em-ployment service that the department of labor wilt, on January 6. begin a fonrse nf normal instruction for examiners with a eonf'TRnr at W'a.-dilngton. A t ier a fortnight's study of vital prnfTlems with v hl'.-h the department of labor Is concerned, con-cerned, especially with reference to tho replacing of soldiers In civil life, those who pass the examinations will bo sent out Into tho ffeld to look after labor distribution dis-tribution and placement. 'I lilrt v employees of Hie federal employment em-ployment service have been selected to tii ke. t be first course, com pie tins which they will be assigned to their own stales as far as possible, and there, in turn, they will train their own examiners for ffervlcR. State Represented. j Fifteen states sire -to be represented at th first conference. Instruction talks on the scope and methods of service will bo j given bv administration officers In charge of various divisions of the work. Jnipor-tnnt Jnipor-tnnt topics, touching upon the work of t he employment service, In tho field of industrial adjustment, will bo discussed by men connected with this branch of work, each of whom is a specialist and a leader In the shaping of the labor program pro-gram of the country. The course is to be an Intensive one. thorough and broad, and Is intended to mako posslblo uniformity of Instruction to local officers. Increase All Opportunities. Rather than decrease the avenues of employment for women, the United States government contemplatos Increasing them, according to an announcement made yesterday yes-terday at tho local office of tho weather bureau. On the same basis Ra men, they are to be accepted for the position of weather observer, one of the most arduous ardu-ous and difficult branches of the service. Involving the reading of the weather and rain pauses on tho roof of t ho Boston building In Salt Lake, for instance. The official thermometers are located on a high pinnacle, built upon the roof, reached by means of a narrow ladder. And sometimes some-times the wind blows a hurricane on tho roof of the Boston building. Tho position carries with It a salary of J10SO per annum. Women from 18 to GO years of age are eligible. Examinations will bo held January S and February 6. Information may be obtained from C. A. I'rockwell at the information window at tho postofflce. |