OCR Text |
Show JOB BUREAUS HAVE SEP1MCTB Council of Defense Office, Cady Says, Merely Emergency Emer-gency Organization. The soldier and sailor cmplyment bureau organized by the state council of defenso does not assume the functions func-tions of the United States employment service, it was announced yesterday by Farker B. Cady, state director of the federal service, to correct an impression im-pression that because of tho curtailment curtail-ment of the employment service, effective effec-tive today, the work of the service would be discontinued. Tho state organization, it was stated by JJr. Cady, is merely an emergency organization, organized to give opportunity oppor-tunity to the discharged service man to obtain employment. The United States employment service, ie explained, obtains ob-tains employment for civilians, men and women, as well as service men. Owing to the failure of congress to pass an appropriation for tho maintenance main-tenance of the service, a general reduction reduc-tion in the working forco is today going go-ing into effect throughout the country. coun-try. The activities of tho service, however, will be maintained as heretofore. here-tofore. The Salt Lake department has moved to offices at 12-14 Postoffice plaoo, and will continue its work at that location. A telegram was received by Mr. Cady yesterday from Director General Gen-eral J. B. Dcnsmore, head of the service ser-vice at Washington, stating that all over tho country contributions by state and city authorities are enabling the continuance of 200 offices, besides the fifty-six the service had already arranged ar-ranged to maintain with funds on hand. It is expected that J.00 more will be taken care of by their communities. com-munities. The Ohio legislature yesterday yes-terday appropriated $18,000 to enable the service to continue its work in that state. The director general characterizes character-izes the response of the country a most remarkable demonstration of the national na-tional realization of the urgent need for full servico to place soldiers and war workers. Tho telegram contained tho following statement, made by Colonel Arthur Woods of the war department and head of the emergency committee designed to overcome the general understanding which is hurting the service: "There appears to havo arisen a misunderstanding misunderstand-ing of the purposo of the emergency committee on employment of soldiers, sailors and war workers organized by tho council of national defense, and a mistaken belief that the committee is taking over the work of tho United States employment service because of the partial curtailment of its field organization, or-ganization, necessitated by lack of funds. It should be made plain to fhe country at large that the committee commit-tee is a temporary body and that it and tho government departments and boards represented in the committee j will not attempt to creato a substitute ! emplovmcn service or in any way take over the functions of the United States I employment styvice. I "'The committee intends to give the . fullest support to the work of the Ur.itod States employment service and to encourage towns aurl cities, through jiublic ami private contributions, to i-arrv ou tho bureaus for returning soldier's sol-dier's and sailors and local employment employ-ment offices, which the servico itself will be uuable to finance until congress appropriates the necessary money. The bureaus for returning soldiers and sailors must be maintained and increased in-creased and all public and private efforts ef-forts in every community to assist sol- diers and sailors to suitable employment employ-ment must be co-ordinated and centralized cen-tralized through those bureaus. The welfare organizations and many commercial, com-mercial, civic and other voluntary bodies already are working through tliem, but this unity of effort must be complete and all-embracing if the employment problem is to be satisfactorily satis-factorily solved." |