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Show Jobs for Veterans is a Big Responsibility For United States Busnesse and Industry America cannot afford a generation of forgotten men the unemployed veterans who have done a job for their country, coun-try, but whose country cannot find jobs for them. Their numbers has grown as the war in Vietnam has wound down. Although much progress has been made in assisting them, over 2,000 Vietnam veterans aged 20-29, remain jobless. And their unemployment rate has been higher than that for their counterparts who did not serve. The returning veterans represent, as in all wars, a cross section of America, but chiefly they are highly employable and eager to catch employable and eager to catch up with their careers. They are better educated and better trained than veterans of earlier wars and like them, eager to capitalize on their military expericences as they enter the civilian labor market. Unfortunately, far too many of them have had disproportionate dispropor-tionate difficulty in finding jobs so that they can apply their abilities and energies, and make use of their training train-ing and qualifications. Finding jobs for veterans should be the first order or business. It is not something that can be left entirely to government which has provided pro-vided assistance to veterans, has expended massive funds for schooling and training, and has created thousands of new city and state jobs for veterans through tne Emergency Emer-gency Employment Act. Jobs are basically a local affair local, because that's where the jobs are, not only in our big companies, but in the medium-size businesses and small organizations. Every employer should develop de-velop a veteran priority program pro-gram within his company. Personnel directors should be instructed to look first to our pool of unemployed veterans vete-rans whenever an opening occurs oc-curs and to strive to create new jobs which veterans can fill. Listing job openings with the United States Employment Service, where veterans have referral priority, and finding out more about Veterans Administration Ad-ministration programs are good first steps. Let us all make the finding of jobs for our veterans, especially the deserving dis- abled veterans who have special spe-cial needs, a coomunity and a personal matter. |