Show strive for employment k P of disabled veterans act to furnish handicapped with chance for gainful occupation industry pledges full operation cooperation co by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service 1610 eye street NW washington D 0 when a lot more workers than jobs begin to plague the employment offices of the country some come 2 minion million men stand to have a little tougher sledding than their fellows that Is unless the program that will be getting under way as these lines appear achieves the worthy purpose that its designers have for or it the potential workers who are going to get this special help are the men who have made the second greatest sacrifice in world war li 11 the ones who gave all never came back im going to talk about the disabled american veterans veteran in times of 0 great unemployment a person with a disability has two strikes on him when pitted tor for a job ob against a perfectly able bodied worker therefore the disabled american veterans a veterans organization whose membership is confined solely to the war disabled Is s setting up the machinery to go to 0 bat for him so that he from whom much has been taken to keep the r rest e st of us secure within the wide bounds of these united states will have at least as good a chance as his bis ab able e bodied colleague in getting a job where he can e earn arn a living tor for himself and his family for the first time in its history DAV the disabled american veterans has set up a highly integrated national network of employment officers headed in washington by dr gilbert S macvaugh a disabled veteran of this war and a former lieutenant commander with wide experience peri ence in personnel and employ ment co these employment officers have their hands deac reaching hing out in two directions one toward the disabled veteran and one toward the employer in an endeavor to bring the two together so EO that the employer and the veteran may meet and reach an agreement en an a job let me give you two small examples of the type of at thing the DAV Is if getting ready to do in a big way take the case of the man who had been wounded in the invasion of 0 normandy an injury to his spinal column paralyzed him from the waist down so that he is bedridden on directions from the washington DAV office the local tm tin officer of the DAV contacted the man to see what kind of work he might do while in bed and yet receive some income in the mans community there was a small email plant tor for making ho hooked aked rugs the rhe DAV representative arranged to 0 o have the bedridden bed ridden n veteran make hooked rugs and market them with this concern then there Is an entirely different type of case seeing that justice Is done the disabled veteran after he boes get a job A guard was employed in a certain public build ng ag ile he had a slight nervous disorder tor for which a psychiatrist was treating him prescribing a little medication to be taken while on duty one day the medicine made the be veteran feel drowsy and he raked asked to be relieved from duty tor for a few hours until he could overcome 1 that was refused him subsequently charges were preferred against him and he was given a letter of suspension the DAV na onal donal employment officer went to lemat for him and had the whole case uncovered find ind boys can do D job well back of the helping hand offered to the disabled veterans to get them into jobs a lot of spade work has been going on the ground has been een prepared with great care so that when the crisis comes many workers and few jobs jobstle the former GI who literally gave part of at himself tor for the rest of cf us will have lave an opportunity to work the DAV asserts that he can fie d a job well in spite of hl his handicap hand leap it points doines to records it Is accumulating w aich show that when a disabled veteran la is hired he shows great fare care and conscientiousness in performing his task its something uke like the story of the om old washington airport lt it was one of the most dan daa berous erous in the united states but there here were no major accidents on it the answer was that pilots knowing the hazards took extra precautions in ausink usan the field so a disabled veteran already knowing what it Is to be handicapped uses considerable extra care I 1 said the DAV had set up a national employment program for the first time in its existence headed up in washington by a national employment officer then es each ch state has a chief employment officer the DAV in each state I 1 is divided into chapters or loc local units and each has an employment officer also thus bringing the contact of ct this helping hand right down into the community where the veteran lives or 1 is hospitalized before the program can begin operating in the complete way envisioned by its planners the men who can offer the jobs have to be contacted personally and the challenge of their opportunity to make work available to ta handicapped veterans has hai to be put squarely before them this has been the first task of dr macvaugh and his corps of employment officers DAV gets gels off to good start A strong beginning was made when at a conference in atlantic city the following representative organizations among others were contacted personally by the DAV national employment officer and asked to influence the businesses for which they are spokes spokesmen ren to put disabled veterans on their work rolls the national association of manufacturers the american bankers association the chamber of commerce the national council of farmer operatives cooperatives co the american farm bureau federation the american retail federation the air transport association aircraft industries dus tries association investment bankers association committee of economic development american trucking association american waterways operators association 0 of f american railroads national foreign trade council national dry goods association international association of lions clubs national grange national Ass association ocla of motor bus operators and so on but this gives you an indication of the scope of the cultivation of the soil for jobs tor for disabled veterans available jobs are made known to the veterans employment representative senta tive of the united states employment service which has agreed to designate an assistant in each state who will specialize in the employment ent of war disabled GIs the DAV has developed a system whereby its chapter employment officer knows know as soon as a man who has a disability is released from an institution and is available for wor work k in his community 0 mm unity he also knows the disabled veterans living there who need jobs ais it is his task to bring the men and the jobs together it is the DAV chapter employment officer who takes the man to the veterans employment representative senta tive of the USES where the jobs are registered and on to the prospective spec tive lve employer if necessary to clinch the employment of the ex GI there are five planks in the em loument play ment platform of the DAV first to convince employers that they should hold employ disabled american veterans somewhere immediately second to t support the ing of disabled veterans for more than one key job la in an industry so go that when heavy unemployment develops the disabled mao man will not be the first discharged for he will be able to do more than one job third to advocate increased wages for disabled veterans because they hey have become more valuable val as a result of ef the multiple Talc lne fourth to try to improve working conditions for the he disabled ex GI so BO that his job li Is a pleasant one fifth to nee mee that preference Is given the disabled veteran in staying on the job when people have to be released |