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Show Employment of Ex- Service Men High praise for the efficiency j and zeal of Utah local boards in j finding jobs, through their reem-j reem-j ployment committeemen, for the I State's returning soldiers has been received from Naioal Selective Service Headquarters, it was announced an-nounced today by Major H. A. Rich, Acting State Director of Selective Service. Hundreds of j returning selectees, National and ! National Guardsman, and other jUtah ex-service men have been restored to their former civiliai jobs or provided with new im ployment without a serious hitch in any case, the Director said. Approximately 61, 500 of the about 200,000 members of the Nation's armed forces whom the War Department is returning to civil life during the last quarter of this year had been relieved from active duty between September Sep-tember 1 and October 15, 1941, and virtually all of them quickly placed in civilian employment, National Selective Service Headquarters Head-quarters stated. I addition, it announced an-nounced that Selective Service local boards were instrumental between July 1, 1940, and September Sept-ember 1, 1941, in obtaining civiliai civ-iliai jobs for around 150,000 other members of the armed forces whose terms of enlistment expires ex-pires in that period. Commenting on the handling of these reemployment cases by State Headquarters and local boards, Brig, Gen. Lewis B. Ber-shey, Ber-shey, Director of Selective Service, Ser-vice, saicU . "Credit for this important welfare wel-fare is due particularly to the initiative ini-tiative of our State Directors and the voluntary teamwork of the local boards and their reemployment" reemploy-ment" committeemen. In this respect re-spect the work of the members of the Selective Service System in the State of Utah has been yp-ical yp-ical of the entire country. Our local board members are proving to be just as zealous in finding jobs for men returning from the Nation's armed forces as they are in recruitment for the - Army. "The handling of these thous-of thous-of the Selective Service System, virtually no complaints is a ands of reemployment cases with splendid commentary on the efficiency ef-ficiency and zeal of the members and an encouraging augury for the success of the entire reemployment reem-ployment program." The Selective Service System, Major Rich pointed out, has the task of obtaining civilian employment employ-ment for all men released by the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, j including enlisted men as well as selectees. Thes men are instructed to get in touch with the reemployment reem-ployment committeeman of their local boards as soon as they reach their homes. The reemployment committeemen receive, well in advanc of the return of each man, data from the National Selective Service Headquarters giving his civilian occupation, skill and ex- perience and his military sendee record. If the ex-service man has a job awaiting him, the reemployment reemploy-ment committeeman of his local board taks up his case with his former employer to have him reinstated re-instated in accordance with the provisions of the Selective Training Train-ing and Service Act of 1940. If the man was unemployed when he enlisted for military service, or desires a new job, the committeeman commit-teeman refcrrs his case to his Stntc Employment office. This i done to facilitate coopcra' :on of employers who arc urged to list thoir employment needs with 'their Stnte Employment Office ; 'and to c-xpioss preference for; ex-s-rvice men. e |
