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3 | emp001 | THE COUNCIL OF YOUNG MEN'S
HEBREW MD KINDRED ASSOCIATIONS: The Committee on General Activities of the Jewish Welfare Board is designated this Council as the agency for organizing its constituent associations for ie-employment work in communities where the YMHA or kindred organizations are active. The judge your association to be such an organization. There will be adequate financial help for doing this work, and Me therefore suggest to you that you at once, in order to upbuild your association through the interest that returning men may take in it by virtue of their securing employment through it, proceed along the following lines: 1. Conduct, in accordance with the letters already sent you, a survey of the previous employments of men. in service, getting in touch where possible with the man but always with his family and his previous employer to ascertain whether such previous employment will be open to him. The cards for this work will be furnished by our office in any quantity that you may need or desire. The origin of these cards should be returned to this office and copies made made for your own information and files. The Council will have adequate finances for paying the postage necessary in this work, if you feel the postage ought to be paid, for paying for the hiring of temporary cleric assistance, and also, where necessary, for a part-time salary (a moderate amount) to some member or executive of the association who will devote time to this work, 2. Sift out in these previous employment records, individuals who will return to work with their parents or with their previous employers, |
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and concentrate your efforts upon securing
positions, indicated as preferable on the card, for men who have not yet
returned or who having returned, find their previous employment not
available. 3. Organize from the Association and the community at large a Committee on Employment arid Re-educational "York. This Committee and, if possible, should be kept down to three in number, and should be made up of a business man of standing, a profession al man of standing, and, here possible, a labor man of standing. 4. Notify the Council at once of every returned disabled man who, when discharged from the army or navy, returns to the community. The Council will take steps directly to help him in securing compensation allowances, re-education where necessary, and re- employment. Certain centers affiliated with the Council will be fitted up at the expense of the Council with apparatus, instruments and machinery which will make possible re-educational work. 5. When employment is secured, please fill out the larger record form, a copy of which is appended to this letter. 6. In view of the fact that this work is proceeding in such close co-operation with the Jewish Welfare Board, andas a matter of fact has been handed over to us by an important Committee of the Welfare Board, it is highly essential that you stress the fact that there is no conflict here between our work and the work of the Welfare Board, and that, in addition, we act promptly and well in securing employment. 7. While co-operation should be offered to the Community Board for Returning Soldiers and Sailors, organized by the U.S. Employment Service, the association should in no case restrict itself from securing employment directly for the men who come to it for employment, A similar form of co-operation might obtain with chambers of commerce or other community organizations that may from time to time be established for handling this work. PLEASE SEND IN FROM TIME TO TIME AS PROMPTLY IS POSSIBLE ALL PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT AND FINAL EMPLOYMENT RECORDS. On the capacity that the association movement and the kindled organizations show in this work, will depend their future Jewish community support. Sincerely yours, |
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