SUMMER POSITIONS IN WAR WORK OPEN TO STUDENTS

Data concerning many positions open for summer work in various plants engaged in war work under contract with the Government, has been collected by the University Employment Bureau. It is the intention of this office to assist all members of the University who are unfit for military service this year in obtaining work at one of these plants, and thus aid in solving the war labor problem.

A great variety of openings have been found for college men, with or without practical experience in some trade, who wish to be of service to the country in this way throughout the summer. Although the majority of the industries greatly prefer to employ men who will not be returning to college next fall, almost all of them have vacant positions and are entirely willing to give men the jobs temporarily. It is to be noted, however, that but few of the places open to college men for the summer are of a clerical nature, the vast majority entailing labor of a heavier sort.

Several of the plants, upon taking new and untrained men into their employ, are offering these beginners an opportunity to learn a job first and then start working at it. The Remington Arms, Union Metallic Cartridge Company, for example, has established a training school for new men, where the latter are taught a trade, and after they have completed a thorough course at this school they go to work at the machines.

In addition to this opportunity, there are positions waiting for men at the Texas Steamship Company of Bath, Me., the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company, and the L. H. Shattuck Shipbuilding Company. All of these plants are now engaged in building certain quotas of Wooden ships as a part of the new emergency fleet of the merchant marine.

The Meade Morrison Manufacturing Company is the only plant which has announced clerical positions for college men.