(Special District Manager Letter, Rehabilitation Division, No. 1. Obsolete) AUGUST 19, 1922. The employment representative in a subdistrict office shall be charged to the office of the subdistrict manager in the subdistrict in which he makes his headquarters, in accordance with the assignments listed in Rehabilitation All District Manager Letter No. 36, dated June 21, 1922. R. I. REES, Assistant Director. (Special District Manager Letter, Rehabilitation Division, No. 1-A. Obsolete) DISTRIBUTION OF, AND OFFICIAL STATIONS FOR, SUBDISTRICT EMPLOYMENT OFFICERS JANUARY 4, 1923. 1. Subdistrict employment officers shall be charged to the subdistrict offices mentioned below and hereby designated as their official station. 2. General Order No. 113 authorizes the number of subdistrict employment officers for each district. The following distribution of subdistrict employment officers is authorized: District No. 1.-Boston, 2; Providence, 1; Portland, 1; Springfield, 1. District No. 2.-New York City, 2; Buffalo, 1; Albany, 1; Syracuse, 1; New Haven, 1; Newark, 1; Rochester, 1. District No. 3.-Philadelphia, 2; Pittsburgh, 1; Harrisburg, 1; Scranton, 1. District No. 7.-Cincinnati, 1; Louisville, 1; Indianapolis, 1; Cleveland, 1. District No. 8.-Chicago, 2; Detroit, 1; Milwaukee, 1; Green Bay, 1; Peoria, 1. District No. 9.-St. Louis, 1; Omaha, 1; Kansas City, 1; Des Moines, 1. District No. 10.-Minneapolis, 1; Helena, 1; Duluth, 1; Sioux Falls, 1. District No. 11.-Denver, 1; Salt Lake City, 1; Pueblo, 1. District No. 12.-San Francisco, 1; Los Angeles, 1; Phoenix, 1; Sacramento, 1; Fresno, 1. District No. 13.-Seattle, 1; Spokane, 1; Pocatello, 1; Portland, 1; Tacoma, 1. District No. 14.-Dallas, 1; San Antonio, 1; Oklahoma City, 1; Little Rock, 1. 3. These places were selected as official stations in order to locate the subdistrict employment officers in the larger centers of the districts and cover other subdistrict territories from such centers. 4. Changes in official stations of subdistrict employment officers may be made upon recommendation by the district managers and approval by central office when future developments indicate such changes as being advisable and necessary. 5. This letter cancels and supersedes Special District Manager Letter, Rehabilitation Division, No. 1. R. I. REES, Assistant Director. (Special District Manager Letter, Rehabilitation Division, No. 2. Canceled by Circular No. 268) AUGUST 25, 1922. 1. Please note the attached employment Form No. 30, revised, which is an improvement on the same form as now contained in rehabilitation Letter No. 36. The improvement will be readily apparent by comparison. 2. We are sending you under separate cover a supply of these forms sufficient to furnish each subdistrict office with 25 copies, which you will forward to them without delay. You will also instruct your subdistrict offices to submit their monthly report, starting as of August 31 on this revised form. The district office will then forward a copy of each subdistrict officer's report to central office as per page 6, paragraph 6, Rehabilitation Division, No. 36. 3. It is directed that you give this matter your immediate attention. R. I. REES, Assistant Director. (Special District Manager Letter, Rehabilitation Division, No. 3. Obsolete) INSTRUCTIONS NO. 133, REVISED OCTOBER 14, 1922. 1. A supply of Instructions No. 133 has gone forward to your office. It is the request of central office that these be distributed to each rehabilitation employee concerned. Kindly advise central office not later than November 1 as to whether or not the copies have been distributed. 2. The staff members in the field can not thoroughly cover their responsibilities without a complete knowledge of the contents of this document. It is therefore emphasized that the staff members of the rehabilitation division should immediately acquaint themselves with the contents of instructions No. 133. R. I. REES, Assistant Director. 4228-29-143 2273 (Special District Manager Letter, Rehabilitation Division, No. 4. Obsolete) NOVEMBER 27, 1922. 1. Your attention is invited to the inclosed copies of announcements of civil-service examinations to be held in the near future for Government positions in the Federal civil service. 2. Your special attention is invited to the large number of varied and attractive positions offered in agricultural lines noted on an inclosed list by check mark. A majority of the positions so marked are field positions which enable men occupying them to get in touch with large agricultural enterprises as well as with other Federal and State agricultural activities. 3. The opening salary in some positions may not be as large as some men may desire, but the opportunities thereby made readily available for more attractive work in other agricultural fields are such as to warrant taking measures to bring this matter to the immediate attention of all agricultural trainees in your district. 4. One copy of this announcement has probably been received in your office. Extra copies are inclosed for the employment officer, agricultural supervisor, and agricultural college coordinators concerned. R. I. REES, Assistant Director. (Special District Manager Letter, Rehabilitation Division, No. 5. Obsolete) DECEMBER 5, 1922. 1. Some confusion has arisen in regard to the applicability of Exhibits 43 and 47, particularly in the cases of blind trainees. 2. Exhibit No. 43 shall apply only to blind trainees in placement training. Exhibit No. 47 applies to all trainees in project training, including the blind. R. I. REES, Assistant Director. (Special District Manager Letter, Rehabilitation Division, No. 6. Obsolete) REHABILITATION PERSONNEL REPORT AS OF JANUARY 1, 1923 DECEMBER 21, 1922. It is requested that the following information concerning the personnel assigned to the rehabilitation division in the district office and suboffice, as of January 1, 1923, be submitted to this division not later than January 15, 1923. (c) Salary. (d) Duties and organization title of all rehabilitation assistants assigned to the rehabilitation division in the district office. The designation rehabilitation assistant will include all rehabilitation staff personnel such as training officers, training assistants, placement officers, placement assistants, vocational advisers, and coordinators; also the duties of all teachers, educational directors, counselors assigned, if any, to the rehabilitation division, district office, including staff resident vocational schools. NOTE. Do not include in the rehabilitation division of the district office rehabilitation assistants performing rehabilitation activities in the district local office. (See par. B hereof.) 2. Nonstaff personnel. (a) Name. (b) Date of appointment. (c) Salary. (d) Duties of all stenographers, typists, clerks, messengers, and laborers assigned to the rehabilitation division in the district office, including nonstaff resident vocational schools. NOTE. Do not include in the rehabilitation division of the district office the nonstaff personnel assigned to the training section of the district local office. B. Training section of the district local office and subdistrict offices. 1. Staff personnel. (a) Name. (b) Date of appointment. (c) Salary. (d) Duties. (e) Number of trainees assigned to rehabilitation assistant, institutional and placement (separate each under section section 2); institutional and placement (separate each under section 3); territory covered by names of counties or streets, and total minimum mileage and time necessary to make one complete satisfactory supervision; also the duties of all teachers, educational directors, and counselors assigned to the training section of the subdistrict office, including staff nonresident vocational schools. 2. Nonstaff personnel. (d) Duties of all stenographers, typists, clerks, messengers, and laborers assigned to the training section of the subdistrict office, including nonstaff nonresident vocational schools. C. Chart of organization of the rehabilitation division of the district office. E. Chart of organization of each resident and nonresident vocational school within your district. In these charts show the number of trainees enrolled and the capacity of each school. This report shall be made after a complete and careful survey has been made by the chief of rehabilitation of the personnel assigned to the rehabilitation division in the district, district local, and suboffices. R. I. REES, Assistant Director. (Special District Manager Letter, Rehabilitation Division No. 7. Obsolete) NEW EMPLOYMENT SERVICE MONTHLY REPORT AND LETTER TO DISTRICTS JANUARY 13, 1923. 1. Beginning next month, the rehabilitation division will issue to the field an employment service monthly report and letter. 2. This letter will show the general condition of the employment service throughout the 14 districts. This will be arrived at by a careful study of the monthly condition reports sent in by all districts, as provided for in the new Rehabilitation Letter 36-A. 3. An endeavor will be made to show how each district compares with the other 13 districts in the way of discharging its own employment responsibility. 4. The letter will contain up-to-date suggestions for the improvement of the employment service as a whole. These suggestions will come from three main sources: (a) From the field itself (passing on to all districts ideas, methods, plans, etc., that have been tried in certain districts and found successful). (b) From a study of monthly condition reports as made by central office employment staff. (c) From original studies by central office staff. 5. The purposes of the monthly letter mainly are: (1) To help the districts in the discharge of their employment responsibility. (2) To improve the quality and quantity of the information sent in to central office on the employment service, and to bring about a uniform understanding of the uses of employment Form 30. (3) To improve the employment service work in general, and to bring about a more general understanding throughout the bureau that the wise and successful employment of the bureau's rehabilitated trainees is a most important step in the discharge of obligations to the disabled veteran that has been placed by the country at large upon the United States Veterans' Bureau. 6. The first regular letter of this series will be issued about the 20th of February and will be based upon the monthly condition reports for January, 1923. This report will be the first one issued after you receive the new Rehabilitation Letter 36-A, containing the revised procedure and instructions for the employment service. It is to be hoped that this first report will show that an intensive study of the new procedure has been made by every employment officer. R. I. REES, Assistant Director. (Special District Manager Letter, Rehabilitation Division No. 8. Obsolete) SUGGESTIVE EQUIPMENT, TOOLS AND SUPPLY LISTS FOR BUREAU VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS JANUARY 30, 1923. 1. There is being mailed to you under separate cover a number of suggestive lists of classroom equipment, tools and supplies, based on suggestive training programs for use in the bureau's vocational schools, which central office has compiled and now submits for your consideration. The lists as submitted are not to be considered as final or as a basis for requisitions for equipment by the schools. The supply lists are only intended as covering initial requirements. The complete programs of instruction contained herein are secured from various bureau schools and are to be used by the districts only as suggestive and illustrative outlines. It is expected that each district will develop its own outlines to meet the particular needs existing in that territory. 2. Owing to the variable demands we feel it is almost impossible to establish a standard in the equipment of classrooms, and the attached lists are sent to you in the hope that constructive suggestions will be made to central office. 3. The lists will be revised if suggestions indicate the advisability of such action. We are interested in knowing how far you can use such material, and in receiving your reaction in order that we may have an understanding of the need of continuing the study and development of the scheme. 4. The occupations covered are as follows: Auto mechanics (general), auto electrician, auto trimmer and upholsterer, auto painter, auto tire repairer, battery repairer, cabinetmaker, carpenter, commercial occupations, draftsman (architectural), draftsman (mechanical), draftsman (topographical), dentist (mechanical) electrician (inside wireman), electrician (motors and generators, M. & M.), furniture upholsterer, hat pressing and blocking, jewelry manufacturing, repairing, and engraving, lens grinding (surface, edge, mounting), machinist (general), painter (house), painter (sign), photographer, plumber, pressing and repairing, printing (job), shoe repairer, sheet metal and auto radiator mechanic, surveyor and topographer, show card writer, tailor (custom), typewriter repairer, watch repairer, welder (oxyacetylene). 5. Will you favor us with your reaction at an early date? H. V. STIRLING, Acting Assistant Director. |