Job Opportunities

Believe it or not! It is true, job opportunities are on the increase and are beginning to open up for members of the Negro race in the city of Seattle. Despite the fact that it takes a war or a serious International Crisis to make work opportunities available, we are at present faced with increased job opportunities or opportunities of gainful employment in the vicinity of the City of Seattle, although these opportunities are not confined to nor developed within the defense industry program.

We think also that you should be reminded or that it should be pointed out to you that we are faced with a very definite responsibility in filling these job opportunities. After all, this is more than just another job replacement. It is more involved than a program wherein a Negro replaces a Negro worker. These job opportunities are being created by the elimination of the Japanese constituency of our citizenry from the field of gainful employment. This, of course, carries with it several very definite involvements. First of all, it is the same as a creation of a new job opportunities for Negro workers in the City of Seattle. These opportunities carry with them more than just a responsibility of doing the job or the task involved in the job. They carry with them the responsibility of each person employed so executing his obligations and fulfilling his task, as to make certain that the job that he is now doing can and will be kept open for the younger members of our race today and even for unborn members of our race to be born in the future. In this field of New Job opportunities we find the development of employment opportunities as Red Caps, at the Union Station, and also the replacement of Japanese Crews of Cooks, Waiters, and Servicemen, in various clubs about town, and also opportunities for employment as Western Union Delivery Boys. This, then as we see it very definitely calls for the establishment of a program of careful counseling on the part of the parents with the youngsters in their families in regard to the development of proper training and work habits. This is of importance if we expect to man these jobs at present with people who will go commit themselves as to further guarantee these jobs being open to Negro workers a generation hence.

I am sure that we are all mindful of the fact that though these jobs are opened up to us during an emergency, if we do execute out tasks with care and deliberation in fulfilling these jobs, we then can, and will, be able to hold these jobs at the close of the emergency.

Persons interested in filling one of these new job opportunities are urgently requested to apply at the office of the local Urban League, 326 Railway Exchange Building, and to talk with Mr. Squires, Executive Secretary of the Urban League, and file application for that job in which they are interested.

May we close this article by again pointing out the need for the development of new attitudes on the part of Negro workers in filling these new job opportunities. If we expect to emerge from our present position of denial and postcription we must emerge through the execution of job opportunities made available to us in the most acceptable and commendable manner and fashion possible.