Y. M. C. A. Work for Returned Men A department of the local Y.M.C.A. work which is receiving considerable impetus at the present ime is that of the industrial work which was recently inaugurated in order to meet the heavy demands for assistance in one way or another made by the returning labourers from France, South Africa, and Mesopotamia. With aid from the International Committee of New York, a staff of three capable secretaries was engaged and during the past summer they have been developing the work along a number of lines. Two of these secretaries were themselves engaged in Association work for the labourers in France and have also studied in America, and are, therefore, particularly fitted for the important tasks that confront them.
There is a steady stream of these men into the Association every day, some needing identification at the bank, others sick and infirm, and still others looking for jobs' The sick are sent usually to Shantung Road Hospital and St. Luke's Hospital, while those in search of work are sent over to the Public Works Department, or to the Municipal or French Police, which departments have to date given employment to several hundred of these men. The more skilled are turned over to the concerns that may be needing their particular services.
The work of the Industrial Department, however, is not confined to returned labourers, but a number of centres are being opened up in the industrial sections of Shanghai, where lectures on health and sanitation, travel, and subjects of general interest, moving picture entertainments, ete, are given, educational classes conducted, and assistance given to the men in the writing of letters, saving of money, etc.
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