Cross has established an Employment Bureau in room No. 308, 113 Kiukiang Road, (telephone 16674) for the benefit of 130,000 refugees who have been idle and dependent on charity during the last nine months. The object of the employment office is an attempt to help the refugees to help themselves, Services of the Bureau are free: entire wages will go to the employees, This Bureau has on its files thousands of experienced cotton mill operatives, various sorts of factory workers, carpenters, masons, painters, plumbers, mechanics, electricians, copper and brass-smiths, blacksmiths, tailors, shoemakers, tanners, shop workers, cooks, waiters and boys. transportation "workers, chauffeurs, gardeners, general utility coolies and workers of scores of other trades, It makes no charges for inquiries and applications made by prospective employers to the Bureau for any class of skilled and/or unskilled labourers that it has on file.
Prospective employers would obtain for their requirements satisfactory services of the refugees, and at the same time be helping a worthy cause.
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