The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1917-06-28
Won't Change Labor standard.

ing conditions be modified during the
war to enable an increased output,
the labor division of the state council
of defense went on record as opposed
| to notifications being made at this
time. 1t also vigorously opposed the
enlisting of women for work in in
dustrial establishments now, contend
ing there is no demand for such and
that women can be of more use in the
home aiding Food Controller Hoover.
Though no recommendations we're
made, it is probable that at some fu-
ture date the state may be asked to
register every man and woman be-
tween the ages of 18 and 60 years, SO
that, if conditions develop the ncces'
sity, every person capable of produc.
ing may be put at some sort of pro-
ductive work. The proposition was
discussed fully.
The vagrant proposition also was
considered, and it is probable that
Chairman Fred C. Croxton will name
former Lieut.. Gov. William A. Green
lund of Cleveland and H. H. Shirer Of
the state board of charities to work
out plan of putting the loafer to
work.
Mediation in labor troubles will be
one of the big tasks of the labor divi'
sion of the defense council. 1t will at.
tempt to keep it's finger on the pulse
of the labor situation and whenever
| trouble is apparent seek to bring
about Cancellation before a strike de-
velops. No attempt will be made to
supplant the states chief mediator,
the council merely supplementing his
efforts in settling labor disputes.
No attempt will be made to work
out a solution for filling the gaps in
the labor field which will develop by
withdrawing men through the select
i've draft, as there is no method of as
certaining now how industries will be
affected and what ones most. This
will be worked out after the draft has
been maze.
Highway construction and repair
must go ahead at all hazards, it was
decided, and every effort will be made
to obtain labor for road contractors.
The council especially urged that work
en- the principal arteries of rural COM
merce be pushed to supplement the
work of railroads and make it possible
for farmers to market their crops.
Prepares for Draft.
Up to the very hour that selection Is
begun, each county and city will be
given credit for every young man en-
listed as a volunteer in the Ohio Ma
tional Guard or regular army. The
credit will go to the community in
which the volunteer has his residence
The process of determining, on q
just and exact basis, the quota of each
county and of giving credit for enlist
ments, the number of volunteers II
each county to be subtracted from
: what otherwise would be that county'E
quota, constitutes the next step to
E ward the second great operation under
the transcription act, that of selection
In preparation for the step, the state
adopted these courses of action:
livery commanding officer Of the
= Ohio National Guard is instructed t
report at once the membership of hi
command and the residence of eacl
member
2-The reports will divide the vol
unteers into two classes-Class A
those enlisted up to and including Ma!
81, 1917, and Class B, those enlisted
since, this class carrying, up to thu
: last moment, the enlistments TO
3 which each community is to be givel
credit.
Nominates Exemption Boards.
The governor has sent to the pro
vost marshal general at Washington
the list of nominations of members o
county and district exemption board
=, for Ohio under the selective draft law
> The men will determine the seleC
v tions and exemptions from among tn
sos, 900 young Ohioans registered TO
military service.
I The governors nominations ar
!. made on recommendation Of the reg
istratiOn boards of the several cour
n ties, these boards having been name
,. originally by the common plea
q judges. The nominations will be TO
;. lowed by official appointment in tn
r name of the president.
k In each county of approximate
= $4,000 population there is but on
!. board. In all other counties there
o a board for each unit of the same al
= proximate population.
a. The plan of organization Is tn
S same as with the original registratio
= boards. Each exemption board col
IS sists of two laymen of opposite pol
q tics and q medical member, and
# industrial communities labor repr
n sentatives have been added to max
/" fourth members.
Carpenters Are Needed.
IS According to word to the centr;
n office of the labor department, Obi
a branch of the council of national d
II fense, there is urgent need of 2(
skilled carpenters at once at the ne
n government aviation field at Daytol
" The department has arranged for a
il plicants to get in touch with propC
p officers through the Dayton free er
1. ployment bureau. There also will /
It a big demand for hundreds of wor
h ers, skilled and unskilled, in prepar
4. ton of the Chillicothe military ca
q. tonment, work on which has just b
gun.
Precautlon Against Fire.
,e Ninety-five per cent of the gra
h. elevators and food repositories
10 Ohio need some added improvemel
n by way Of precaution against fir
,r ranging from the correcting of sme
:. dafoo+s IN earnest crusadinp again