Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-06
STATE SAFETY BOARD
TO MOBILIZE LABOR
Needs Five Toilers to Maintain
Every Keystone Sammee
at the Front

The plans of the civilian service and labor
department of the Committee of Public
Safety of Pennsylvania have been completed
and some idea of the gigantic problem to
be solved was made known today by John
c. Frazee, vice director of the department.
I'VE want to enlist every man, woman
and child in Pennsylvania in great
civilian army" declared Mr.. Frazee. The
purpose of this army is to meet the indus
trial situation brought about by the war
I'VE can send thousands of men to fight
in France, but we must back them up with
arms ammunition, uniforms, food and ships
to carry the supplies.
ITO do this we need a great Industrial
army, moblized in the most efficient way
possible. This is our job. and here are few
of our plans:
First we have established this central
Office in Philadelphia In addition to this
we have divided Pennsylvania into six
zones In each of these zones will be Il
central Office which in turn will be In touch
with employment offices in every county.
Take very simple illustration. A
farmer in Juniata County needs farm labor
He notifies the county farm agent. who noti-
fies the county employment office.
IF possible. the county office gets the
farmer what he wants. If the matter is too
intricate for them to tackle, they refer it to
the zone office. The object of each zone is
to handle the supply of labor and the de-
mand for 1t.
"The Department of Labor in Harrisburg
| is in touch with every zone and the work
| il is doing So are We We SUPP lement and
| coordinate with the Department of Labor In
| Harrisburg. 1t is the only way to under
| stand the labor situation,
| To-day we are sending out letters asking
| all business men employing more than 4OC
| men to appoint a works correspondent from
| their factories furnaces or mills
| "They. too, will be in constant touch will
| the county employment Offices the zones
, and the central office. They will serve tn,
| business man. Later we will write to mer
| employing less than 400 persons. Eventu
| ally we will have perhaps 10000 of thes,
works correspondents actively in touch will
| the situation.
"In this way we will mobilize labor Thei
| we must train it, You see we have divided
| labor into three classes:
unemployed regular labor, employed
| regular labor, and the reserves. The re
serves will consist of people who do no
usually work, who perhaps do not have t.
work, but will do so now for patriotic mo
tives, when we realize the necessity o
carrying this war to a successful termina
ton.
They must be trained. The young peo
pie must be safeguarded morally and phys
icaly. We want no i'll effects of the un
natural conditions brought about by thi
war in our Americans Of tomorrow. IT.
safeguard our young people now is to safe
guard the future nation.
"They will have physical training t
| prepare them for their new work The
will have regular hours and the right sor
of diversions, and no one will be employed
who Is under sixteen.
"Our plans, most of them, are just go
ing into operation.
'"The success is of vital Importance, f6
Pennsylvania Is a big factor. or thu
two million tons of shipping just take'
| over by the Government, nearly one-tentl
was commandeered here In Philadelphia.
"About one-twelfth Of the people OF tn
United States able to work are in Penn
syvania.
| "Our textile mills. our locomotive plants
our steel and iron plants, must all coun
for much In the present crisis.
so we hope to provide for every emer
gency to meet every situation.
.'The National Guard and the draft hav'
, | taken from between $4,000 to 10000 mel
, from all kinds of industry. Their places
must be filed within the next three months
|, | we want our bureau, our army or workers
m nroye equal to the task of going on a
though nothing had disturbed labor
1--WE need five people to keep one sam
NEE in France.
."rhat's the task set for us-ahd w
,,,ust do our best to meet It."