The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1917-12-14
TO ENROLL MEN
FOR WAR WORK
Labor Is Needed in ShipyardS ana
Factories
HIGHEST SPEED IS NECESSARY
Unsuitable Demands Of the Large Ar
my at the Front Prompts Govern
nent to inaugurate a Public
Service Reserve.

Service Reserve.
WashiIgton.-A campaiGas to carroll
the county in the United Sat4ss public
service reserve, with parucGtao' etfo~c
10 get mon for the shipysnis. will tee
inauguratpd by the United Suit"s DE-
partment bf labor, acting ia cooper;
tion with the shipping bcts'd. dccor'.-
ing To u statement made by william
Edwin Hall. national director Of th'
reserve. State directors nrc t'.ing aI-
pointed and local organiynfso44, per
fected ia every state.
The primary object " this ca:h-
pnign," said Mr.. Hall, sis TO obtain a.
large list of skilled and scmi-skilleo
men who are not now producing VIZ
material or doing work useful 10 1iIc
prosecution of the war. and 20 g',
them into the shlpyards anG thc "a
tories which must be maintainCd ~ tlir
highest speed If industry is 10 meet tin
Unsuitable demands of n large army ~
the front.
1T appears from published report
such as the arrival of the naiIshow III
vision in France, that the Number 80
American troops at or near the iiriu-
line is constantly increasing, and ~"
civilians WI lom these troops kive gone
over there 10 protect, would BE- shame
fully derelipt In our natioah dutY an,
quite wanting In patriotism Ia we die
not make every personal sacrifice !"
keep our Snldiers 100 per cent sup
piled
Labor Needed IN War Work.
a number of the nOlie4ser,tiai in
dustries are employing iaber which is
urgently needed for war x,srS-in ibr
shipyardS, fctr example Ore is SUI
prised to see bow many kinds of work
crs are need,E 10 build siup. The
shipping boarNi has prepared for ibo
public service Preserve list of SS dif
terent peace" occupations from whi'h
men muSt-ah ioutely muSt-be draNI
I'm order that ouS tremendous siiphulI
ing can be c;irticd out ia time. Nol
often hear II said that ships win WI
The war but today IL is being put H. .
little different vlay by those who know.
the situation: 4 failure on the p"rr
Of American civilians to build the nee
essary number 4 ships viii make r.
impossible for the United states So
continue to fight. \ lack Of ships may
lose the war
The United St3teS puh.ir Scrvic'
reserve" explained hr Uail. is work
ing at high speed .Spduy - 0btain si
these men needed fa shipbuiiinC. fo-
making equipment, pr gun m&nut".-
turing, for mechanicHi draugfIting f.-
hundreds of other Vital Operations.
from the 'non-eSsensai Industries
that Is, from Industries which are in
portant to country al peace but. IN
the final analysis, vIrt,iauy gnnece>-
sary to n country at wac.
Our effort Is always te obtain ,hc
workers for war industry Nithou-
crippling the peace industry. We vii
not draw away an Over-prDduction ~
employees from any one locality, fraIu
any one industry, from ans one en-
plOyer. War means SUFFERING A con
inevitable. The public service reserve
proposes TO bring about the neccSsary
shifting Of labor with just as little d.
turbance as possible. We want no a..
dustry and no employer to rave to
bear any more than fair. legitmatc
share of the burden which the prr-
emptory demands of war tIIcow upou
al of us"
Differs From Army Enlistment.
Men who enroll IA the United
States public service reserve state
their trade and suggest other classeS
OF work they could do, II necessary. FOR
the war The enrolled mea viii re-
main at their present jobs and when
they are notified that a1 Spportm,ts
To put them into war WORK has ARISEN,
they are under no obligation 10 accept
the new Jobs unless mtiSfbed with
wages and conditions. Thus their Ell
rOllment in the reserve differs from en-
listment in the army. where NJ soldier
has no choice bat to obey.
Every day more and mere Amer.
can workers are begiDniLg - feel in
their hearts that In this critical period
Of the nations history they should he
devoting their energies to t1ze actual
war needs Of their sountry. BY ~
rolling in the United States p.iblic re-.
serve they enjoy happier 0soscience.
for they know that they have thereby
declared their patriotism and that the
moment war indusry needs men ~
their type they will be giv-a q chance
to serve the country witiost seaving