The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-05-17
BETTER LABOR CONDITIONS
Headquarters to BE at Mayors office
In City Hall - Employment Bureau
VIII Be Opened for Proper Divis-
ion of the Labor of the County.

With program providing for the
conservation of the resources of the
county and the proper division of labor
with a view to conservation, the Ke-
csha COUNT Council of Defense was
formally organized at a meeting held
at the Cour1 House on Saturday after
noon. Nineteen of the twenty mem
bers named by the chairman of the
County Board and Mayor of the city
were present at the meeting and or
garization was completed with the cleo
tion Of Mayor Charles III. Pfennig as
permanent chairman, Alderman E. J.
Sullivan as vice chairman and Joseph
N. Funck as treasurer. Tt was decided
that regular paid secretary should be
employed and committee was named
tc make provision for the selection of
the secretary. The question of naming
the executive committee and other COM
mittees was left in the hands of
Chairman Pfennig, who will name his
committees within few days. The
permanent headquarters of the Council
Of Defense will be at the office of the
Mayor in the city hall, and within a
few days active work will be directed
from this office. County Agricultural
agent Griffith Richards was named to
have charge of the organization of the
forces of the council in the rural dis
trict and he will have an office at
TIE city hall and be in active touch
with the work at all times. Chester D.
Barnes war named to draw the consti-
tuition and bylaws for the county or
9anization end this will be reported
back at a meeting to be called by the
Chairman within the next few days.
The meeting was an enthusiastic one
and showed that the men and women of
Kenosha county are in close touch with
big war movements.
Chester z Barnes who is one of the
active workers in the Wisconsin State
Council Of Nefense, gave an interesting
address in which he outlined the legis-
Lotion which had been taken to give
proper legal standing to the county
councils and in which he explained that
the expense of thorough organization
might be provided for by a small APP
preparation on the part Of the County
Board. Chairman John p Spartz of
the County Board, declared that he felt
certain that the board, at its next reg
rlar meeting, would make the appro-
priation necessary to take care of the
work Of the council.
Mr. Barnes explained at length the
steps which were beirg taken by the
State Council of Defense working with
the Industrial Commission to provide
for the enlistment of an army of work
men to till the lands of the state which
might otherwise remain idle He told
of a census of workmen, which was
being taken throughout the state and
which will be taken in Kenosha within
the next few days. In this census ev-
cry workman will be listed in a card
system and he will be allowed to vol
unteer his services to aid in producing
food stuffs. He told of the interesting
movement that is under way to form
boys camps in various parts of the
state with the understanding that the
labor of the boys will be recruited for
food production with the agreement
that the boys will not be over worked
and that the camp will be handled so
as to make the work decidedly attrac-
tive for the boys Mr.. Barnes declared
that the biggest problem to be worked
cut by the Kenosha County Council of
Defense would be to provide proper
division of labor so that men could be
available t. keep the farms producing
This part of the work will be espe-
cially under the direction of Mr.. Rich
ards and as soon as he moves to the
Mavor's office this will be converted
into an emergency clearing house for
labor with view of finding all un-
caployed men and getting them into
touch with men on the farms IN need
"a adDOF,
AR. Barnes explained that there
would be no idea of Gripping the bus
mess Of great industrial plants visa a
view of furnishing men to the farms
but that the farm and factory woald
work together with view of keeping
both in operation in the best possible
qRner and with view of division of
aDor which would keep every man
rho wants to work at work.
There is no idea Of industrial draft =
the program of the county council.
Is question of having men of pa
lotto mind volunteer to make possible
proper division of labor so that all
,atures Of production NAV be CON