Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-08

Labor IN it's effort to provide the fac
tories and mills engaged upon govern
ment orders with adequate supply
Of women trained in the required occu-
pations This service Is rendered
through the supporting state organiza-
tions.
The members of such supporting or
CARNATIONS will serve the country in
the capacity for which they are best
fitted by experience and environment.
Though they may not be able to serve
as weavers, spinners or stitchers. etc,
they will conserve the. interests OF the
country as effectively by seeing to 1t
that the women and girls who have
had training In thehe occupations. and
are therefore able to go to the indus
trial 'front.'" can do SO with minimum
of sacrifice for Themselves and their
families.
In other words, the unmarried women
and tho women without binding home
ties are asked to go to the front lines
Of industry for a few weeks. months or
longer. II later more trained help is
required. the women with families
may be asked to make 1t their patriotic
duty to serve the country in this man
ner. In this case the. women who are
not trained to meet the industrial de-
mands, and who must therefore re-
main behind the industrial lines. will
care for the children and the other
dependents of the women who have
the mills and the factories. This will
be accomplished by day nurseries am
ply equipped. by industrial canteens.
where meals can be served to the men I.
and other members of the families
who would otherwise be unprovided for
because OF absence from home of the
women who are called on for emer-
gency service in industry.
h,tof nj hio h1frn {C n a
that none of the orders which the army
and navy are placing for the war are
held up for lack of trained woman
labor" said Miss obenauer. secretary
Quoting the work is to secure the nee
essary woman labor with the maxi
mum of speed and minimum of human
waste or needless sacrifice on the part
Through the Department of Labor
we get the contracts as they are let
We sort out those which involve wo-
man labor in normal conditions. We
then inquire of the contractors as to
the status of the woman labor supply
in their establishments. and II addi-
tional woman labor is required we set
about getting it. It is our object not
lions in industry. recruiting woman
labor in such way as to guard
against taking 1t away from other es-
tabshments working on Tar orders
furnishing products essential to the
daily life Of the civilian population.
I'VE are also avoiding the drafting
into industry women with small chill
dren until the national emergency be-
comes so great that the administration
itself says such drain upon the vi
tally OF our home life is a necessary
sacrifice in the interest OF national de-
tense. We are endeavoring to carry on
our work without needlessly entering
into competition with commercial en-
ploymsnt bureaus by recruiting labor
for firms engaged in other than war
orders.
I'm order that there may be no delays
of orders Of war supplies through
waste of time and effort. the bureau
has made a careful survey OF the
woman-employtng industries in the
various Industrial centers, with par
ticular reference to such as have been
stimulated by orders for the allies
during the past two and a half years.
By the ruling of the Secretary of Labor.
the establishments working on orders
from the allies are now given the same
service as those working on our own
government contracts.
Although Official information a. to
the needs Of the United States Army
and Navy has been available for only
a few weeks, we have placed about two
thousand women In government es-