Bisbee daily review., 1918-10-06

sized that our country is facing a most serious situation with regard to labor supply.
 As you know, our whole war pro gram has been moved ahead. Adequate measures are being taken to place an enormous army in France early next year. This means that the industrial program required to supply and equip it must be hurried at a pace which today seems well high impossible.
 The war department has projected an enormous program; apparently reckless of the fact that there is not enough labor available to carry it out; in reality relying on the twill of the American people to drop everything else and put it through.
 At this moment this program is se- riously retarded for lack of man power in war industry.
 If we can have shells enough in France next year, we can blast path to Berlin. To the extent that we fall behind in the supply of material we shall have to make up the deficit from the living bodies of our young men. This is not rhetoric. It is cold, precise, military calculation.
 As soon as the facts are realized, Americans are going to cease carry ing on business as usual' and swarm into war work; making possible that which now seems impossible.
 One of the fundamental processes which is going to save our war pro gram will be the introduction of wO- men into some phase of war work, and the use of women in nOn-war work so as to enable men to go into war work.
 This process can not begin too soon.
 On the other hand, to carry out such shift too impetuously, without prop CT direction and control would result in great harm If men are released too quickly they will suffer from un- employment while they are finding their new positions. If women go into industry too rapidly they will suffer from undertaking jobs for which they are not fit, or from labor. ing under conditions which are not fit | for women.
 To stimulate. and at the same time supervise and steady these movements of labor into war industry and of wo men into non-war industry, is enc Oi the chief duties of the community | labor boards.
 The immediate procedure is to be as | follows:
 From the federal director for youI state you will soon receive, if they are not already at hand, instructions to add two women to your number il accordance with general order BIS, tc act with you on questions concerning the use of women in industry.
 Subject to instructions from the federal director for your state you should then proceed to study the in | dustries in your community with 8 view to determining those in which women can be used in war work and in what nOE-war industries womeT | should replace men so that such meT may go into war work. | All your decisions with relation tC | the use of women in industry should | be in accordance with the resolution. of the war labor policies beard, out lined in the inclosed leaflet entitled ! W OlalGA III AAiuuntAg DGi NlNN-
 When you have determined upon { list of industries in which wouer shall be used, it should be submitted for approval to the federal director and advisory board in your state. Ad ditional lists may be required iron time to time.
 As such lists are made and approved you should give them widespread loca publicity.
 In face of such publicity employer in non-war industry will hesitate t' use men where you have indicate, that they should use women. Men wh' are working. al, what board such a yours shall determine to be a wOman1 job during war times, will of thei own accord be prompted to take ul other work
 It will be the task of the U. s. em ployment service to place women il positions where you determine the should be at work. In performing thi task the federal director for your stat will, doubtless, require pour active co operation and assistance.
 U. A. Smyth,
 Assistant Director Genera