The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-01-09
Tremendous Expansion of Employ
ment Service in Progress in
Preparation for Recruiting
DENsMORE TO BE DIRECTOR
10 Organize Workers for Agriculture,
Government Shipbuilding and
War Contracts

Il
ment Of Labor
tremendous expansion of the serv-
ice is in progress in preparation for
recruiting men necessary to carry on
the economic work in support of
the military forces in the war. Solu-
ton o. the labor shortage problem by
this means is confidently proposed by
the department and the cooperating
labor organizations in answer to sup-
gestions that conscription of labor is
necessary.
100000 Mechanics
An early result is expected to be the
placing Of 100000 mechanics in shin
building plants to aid IN hurrying to
completion the merchant marine pro-
gram.
John Il. Densmore, Of Montana, So
lictor for the Department of Labor,
will be the national director of the en-
ployment service by appointment of
Secretary Wilson. He will have as his
assistant Robert Watson, of Massa-
chusetts, and Charles r. Clayton, of
Maryland Samuel Gompers, of New
York son Of the labor leader, will
succeed Mr.. Watson as the depart
mcnt's chief clerk.
Organization Plans
Organization plans for the new SER
vice were described in an official
statement, which said
"The United States employment
service has been divorced from the
Bureau of immigration, under whose
control it has been since it's establish
ment, made separate arm Of the de-
partmcnt and one of the largest and
most important war prosecuting or
ganizations of the national govern
ment. -
Through the utilization Of existing
and projected federal, state and mu
nicipal employment offices and the la
Dor supplying facilities of the various
state councils of defense, the federal
employment service will cover the en-
tire continent with network of in
tcrrelated labor exchanges. These will
recruit and transfer workers from
one section to another and eliminate
the present chaotic situation of a
surplus of workers in one region and
shortage in another.
Reserve Forces
"Supplcmenting this labor distribu-
tion work the expanded federal SER
vice will create vast reservoir of la
Dor to meet the increasing demands of
the various war industries by means
OF its two auxiliary bodies, the United
States Public Service and the United
States Boys Working Reserve. The
creation of this labor surplus already
is under way.
The public service reserve is ex-
pected by the Department of Labor
and the heads of organized labor to
solve the labor shortage problems and
to prove conscription Of labor to be
unnecessary. The executive commit
tees of many of the largest interna
tional unions are cooperating with the
reserves heads in the enrolment of
their members and their voluntary
acceptance Of war jobs.
Satisfactory to All
"The making of the United States
Employment Service the instrument
for the handling Of the national labor
question meets with the approval of
both employers and employees. Since
the entrance of the United States in
to the war the American Federation
Of Labor, representing the workers,
and the Chamber of Commerce Of the
United States, speaking for employ
ers and business generally, both have
sought the action announced today"