Arizona republican., 1918-08-13

ton irrespective of the labor needs of essential industries.
 Purpose
 In time of war all the labor re- sources of the country must contribute to the common supply for the benefit of all war industries. There must, in other words, be a concerted national effort to secure all the men needed for war work. Such nauonal effort can only be effective under government control. If price fixing itself is doubtful economic procedure, surely it is evident that price fixing and regula- tion of the products of labor without any direction of labor itself is an eco- homie inconsistency.
 General Features
 Beginning August l, no employer engaged in war work and employing 100 men or more, may secure labor eX- cept through the government agencies The only exceptions are railroads and farms. Even those engaged only par tially in war work come under certain restrictions. The term war work is given very broad interpretation by the government
 Those engaged in non-war work are required to refrain from offering su-
 
 competing for labor with either the government or those engaged in war work.
 There are many other specific re- strictions I cannot take the time to define now.
 The Machinery
 The entire labor program is under the federal department of labor assist ed by the war labor policies board. This board is composed of represent atives of the war, navy, labor and agricultural department, the war in- dustries board. the shipping board and the Emergency Fleet corporation and the food, fuel and railroad administra- tions.
 While the system is centralized in the department of labor at Washing ton, yet it is the governments pur- pose to decentralize it to the extent of making each state and even each con- munity initially responsible for the solution of it's labor problems.
 A state director of labor has been chosen by the department for each state. Federal free employment agen- cies have been established throughout the country. Community and st>te boards have been appointed to func- tion with the state director and the employment agencies.
 State and Community Boards
 In Arizona, the state director is MT Croaff, president of the State Fedora = tion of Labor, MT. Mcbride, manager of the Old Dominion mine, and MT Stapley, merchant and banker of Mesa MT. Croaff is chairman. This board nomintes the examiners and super | int of r. io ,Ie a court of appeal from the decisions o1 the community boards
 The community board of this county is MT. Peterson, of our county commis- sioners, MT. Moore, president of tho Trades Council and myself This loca board is charged with the efficient ad- ministration of the employment Serv- ice of this district. It will distribute labor skilled and unskilled, classify labor assist in the standardization Q wages, fix conditions of work, settlt disputes and generally assume the re responsibilities which are not assigned in individual concerns, to proprietor! 1 or employment managers. In short | the community boards will become tn, general employment managers for tn collective industries of their districts as well as becoming the Iocal labor ad ministration.
 I am your representative on tha 1 board-you are called here to select standing committee representing al the industries of the valley; a commit tee to which l can report and iron which 1 can secure guidance: q com mittee whose decisions will be accept cd by the industrial interests of thi valley as final.
 General Considerations i In this government activity lies great opportunity and great hazard It is time for clear thought. wei considered action and patriotic sacri flee by both labor and management Unless both interests will act in coop eraticn, industrial chaos will appear That is no mere set phrase, I carnestl,