The Pulaskian., 1918-12-27
Returning Army to Civil Life Brings Problems Unlike
 Those in U. s.
WORKSHOPS ARE WIPED OUT
Labor Readlustment Is Subject of Greater Importance in France Than in Any Other Bell
 Iigerent Country.

Rehabilitation looms as the biggest after-the-war question in France.
 A committee of members of the French chamber of deputies has off cially asked the government what steps toward labor reconstruction are to be taken.
 Appointment of a commission to study the question has just been an nounced.
 Labor readjustment is a subject of greater importance in France than in any other belligerent country-out of Belgium, perhaps because so many factories and commercial enterprises have been destroyed by the war.
 Workshops Are Wiped Out
 When the soldiers are demobilized a great number will not be able to. return to the work in which they were engaged before the war. Their work shops have been wiped out.
 Many others who have been em- ployed on war work in munitions plants will be thrown out of employ ment. For such concerns will have to shut down while they adapt them selves, many of them slowly, to peace-time line of manufacture.
 Another class of men, who have been away at the front four. years, will finS no places open because they have been replaced by other labor women, in numerous cases.
 The government faces the problems of having more men on it's hands than it has jobs. A quick solution is i'm perative. according to the view of prominent labor leaders.
 Every other country except France has thought about this natter said Emmanuel Brousse, a French deputy and member of the newly appointed labor adjustment commission. : Britain has been working on the labor question for long time. Twen- ty-five commissions composed of spe- cialists in various lines have prepared a solution.
 "Germany had its after-war program definitely mapped out. First the men who in civil life were engaged in such occupations as technical, commercial, industrial, financial and transport were to be freed from army service. Other kinds of workmen were to be demobilized successively.
 France must not lose a moment in mapping out it's labor readjustment plan. Otherwise there will be social catastrophe"
 Labor leaders in France point also to the preparations in America for distributing farming land to demobil. ized soldiers. But they remark that this method of finding something for the ex-soldier to do is closed to the French.
 Land Cultivated IntensiveIy.
 France has no vast unoccupied lands as the United States has, except in it's northern African colonies. All of France is cultivated intensively, leav- ing none for reclamation by demobil- ized soldiers. And it is calculated that few will want to leave their own country for the purpose of coloniza- ton.
 G. Ii. hODeTtS, bfltlSn IululSteT Ol labor, recently discussed this subject before an audience of British soldiers at the British Army and Navy Leave club in Paris.
 The British minis SoN oy %Nmporar- fly unemployment difov demo- bilized soldiers wouIeY bE'sTss by a free out-of-work donation c0Ns> a period of 12 months after discE$2sSe This will be additional to the mon $ furlough given each man on his dis charge, during which time pay and al lowances are to be continued.
 The skilled workman among British soldiers, Roberts said, is safeguarded by the munitions of war act, giving him the assurance of reinstatement in employment. Committees. he said, would establish employment agencies in all cities and everything possible would be done to make labor resettle- ment as speedy and smooth as possi- ble.