Williams news., 1918-01-10
LABOR NEEDED
 FOR WAR WORK
United States Public Service Re- serve Being Inaugurated by
 the Government.
PRODUCTION TO BE SPEEDED
Skilled and SemiskiIIed Men Not Now Engaged in Producing War Ma teriaI to Be Enlisted in the
 Public Service.

Washington.-A United States pub lie service reserve is being inaugu- rated by the department of labor in an effort to get men for work in the shipyards. The department is work ing in cooperation with the shipping board and William Edwin Hall is di- recting the work. State directors are being appointed and local organiza- tions are being perfected in every state.
 'The primary object of this cam paign," said MT. Hall, 'is to obtain large list of skilled and semi-skilled men who are not now producing war material or doing work useful to the prosecution of the war, and to get them into the shipyards and the fac tories which must be maintained at the highest speed if industry is to meet the unsuitable demands of a large army at the front.
 "1t appears from published reports, such as the arrival of the Rainbow Di vision in France, that the number of American troops at or near the firing line is constantly increasing, and we civilians whom these troops have gone
  fully derelict in our national duty and quite wanting in patriotism if we did not make every personal sacrifice to keep our soldiers 100 per cent SUD- piled.
 Labor Needed in War Work.
 GA number of the non-essentia1 in- dustries are employing labor which is urgently needed for war work-in the shipyards, for example. One is sur prised to see how many kinds of work CTS are needed to build ship. The shipping board has prepared for the public service reserve a list of SS diff ferent ''peace'' occupations from which men must absolutely must-be drawn in order that our tremendous shipbuild- ing can be carried out in time. You often hear it said that ships will win the war but today it is being put in a little different way by those who know the situation: A failure on the part of American civilians to build the nee essary number of ships will make it impossible for the United States to continue to fight. A lack of ships may lose the war;
 "The United States public service reserve explained MT. Hall, ''is work ing at high speed today to obtain all these men needed for shipbuilding, for making equipment for gun manufac- turing, for mechanical draughting, for hundreds of other vital operations, from the 'non-essential industries that is, from industries which are i'm portant to a country at peace but, in the final analysis, virtually unneces- Sary to country at war.
 "Our effort is always to obtain the workers for war industry without crippling the peace industry. We will not draw away an over-production of ployer. War means suffering. A con- any one industry, from any one en- pjlOyer. War means suffering. A con- siderable disturbance of industry is inevitable. The public service reserve proposes to bring about the necessary shifting of labor with just as little dis turbance as possible. We want no in dustry and no employer to have to bear any more than a fair, legitimate share of the burden which the per emptory demands of war throw upon all of us."
 Differs From Army Enlistment.
 Men who enroll in the United States public service reserve state their trade and suggest other classes of work they could do, if necessary, for the war. The enrolled men will re- main at their present jobs and when they are notified that an opportunity to put them into war work has arisen, they are under no obligation to accept the new jobs unless, satisfied with wages and conditions. Thus their en- rollment in the reserve differs from en- listment in the army, where the soldier has no choice but to obey.
 livery day more and more Ameri- can workers are beginning to feel in their hearts that in this critical period of the nations history they should be devoting their energies to the actual war needs of their country. By en- rolling in the United States public re- serve they enjoy a happier conscience, for they know that they have thereby declared their patriotism and that the moment a war ,indusry needs men of their type they will be given a chance to serve the country without leaving civilian life"