Arizona republican., 1918-01-16
WILSON APPOINTS
 COMMISSION FOR
 WARLABOR WORK
Six Men and Woman Are to Aid Secretary of Labor i'll Vital Task; Miners Pledge
 Government Their Help
TRepubIican A. F. Leasei Wlrej


 WASHINGTON. Jan. 15.-Six men and one woman were named by Secre- tary Wilson tonight to form the advis- ory council that will assist in the ad- ministration of a war labor program entrusted to the department of labor by the president.
 John Lind, former governor of Min nesota, is chairman of the council, and representative of the public and the other members are:
 Representatives of employers: Nad- dill Catchings. president of the Sloss- Sheffield Steel and Iron company, Birmingham. Ala, and of the Platt Iron Works, Dayton, Ohio Chairman of the war committee of the chamber of com merce of the United States), and A. A. Landon. general manager of the Amer ican Radiator company, (vice president of the aircraft production board and president of the Buffalo, New York chamber of commerce.)
 Representatives of employees: John B. Lennon of Illinois. former treasurer of the Ameican Federation of Labor. and John J. Casey, of Pennsylvania, former member of congress.
 Economist: Dr. L. C. Marshall of the University of Chicago.
 Representative of Women: Agnes Nestor of Chicago, president of the Woman's Trade Union League member of the defense councils woman's com mittee and former president of the Glove Workers Union.
 In a statement announcing the ap- pointments, Secretary Wilson said: The popular demand for a national | labor administrator was in effect granted today when Secretary of La | bor Wilson assumed the administration | of a comprehensive war labor program and appointed a national labor board of six men and one woman to be known | as the advisory council, to assist him. Secretary Wilson's Statement l This IS in accordance with the re- cent action of the council of national defense, with the approval of the pres ident, in placing in the hands of the secretary of labor the formulation and | execution of a war labor administra- | tion. It gives to the department of la Dor full power to deal with every phase of the war labor proslem, including the distribution, transportation, housing and training of workers, and effects that centralization and unification that has been sought by the government, labor. capital and the public. unity of action between the var J ious departments is assured by the in
 tention of Secretary Wilson to later in-
 crease t0e council by the appointment
 of representatives from the war, navy
 and agriculture departments and ship ping board.
 The labor administrator and his ad
 vlsory council will at once take in hand the questions of standardiZat ton of la
 Dor policies: the providing, distributing l and maintaining of a stable and ade.
 quate supply of workers; labor dilutior and training, priority demands, the ad. . Justment of disputes and the safe guarding of employment, living ant housing conditions. The advisory coun.
 Gil will study all phases of the prob.
 lem, make recommendations and plan: 9 for additional machinery and supervis,
 their execution
 The United States employment ser.
 wee, now separate bureau, is alread, ) being expended to take care of the tasl : Of economic distribution of workers" Employers and workers alike wer, called on today by the employment ser vice for aid in recruiting industria workers to back up the fighting men. was estimated that for every soldier or
 the firing line, six civilians are needed to supply him with food and nuni tlons. two of them behind the lines i, | France and four at home. Within the next six months.'' in n service announced we must furnisl n approximately 1,000,000 workers for az e rlculture. nearly 100000 for shin build 6 ing, 100000 to man the ships, 250 OO Tor transportation and 25O, 900 for th l, (Continued on Page Sevenl