The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1918-08-01
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boards. Federal employment offices
are now in operation in Indiana at the
following places:
Evansville, 800 Upper second
street; Fort Wayne, Physicians De
fense Building: Indianapolis, 225
and Room 235 Federal Building for
women; Kokomo, City Hall; South
Bend, Court House; Terre Haute, 13
North Sixth street.
The war labor policies board is
composed of representatives Of the
War, Navy, Labor and Agricultural
Departments, the war industries
board, the shipping board, the emer-
gency fleet corporation and the food,
fuel and railroad administrations. In
the official bulletin OF the United
States employment service the fol-
lowing paragraph appears concerning
enforcement of the program:
"The program will be enforced pri-
marily by the desire and purpose of
every patriotic citizen to comply with
the announced policies Of the govern
ment in the war emergency, ultimately
by the full force of every government
al department represented on the war
labor policies board"
Employers engaged in non-war
work are required to refrain from Of
fering superior inducements or in any
way competing with, or endeavoring
to get labor from, the government or
employers engaged in war work. They
should advertise for labor only under
supervision and control by the local
representative of the United States
Employment Service.
Farms and Roads Protected.
The caution is emphasized that en-
ployers shall not recruit for war work
from farms and railroads. Manufac-
turers are to fill out blanks to be sent
to the government employment oHl-
cials stating their needs and weekly
reports of conditions are required
Transfers of men to meet needs OF
communities will be done as expedl-
tiously as possible, and a revolving
fund" has been established to pay for
transportation of workers from the
point of over supply to the place
where a shortage exists.
In defining the rights of employers
and employees the bulletin employs a
covers different angles of possible sit
uations Employers are not restricted
in the choice of men recruiting for
them. and applicants without cards
from the employment service can be
hired if they do not appear to be en-
gagged in other war work. Where less
than 100 men are employed the pro-
visions of the program do not apply.
Workers are under no compulsion to
enter war work. Men will not be
sent to plants where a strike is In
progress with a view of helping either
side to the controversy, and there will
be no "blacklist' established by the
government. A man can change en-
ployment without consent of the EN-
ployment Service but is urged to get
such permit.
Ultimately, skilled workers will be
included in the program and prelim-
mary to it's extension to them agents
Of the government are instructed to
comb" the country to list every avail
able man who comes under that classi-
fication.
War Work Defined.
The bulletin thus defines war work:
"The manufacturer of products or
erection of structures directly or In
directly supplied to some department
Of the government for use in connec-
tion with the war. Indirectly sup
Piled includes goods delivered under
subcontracts to government contract
ors. Railroads and farms are engaged |
in war work to the extent that under |
this program they are to be protected |
from all recruiting by other industries. |
For the purposes Of this program,
the making Of products which ulti- |