The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-31
UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE

T AXES EFFECT tomorrow another of those great plans for national solidarity. The methods which have been applied to the distribution of materials will applied to the distribution of labor employed in industries and ultimate ly to labor employed in all industries
 The United States will be the sole agency for the distr button of unsked labor It will operate through the local branch of the employment service Presently other labor will be taken
 purpose service is to check the waste of labor the constant shifting from plant to another as the several plants compete for help.
 From tomorrow morning onward, goods manufacur- CT desiring employ unled abor will inform the local vice. Labor desiring employment will apply at the local ser vice.
 The publication of advertisements recruiting labor, espe cally in other towns, will be deemed unpatriotic.
 For the present industries not in work may employ if they do not engage in unfair competition and industries with than hundred hands may employ independently There will be objection to hiring at the gate provided no induce ments offered
 There are other exceptions but the field is pretty general y controlled and the service gains in experience and eff ciency conroll will be extended.
 The mobilization of labor and will be much aid ed by this change is based in part the experience of Great Britain which, the first year of the war; greatly mpeded in it's industry by the competition for labor be- tween plant and another.
 Theoretically competition for labor increased the stipend of labor but the decrease productivity great that
 amount of stipend compensated for the loss of production and the lowered standard of living of consequence that obtained wages if everything they bought cost in greater proporon and things coming to the bad pass when amount of would care for the necessities Of the nation because people cannot what is not produced
 country is at any time whole. It ought to be operated at any time ntelgenty single factory plant would be operated that is, there should be coordination of part with another with production of needed commodities need ed and in the quantities needed. This implies intelligent of plants materials and labor. Intelligent implies ing eye a central authority. Such central authority exists in the Federal aone and be exercised only by the Federal government.
 The mark of modern civilization is knowledge provision, pre-arrangemen the of and things ntellgeny, in the best relationships to the result
 Things do arrange themselves in the best by cden but only by understanding which sees knows and Any industrial army each element of which go its way haphazard little effective than military army would be left ndreced its several units ing each as it happened to do.
 What is true of single factory is true of nation. The best and most effective which will waste the least life and which will best supply the civil and military needs must proceed from raonay administered production in which private initiative deals with the things within it's reach and the centralized national initiative with things to the whole of industrial effort, to large sections of it.