Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-30
EMPLOYMENT OF COMMON LABOR
 HAS NEW RULE
Mayor Erickson Notified of Manner in Which New Rul- ing Operates and Asked to Inform People

tOllOWlng receipt or lelleT IOHl the department of labor at Washing ton, D. C., relative to employment of labor and the rights of employers as we'll as laboring men, under the new rules that have been promulgated Mayor Jacob Erickson is anxious that the public should read the letter, in order that everyone might know the rules.
 The letter has been reinforced by a bulletin along similar lines received by R. J. Wilbur, local agent for the state labor administration
 The letter says:
 July 2S, 1918. His Honor the Mayor,
 Bisbee, Ariz.
 Dear Sir:
 We beg to direct your attention to the plans of the U. S. Employment Service, and to the great effect which this program will have upon the indus trial life of the Nation.
 On August l, the supplying of war industries with common labor will be centralized in the U s. Employment Service of the Department of Labor. and all independent recruiting of com mon labor 0y manufacturers having a payroll of more than 100 men will be diverted to the U. s. Employment Ser vice. This is in accordance with the decision of the War; Labor Policies Board and approved blythe President on June IT. (The War Labor Poli- cies Board is composed of representa- tives of the War, Navy, and Agricul- tural Departments, the Shipping Board and the Emergency Fleet Corporation, the War Industries Board, and the Food, Fuel, and Railroad Administra- -tions. Its chairman is Felix Frank furter, Assistant to the Secretary of , Labor.)
 The above action was found neces- .sary to, overcome a perilous shortage |. of unskilled labor in war. industries. This shortage was aggravated by an almost universal practice of labof . stealing and poaching. While the restrictions against the private employment of labor appIy |. only to common labor at the present time, these restrictions will, as soon as possible, be extended to include skilled labor. In the meantime, recruit ing Oi skilled labor for war production . will be subjected to federal regulations snow being prepared.
 This drastic change in the Nations , labor program has been found neces- sary in order to protect the employer and the employed, to conserve the la-l Dor supply of the communities and 10 cut down unnecessary and expensive labor turnover (which, in some cases, is as high as 100 per cent a week., and to increase the production of es- sentials.
 While non-essential industries will be drawn upon to supply the necessary labor for war work, the withdrawal will be conducted on an equitable basis in order to protect the individual employer as much as possible.
 Under the operating methods adopt | ed, the country has been divided into thirteen federal districts, each district in charge of a superintendent of the U. S. Employment Service. The States within each district are in turn in charge of a State Director, who has full control of the service within his | State.
 In each community there Is being | formed local community labor board, | consisting of a representative of the | U. s. Employment Service, a represen- tative of employers and a reprensen- | tive of the employed. This board will | have jurisdiction over recruiting and | distributing labor in its locality.
 A survey of the labor requirements | is being made, and in order that each | community may be fully protected, | rulings have been issued that no labor shall be transported out of any com | munity by the U. S. Employment Ser i vice without the approval of the State | Director; nor shall any labor be re- moved by the Service from one state | To another without the approval of the | U. s. Employment Service at Washing ton. Every effort will be made to dis courage any movements from commun- ity to community or state to state by | any other service.
 This labor program has the approval of all producing Departments of the Government, through the War Labor Policies Board.
 It must be understood that farm la bor will be protected, for the indus trial program distinctly. includes spe- cial efforts to keep the farmer sup | piled with labor
 The requirement. that unshlled labor must be recruited through the sole agency of the U. s. Employment ] Service does not at present apply in the following five cases:
 l. Labor which is not directly or
 indirectly solicited.
 2. Labor for the railroads.
 5. Farm labOr-tO be recruited in
 accordance with existing ar q
 rangement with Department of
 Agriculture.
 i. Labor for nOn-war work - D. Labor for establishments : - whose maximum force does
 not exceed one hundred.
 When the survey of labor require ments has been made and the aggre- gate demand for unskilled latof in war work is found. each State will be assigned a quota. representing the common labor to be drawn from men engaged in nOn-essentia1I frdfruf ffar nj Haf Crfafa