St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1918-07-27

ductien will be subject to federal
regulations now being prepared.
This drastic change in the Ma
tons labor program has beer found
necessary in order to protect the en-
ployer and the employed, to conserve
the labor supply of the communities
and to cut down unnecessary and ex-
pensive labor turnover (which, in
some case, is as high as 100 per cent
week., and to increase the proGuc-
ton Of essentials.
While non-essential Industries will
he drawn upon to supply the neces-
sary labor for war work, We with
lrawal will be conducted Oh an
| acuita BILE basis in order to protect
| he individual employer as much as
| possible.
Under the operating methods
opted, the country has been divid-
Cd into thirteen federal districts,
each district in charge Of a superin-
tendent of the U. $. Employment
| Service The State within each dis
! trict 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 a local community labor
board, consisting of representative
Of the U. S. Employment Service.
| representative of employers and
| representative of the employed. This
board will have jurisdiction over re-
cruiting and distributing labor in its
| locality
A survey of the labor require
ments is being made, ana in order
that each community may be fully
protected, rulings have been issued
that no labor shall be transported
out of any community by the U. s.
Employment Service without the ap-
prevail of the State Director; nor
shall any labor be removed by the
service from one state to another
without the approval of the U. S.
Employment Service at Washington.
Every-effort will be made to discour
age any movements from community
to community or state by any other
service.
This labor program has the ap-
prevail Of all producing department
of the Government, through the War
Labor Policies Board.
1t must be understood that farm
labor will be protected, for the in
dustrial program distinctly includes
special 'efforts to keep the farmer
supplied with labor.
The requirement that unskilled
labor must be recruited through the
sole agency of the U. S. Employment
Service does not at present apply in
the following five cases:
1. Labor which is not directly or
indirectly solicited.
2. Labor for the railroads.
3. Farm labor-to be recruited
in accordance with existing arrange
ments with Department of Agri-
culture
4. Labor for non-war Work.
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maximum force does not exceed one
hundred.
ments has been made and the ag-
gregate demand for unskilled labor
in war work is found, each State will
be assigned quota, representing the
common labor to be drawn from
among men engaged in non-essential
industries in that State.
These state quotas will in turn be
distributed among localities. With
in each locality, employers in nom
war work, including those who are
only partially in war work, will be
asked to distribute the local quotas
from time to time amongst them
selves. Quotas by localities and in
diyiduals are to be accepted as readi-
ly as they are for Liberty Loan and
Red Cross campaigns. This plan Of
labor quotas is a protection for all
communities.
The object is to keep any COM
munity from being drained of labor,
and to use local supply, as far as
possible, for local demand The sit
uation, however, is such that in GER
tain cases some men may have to be
transported over long distances.