Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-31
MILLION IN FIRST LABOR CALL.
U. S. Rushes Plans to Put Industries Of
Nation Under Sinqle Rule.

Washington, July 31.-I'he United
States employment service is strainins
every force \. its command tonight to
perfect machinery foc taking over the
gigantic task of recruiting all common
labor for the war industries OF the
United States. beginning Thursday,
Aug. l.
After that date no employer engaged
IN war business who employs moro
than 100 workers will be permitted tc
recruit common labor excapt thru the
federal employment service and foI
weeks this government agen:y has reer
making survey of the common labos
needs of the war industries of the coun
try for the next two months
Tonight announcement of this sur
vey Is epected to be made, together
with the quotas of men to be taken
In each state from nonwar industries
to supply requirements of war work
Altho no official announcement has
been made, 1t is probable that the
first call upon the nonwar industrie S
for workers to be transferred to essen
trial industries will approximate a mil l.
lion men.
A month ago United States employ
ment service experts estimated that the
war industries were then short 4O0, 0GN
common laborers. Since that time the
needs Of the essentials have been rs
certained thru careful survey COW
ering the whole country and the first
problem under the new labor control
regime undertaken by the government
probably will be to redistribute about a
million laborers in the various states.
Officials of the war labor policies
board and the United States employ
ment service were confident tonight
that the elaborate system for working
out the problem Of common labor con,
troll will be a success and they homo Va
be able to announce tomorrow the per-
sonnet of many Of the labor community
boards for the larger cities Of the cour-
try.
Upon the local community boards
Will fall the task of distributing the
labor to the war industries in given
localities and these boards also are to
determine in each community what
nonw'ar industries shall make sacrifices
Of workmen.
To make the work Of discrtminat ton
as easy as possible the war labor poli-
cies board. headed by Felix Frandfur-
ter, has defined war work" for the
purpose OF carrying out the new re-
cruiting program to include the fol-
lowing:
Manufacture Of products or erection
OF structures directly or indirectly sup
piled to some department of the gov
eminent for use in connection with the
war ,
indirectly supplied includes goods
delivered under subcontracts to gov
eminent contractors.
For the purpose of this program
the making of PREDICTS which may
ultimately be used for war purposes.
but are not to be delivered either di-
rectly to the government or to some
contractor who uses them in pro-
ducing. or as part of products to be
delivered to the government, is not
considered war work.
Coal mining Is wholly war wark.''
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 ind u.s.
tries" - :
Altho the community labor boards
VIII determine what industries shall
sacrifice laborers for war work, en-
piovers will have the right OF appeal
TO the state director Of the United
States employment service in case the
local boards misjudge the character
OF their business. In case Of doubt
there final decision will be made by,
the war labor policies board at Wash
ington.