Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-09-06
RIGID RULES FROM.
DEFENSE COUNCIL.
COMPEL WAR WORK.
NECESSITY OF ILLINOIS GIVING
ALL ITS ENERGY TO WINNING
THE WAR POINTED OUT IN
STATEMENT TO PUBLIC.

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caption All men must do war work. -
the State Council OF Defense puts out
the following:
The United States Employment
Service is getting down to cases in
finding unskilled labor for essential
war work. Ii has served notice that
employment that is simply personal
service or for personal pleasure, will
not be regarded as war work.
also the employment service
makes an appeal 10 automobile own
ers TO release chauffeurs whenever
possible. and TO consider well before
they buy accessories for their ma
chimes. whether they need the work
required TO produce them as much
as the country needs it to help win
the war.
In an authorized interyiew tele-
graphed the publicity department of
the State Council of Defense from
Washington, Nathan NJ Smyth. as
sistant director general of the Unit
ed States Employment Service. gives
the program and purpose OF that de
partment as follows;
The community labor boards are
charged With the responsibility Of
determining the methods which shall
govern the employment service in at
tempting to recruit for war work men
from industries which are not direct
ly connected with the prosecution of
the war The power to determine
priority among the industries and to
close up non-essential industries by
shutting off supplies rests with the
war industries board
The United States Employment
Service will follow the prioritles de-
termined by the priorities board Of
the war industries board, and the EN-
ployment service through all its
agencies will keep in systematic and
constant cooperation with the other
divisions of the government concern
ed with the manpower and material
program.
" 1t is within the province of each
community labor board TO list those
non-war industries In its community
which will first be called upon to
contribute men to war work.
This does not mean that such
Industries will be compelled to close
up or to discharge their male EN-
plOyes at once, but that with as much
speed as may be necessary to meet
the national emergency they will re.
lease male workers.
We may as well face the facts.
Much work essential to our program
is being seriously retarded by lack
of unskilled latNr In this situa.
ton, it is obviously wrong to have
able-bodied men continuing TO sell
candy. cigars and like articles, to b.
doing work in shops and stores which
might with reasonable effort on the
part Of employers be- entrusted tC
women and to be dancing attendance
in clubs, barber shops soft drink
establishments, bowling alleys, dane
ing academies and elsewhere.
Our war industries are suffer
ing severely for lack of skilled me
chanics 1t therefore becomes a bur
den upon the conscience OF every per
son who employs a chauffeur to de
termlne whether such employment is
necessary or merely for the gratif
cation Of personal pleasure
Moreover every owner of an auto
mobile should realize that every
time he spends five dollars for auto
mobile accessories, supplies or re
pairs, he is in effect determining
whether the working energies OF the
country shall be devoted to winning
the war or to his own personal uses
The time has come when from
the standpoint of conservation of la
Dor, we must all OF us limit our ex
penses to those things which are es
/ sential',"