Mohave County miner., 1918-02-23
J. $. GOVERNMENT
 WANTS WORKERS
Have you enrolled in the draft?

Have you enrolled in the draft? No; what is it?
 This is question, and the response given by 90 per cent of those asked.
 Yet our government has sent out millions of circulars telling about its crucial need of workingmen.
 Some months ago it asked for mill tary volunteers. Response was too slow for effectiveness. We were at war and it had to have soldiers. It took them by draft. Today our gov ernment tells us it takes five men in peaceful industry to sustain one soldier at the front. We are at war.
 In fielder sent out by the govern ment 1t is plainly stated: Terms of employment are made fair and reason ably attractive. If its plans (of re- serve enrollment) succeed, no form of compulsion will be necessary. And the war labor problem will be solved with the least disturbance to existing industry.
 Every enroller, when called, is told all about the job, the wages and terms. He is still free to take or leave it, as he likes. And if he undertakes the work he is still free to leave it, at will.
 What this plainly tells me is that the government will exhaust every ef- fort to get it's needed employees through volunteering, grant good wages and working conditions, and &C., cord every privilege of civil rights to enrollers-including the right to re- fuse work offered or to quit it after accepted. But we are at war and it tells me, also, that failing by suave means it will resort to drafting labor.
 Under the volunteer system thou sands upon thousands of unemployed or dissatisfied men throughout the United States in communities that can spare them will be given work op- tional with themselves. Al benefit to all.
 Under the draft men will be taken by lot. And many from employment which communities can ill afford to lose. Existing industry will be dis turbed. A detriment to all.
 What a draft means to business is a illustration to existing industry.
 What a draft means to labor is service without consulting the labor CTS desires as to terms, conditions or location of employment.
 What the government wants is the name, address and occupation of ev- cry man who can serve it, so it can be prepared from time to time to man its ever-increasing new burdens and industries systematically and timely.
 Two hundred and fifty thousand are immediately needed for ship building, an equal number in the navy and as many more in munition plants and other work.
 All men, common labOrers as well as skilled, are requested to enroll.
 Who is interested in the enrolment? You, if a business man, from busi- ness point of view to stabilize indus try now. You, if out of work because work is offered. But above all you, as an American citizen, because de- mocracy is threatened by the despot- ism at war with America.
 It is in your interest to assist, and you can assist actively in the drive for the enrolment of 25O,O00 members for the federal service of the reserve be- ing made this week. There is no ex- cuse for diffidence. It must be realized that the sooner America is able to CO., ordinate it's departments essential to prosecute the war with full working force, system and precision and strike with sustained and united effort the earlier will America return to pursuits of happiness. There is no excuse for ignorance. Interview any supervisor, any member of the counicl of defense pr any union secretary.
 PAUL E. WHITE,
 Member of the Council of Defense.