The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-13
U. s. LOYMENT SERVICE NOT ID
 BE ABOLISHED This Branch of Service to Be Continued Two or Three
 Years, Is Belief
HIGHLY IMPORTANT
 CONSTRUCTION TASK
Service Faces Job of Facilitating Re- Entry of Workers and Soldiers Into Normal Indus
 trial Life


 it is stated from official sources. will
 not be abolished, at least for two or
 three years. It is understood that this
 branch of the governments war service
 will be continued until agricultural, in-
 dustrial and labor conditions are read
 justed to peace time conditions.
 This question was discussed at
 luncheon at the Southern club yesterday,
 attended by State Director George B.
 ment service, l. F. Young, E. J. Rowe
 and Mir. Francis, members of the com
 munity labor board, and examiners con-
 nected with the local office of the em-
 ployment service. At the luncheon Mir
 Tarrant read the following telegram from the director general of the United
 States employment service:
 Today employment service faces
 new and highly important construc-
 ton task of facilitating re-entry or
 workers and soldiers into normal in dustrial life. You save served our
 country well in time of war. A greater service lies ahead of you"
 Commenting on the telegram and the situation now confronting the country. MT. Tarrant said:
 FACE LARGE TASK Tt will be the purpose of the United States employment service in this state to do everything possible to place all of our poys into industrial life upon their return to this country. This Will be, without doubt, the largest task the service has yet undertaken.
 Not only will we be required to as sist soldiers in their re-entry into the industrial life of the country, but the thousands of men who left their former occupations to work in plants making war materials, which will soon be closed, or converted into other lines, must be taken care Of
 ''Laborers for the farms will be needed by the thousands During the time the United States was in the war men nave left the farms by the scores and nun dreds seeking work at essential indus trial plants at high wages. This has caused a serious shortage in farm labor and as the United States must furnish the bulk of the food stuffs for her al
 lies for the next year or two, at least this shortage must be overcome, and the United tSates employment service IS the only agency prepared to take care or the situation. Therefore, especial attention will be given to farm help during the winter and spring months.
 FARM LABOR
 R. E. Samuels, examiner in charge or farm labor at the local office of the United States employment servlce' stated that a great many men who had left the farms during the last year or two because of the higher wages or fered at industrial plants, nave made application through his office for work on the farms. Some of these are married
 men who want to return to the farms. Others have tired of the ceaseless strug- gle to earn a livelihood in the cities anu desire to try their hand at farm work
 MT. Samuels suggests that farmers
 wanting help, or owners of small farms for sale or rent, should list thelr wants with him. There is no charge Tor these
 services and by cooperating with tne
 employment agencies large acreage will
 we put under cultivation that otherWise would lie idle another year.
 MT. Tarrant stated yesterday that the industrial establishments in the Bir-
 mingham district making essential proo- nets needed 7500 more men than they now
 have, and that the shortage in the state
 is 21 900. Part of the state shortage IS at
 Sheffield, where the government IS puilo-
 ing nitrate plant, the second one there.
 The fact that work on dam No. al
 Muscle Shoals is to be resumed at once'
 and that several thousand men will pc
 required in it's construction, was men
 toned by Mr. Tarrant He said that the United States employment agencies over the state would be called upon 10 racr,,it labor for these enterprises and urred the community labor board to make an allotment for them. The poaro' after considerable discussion, Tn Whlcn the local needs were fully consioereo' agreed to allot an equitable share or the labor recruited in Birmins nain 'o .As Sheffield enterprises.
 SATISFACTION AMONG LABOR There is no movement yet discernaoie among the laboring people m the Dii mingham district to quit their preSen. employment in what have come 10 pc knnwn as essential industries, and re- i turn to their former jobs, or to positions similar to those held by them prior 10 engaging in the war work. It IS ex- pected, however, that a disposition VIII soon be manifested among at least good portion of the laboring people to secure work in industries that Will pc permanent after peace is declared ana hte United States withdraws it's financial support from the concerns that made war materials.
 Fortunately for Birmingham. however, there are very few establishments in this district that can be classed as strictly war industries. The few concerns that were assisted financially by the govern ment either increased their facilities along the lines in which they were al- ready engaged, or made additions or ex- tensions sthat can De continued as they nou exist. or be easily converted for the manufacture of articles entering into every day commerce.
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