Republican farmer., 1918-08-09
DIVIDE STATE FOR RECRUITING
 OF WAR LABOR
Recruiting Districts Formed to Have Entire Charge of
 Supplying Labor.

Hartford, Aug. 5-The local ad- nlinistration of the new government labor program has been launched throughout Connecticut by the divi- sion of the state into recruiting dis tricts' to be presided over by Com munity Labor Boards. There are fourteen of these districts in Con- necticut. laid out according to indus trial unity and transportation facili- ties.
 As the name implies. these boards are to be centers for recruiting labor for war industries and listing and grading the men in the districts.
 The recruiting districts into which the state has been divided are as follows in part:
 In Fairfield County, two districts one district office in Bridgeport towns included: Bridgeport, Easton Fairfield, Huntington, Norwalk. Red ding, Stratford, Trun1bull Weston Westport; second office in Stamford towns included: Bethel, Brookfield Danbury, Darien, Greenwich, New Canaan, New Fairfield, Newtown Norwalk, Ridgefield, Sherman, Stam. ford. Wilton.
 Recruiting" under the new plar consists of enrolling unskilled labor (the term labor being used in its broadest sense) under pledge to go when called, into any work which the government considers more es sential than that in which they are ! now engaged. Such a declaration would not mean that these workmer would be moved at once, and some may never be moved, but they expres. their willingness to leave their pres ent jobs, or even the city or sectior of the country, if the Federal Elm ployment Service, representing thu | nation itself, considers such a chang, would make for more efficient prose | cution of the war.
 In charge of this recruiting il each district, there will be a Com munity Labor Board, composed o1 a chairman who will be a represen 1 tative of the United States Employ ment Service, one representative o local employers, and one representa- tive of local employees Thes 1 boards will settle all employmen 1 questions in their districts, subject t. | oppCoA LO LIAS oldle AuNIS ISOIy UOdTU i answering calls for labor from em | ployers in other districts and protect l ing thel abor of their own recruitin centers. Announcement of the quot of unskilled labor to be recruited an, transferred from non-war work t. essential industry in the district vii be sent to the community boards b. the State Director of the Federal Elm ployment Service. This will be tn
 local share of the state quota. Con necticut's first quota is 460. Other will follow and all will be divide | among the community boards
 The ultimate idea is to have a cen tral government agency with sole di | rection of all recruiting of civiIia
 workers for war industries and al applications for war labor, to be mad
 through the United States Employ
 ment Agency. The branch service the United States Public Service Re serve recruits and registers men wh are now employed and will expres
 readiness to serve on war wor when needed. The men so registere
 then constitute a reserve for futur
 use. Through this list labor will b
 shifted as it is called for throug
 the Employment Agency. After ha1
 ing signified their willingness to h
 transferred to more essential wor
 as soon as the need arises, the me
 are urged to keep their present jot
 and work full time. Such a syste1
 will do away with the poachfng of ls
 bor by employers and thee onstar
 shifting of labor which wastes tim money and materials.