Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-14
CROAFF ASKS AID FOR MOBILIZATION
 OF ARIZONA LABOR

A circular received by R. J. Wilbur of this city from Thomas J. Croaff,
 federal director of the state depart
 ment of labor, asks the aid of local trade unions. farm bureaus and all employers of labor in his task of coor- dinating labor in the state with view to expediting war work The circular says:
 The National Administration having directed the U. s. Department of Lab or to mobilize and distribute the labor power of the nation to support through conscious and efficient industrial act ion our various comrades at the front. there has been organized throughout the country for this specific purpose the U. s. Employment Service, a divis- ion Of the United States Department of Labor, and it's volunteer recruiting branch, the U. s. Public Service Re serve.
 During the recent national war lab or conference, held in Washington City, June 13 to IS, a comprehensive program was outlined and will prompt ly be put into operation by the federal directors in each state. In the mobilization and distribution of labor, industries essential to the war will be given preference. It will be necessary for such industries to secure their labor supply through the U. S. Employment Service and its CO., operating agencies.
 In the operation of the labor mObili- zation program this department shall expect the fullest and most patriotic cooperation and assistance from:
 CD The trades uniOps. ! (2) The farm bureaus. (3) The employers of labor. (4) The governmental agencies con 1 cerned in labor and industrial rela- tions.
 Trades union workers will be mob ilized through their own organizations; unorganized workers through their eni- ployers; while farm labor will be mob ilized and distributed through the re- spective farm bureaus.
 Trades union organizations and farm bureaus throughout Arizona are re quested to nominate without delay a representative in each local union or farm bureau to act as a volunteer agent of the U S. Public Service Re serve. This volunteer agent will keep the Federal Director for this state con stantly informed as to his particular organization or locality, and assist in the mobilization plan now in process of execution.
 In making the nomination of such an agent local trade unions and farm bu- reaus are urged to select a man or woman thoroughly conversant with in i dustrial problems. diplomatic in tenn perament. a citizen of the United
 States and permanently domiciled in ! his present locality. Such volunteer agent when appointed will be constant ly advised of the plan for mobilizing and distributing skilled and unskilled
 labor, and will be furnished franked : envelopes for official correspondence. Other volunteer agents, representative . in their locality, will be appointed from
 time to time.
 County directors for each county, patriotic and fair to labor and capital, 1 will be selected by the federal director with a representative labor distribu- tion committee to handle local prob lens of labor mobilization and distri-
 The U. S. Public setvice Reserve un- der the general direction of the feder- al director for the state, will be the active volunteer, recruiting branch of | the U S. Employment Service (with branch offices in each industrial cen { ter) and will, by devotion to our na- ticnal cause, render valuable service ! to the government and our people, in l securing a quick and decisive victory ' tary and labor forces-HUMAN POW ! FIR IN ACTION.
 ! The prompt nomination to me of your volunteer agent in the U. s. Pub [ lie Service Reserve is earnestly urged ! Sincerely yours, THOMAS J. CROAFF, | Federal Director.
 July 10. 1918.