The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-06-09
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James A. Metcalf, Assistant Dis
trict Superintendent, to Be
Heard in Address.
EXPLAINS PLANS
OF GOVERNMENT
Pensacola Only Large City in
Florida Not Organized
for This Service.

James A. Metcalf assistant district
| superintendent of the United States
/ Employment Service, with headquar-
| ters at Meridian, Miss. will arrive in
Pensacola tonight or tomorrow morn
ing in the interests OF the u. s. EN-
ployment Service and will hold public
meetings at which he will speak and
explain the plans and purposes of the
service, which has a great war time
mission to perform.
Mr.. Metcaf hopes to hold a public
! gathering Tuesday night the time and
place yet to be determined. which will
be announced in the Pensacola Journal
Tuesday morning at the latest
| Mr.. Metcalf also desires to appear
before the Rotary Club, the Chambet
of Commerce of Pensacola or any other
assemblage where he can make brief
| remarks. He requests ministers of tho
city today to emphasize the menace of
! idle labor
He also desires to have a meeting of
/ the colored people of Pensacola and
vicinity as it is important to enlist the
| full cooperation of this race. A talk
| to them will be arranged the time and
place to be announced later
| Mr.. Metcalf states that at present
! Pensacola is not well organized for
| this service and is the only large city
| in Florida that has not yet taken up
the matter in detail
While here Mr. AIe.calf will select
!, a. local man as an examiner in securr
!, ing labor and also an office assistant
Mr.. Metcaf says: "The United
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! the public meetings a success
| NH Metcaf says: "The United
| States Employment Service of the De-
partment of Labor, which is now or
ganized and effectively operating in
| every state of the Union and in Porto
Rico, is planning to promote a more
| effective organization in Pensacola,
/ which is considered one of the most
! important points In Florida affected
! by The operations of this federal SER
vice.
| THE state of Florida is Joined with
| Georgia. Alabama Mississippi and
Louisiana in the sixth district of the
United States Employment Service
with district headquarters recently es-
tablished at Meridian, Miss. as abou.
the most central point that could be
selected for serving the interests of
these five states.
I'm order to further explain the plans
and purposes of this employment SER
vice, and to remove any misapprehen-
sion that may exist as to its mission.
District Superintendent Cliff williams
has commissioned Assistant District
Superintendent James A. Matcalf to
come to Pensacola.
Pending the perfecting of a definite
Organization in this city. Mr.. Robert
Leary, immigration inspector, has been
attending to some of the details of the
United States Employment Service
work However. he has his hands full
with his immigration work and de-
sires to be relieved Of the other. As
sistant District Superintendent Metcalf
will look into this matter while in the
city,
In a communication to The Journal
from district headquarters, the follow
ing points are brought out:
'Tt is not the purpose of the United
States Employment Service to deplete
the labor supply of the South or anv
other section for securing labor in es-
sential war industries, without recog-
milton of the fact that the industrial
integrity OF the nation as a whole must
be maintained in order to avoid busi-
ness stagnation and panic conditions
DeTeIOTS tHcSS upOHa the local
labor supply win be made twith the
least possible disturbance of local in
dustrial and agricultural conditions.
''It is recognized that, with all the
world at war and millions OF men re-
moved from productive employment, !,
great crisis confronts the entire human
race, and that the problem will not be
Immediately minimized with the end
ing of the war. while on the other hand
it is constantly aggravated with every
additional day that the struggle drags
on.
Under these conditions the maxi
mum man power Of America must be
brought into effscient operation as
means of self-preservation and world
rescue. Idle labor. wherever il may
exist, is an actual menace to this ma
ton.
The United States Employment
Service seeks to secure an equal dis
tribution of labor without impairment
of the industrial interests of any sec
ton"
1t is hoped that Assistant Superin-
tendent Metcalf will be greeted by a
large audience in Pensacola. and that
the cooperation of local business and
industrial interests may be secured in
this work.