Evening journal., 1918-09-12
TO INVESTIGATE
COST OF LIVING
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Wants Information That
Wages May be Adjusted
COLORED WOMEN
DOING THEIR BIT

The Bureau OF Labor Statistics OF
The Department OF labor has begun
country wide Investigation Of the cost
Of living. The MATERIAL collected Is TO
be used as a basis In making wage adj
justments.
The inquiry will include different
features, the principal one being the
gathering OF information from families
as 10 their expenditures for one year
for the various items OF food and OF
clothing and for housing. fuel, furni-
ture and miscellaneous expenses. In
formation Is being gathered by special
agents OF the Bureau Of Labor sta
tistics who will call on representative
families In different parts OF each local
ity visited
All information given by housewives
90 these agents will be held as strictly
con16 initial. Not only will the informa-
ton be OF service 90 The government,
but u will help the housewife In
knowing exactly what she is getting FOR
her money.
The manner In which The western
wheat harvest was carried through 90
complete success is typical Of the CEN
trallzed control in force for all The la
Dor recruiting and distributing work or
the Employment Service. The simile Of
great military campaign with all the
! lines Of operation following a co-ordi-
mated plant OF attack is the one which
| aptly illustrates the manner in which
the work was handled.
Acting as cOmmander-in-ohlef OF all
local bodies cooperating in the har-
vest work, A. J.. Barkman, who, as as
sistant 20 the Director General Of the
Employment Service, was I'm general
/ charge OF the western wheat harvest
first established temporary farm labor
/ Offices through all the territOne TO be
| covered by his drive starting In Okla
homa early IN June. moved his forces
steadily nOrthward through the wheat
/ belt, successive waves OF harvesters
cutting and threshing as the summers
sun ripened the grain ahesd OF them.
The harvest in this country is now
virtually finished, but by agreement be
tween the Department Of Labor end the
/ Canadian Government a portion or the
harvest army is now working across
the border into the great wheat fields
| OF western Canada, whence it viii re-
turn TO this country in the fall In time
for harvesting corn.
Branch No. 1, United States Employ
Inent Service. at Front and King streets
is admirably situated for catching
workmen Of foreign nationallties as is
shown by some Of those applying there
| for employment yesterday. The for
elgn countries represented were: Costa
Rica, Norway, Chill, Columbia, Panama,
! Argentine. Mexico, Switzerland, Can
ada, Spain. Italy, Germany, Scotland,
Greece, Sweden and Russia.
That The colored women OF this city
are Just as willing 20 "do their Bit In
furnishing supplies for our boys in The
trenches In France as are the white
women was evidenced this week by the
quick response Of the oOlOred women
10 an appeal issued by the United States
Employment Service for women work
ers in munitfSn plants. The call was
for Nifty cOl0red women. In one day
seventy-eight cOlOred women were sup
! piled for the work by the Woman
| Division OF the H. 5. Employment SER
vice at No. S3s Market street.
The demand for corn cutters at this
time far exceeds the supply. and the
! United States Employment Service al
Sixth and King strets. has a big list Of
! farmers Who are offering good wages
with board and lodging TO men who are
| willing 10 do this work and help feed
! the country.
! "Bund Arbeitvermittlungsdienstes' Is
the formidable title Of the United States
Employment Service In the German
! language.
In spite Of this handicap to The COM
positions the German language press
OF the country is In many cases giving
generous publicity TO the centralized
labor recruiting program Of the service.