Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-26
WAR LABOR ADMINISTER ATIONPROGRAM
AS APPROVED BY PRESIDENT WILSON
To Be Employed Under Direction Secretary
Equtaby Distribute House
Workmen-Employment Service Organized Separate
of Department Labor, With Director

The chairman of the council of ma
tional defense and the secretary of
labor authorize the following:
As a result of a series of confer
ences on the subject of labor policies,
the council of national defense sub
mitted to the President a program
for war labor administration. This
program has been approved by the
President and he has, accordingly, re-
quested the secretary Of labor to un-
dertake this administrator and to pro-
vide for this purpose the following
agencies:
Six Principal Agencies.
l. A means of furnishing an ade-
quate and stable supply of labor to
war industries. This will include:
(a) A satisfactory system of labor
exchanges.
Cb) A satisfactory method and ad-
ministration of training Of workers.
(c) An agency for determining
priorities of labor demand.
Id Agencies for dilution of skilled
labor as and when needed.
2. Machinery which will provide
for the immediate and equitable ad-
justment of disputes in accordance
with principles to be agreed upon be-
tween labor and capital and without
stoppage of work. Such machinery
would deal with demands concerning
wages, hours, shop conditions, etc.
3. Machinery for safeguarding
conditions of labor in the production
of war essentials. This TO include in
dustrial hygiene, safety, women and
child labor, etc.
!. Machinery for safeguarding
conditions Of living, including hous-
ing, transportation, etc
5. Fact-gathering body 20 assemble
and present data, collected thru va
rious existing governmental agencies
OF by independent research, TO fur
nish the information necessary for
effective executive action
6. Information and education divi-
sion. which has the functions Of de-
veloping sound public sentiment, Sc
curing an exchange Of Ef1rmatIon be-
tween departments of labor admins
tration. and promotion in industrial
plants of local machiugry helpful in
carrying out the national labor pro
gram.
Agencies Already Existing.
Some of these agencies already eN-
ist in part in the department of labor.
For example, the mediation service,
the system of labor exchanges and the
bureau of labor statistics can be util-
lied to the extent they are found use
full in carrying out tho new program.
1t is the purpose of the secretary
of labor to undertake the work out
lined above on an adequate scale. He
will call to his assistance as advisers
and administrators a well-balanced
corps of men Of high standing, rep
resenting capital, labor and the public.
These persons will assist him in form
ulating and efficiently executing poll
cies which will command the approval
and support of employers, employees
and the public thruout the United
States. The secretary and his advis-
ers will give early attention to the
question whether congressional action
shall be requested.
The secretary of labor will bring
this new service into touch with the
needs of the various departments of
government, including the shipping
board. in order that labor policies may
be made uniform and that the service
thus established under the Presidents