Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-06-18
PLANS BEING MADE FOR ITS Ell
FoRcEMENT By PUBLIC
SERVICE RESERVE.
FOUR FIELD AGENTS TO
BE PUT TO WORK IN IOWA
Chance to Be Given Men Who Come
Under Its Provisions to Enroll in Re.
serve For Farm Work or Labor in
Ship Yards-Trainine in Mechanics
For Reeistrants IN Iowa.
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Des Moines, June 1s.-The United
States public service reserve will be
one of the agencies thru which the
work or fight" order will be carried
out.
H. ]. tMctcalf, secretary OF the Iowa
council OF national defense and also di-
rector of the public service reserve for
Iowa, and Labor Commissioner A. L.
Trick have returned from Washing
ton, where they attended conference
of public service reserve workers and
state labor officials.
Four field agents of the public ser
vice reserve are to be put to work IN
Iowa by July 1. They will visit the
county reserve agents and local draft
boards and check up on the, registered
men as to their employment The pro-
vost marshal generals order is to be
enforced to the letter, Secretary Met
calf reports. and throughout the entire
country there will be big shifting of
workers after July l.. ~
1T will be great help to men who
come under this work or fight" ruling
if they will fill out public service re-
serve cards." said Secretary Metcalf
today. 1T will show their willingness
to adapt themselves to the govern
ment's needs They can enroll for
emergency farm labor service, or for
work in the shipyards either as labor
ers or mechanics, or for other classes OF
work which will help meet the govern
ment needs.
Can Enlist Tor work.
Signing up these cards means they
will go into this work as soon as the
government calls them. 1t is an en-
listment for work and after such en-
listment a man must take up this work
when ordered
There is going to be vast demand
for shipyard workers soon. Many la
borers will be needed as we'll as skilled
carpenters and mechanics.
Public service reserve cards can be
obtained of county council Of defense
chairmen or Of the county reserve
agents in each county Of the state.
Local draft boards also have these en-
rollment cards.
IF man fills out card he places
himself in readiness to go when the
government asks for him."
Training School Opportunity.
Another opportunity is offered by the
government to registered men to secure
training at government expense as
auto mechanics under an order received
by Adjutant General Logan Monday
from Provost Marshal General Crow
der.
This opportunity is open to 103 men
from Iowa. The men must volunteer
for service with their local boards by
June 21st They will be sent to the
Armour Institute of Technology July
/ for instruction as auto tradesmen.
Men selected for this service will re-
ceive a course of training at govern
ment expense fitting them to serve in
army positions both at the front and
behind the lines" declares the order.
Men taking this course will receive
thorough instruction which will be Of
great personal value in working their
way ahead both in the army and in
civil life. The men will be assigned
during their course to that kind Of me-
chanical training, for which greatest
need exists attheN time of the CALL
General Logan explains in his letter
to local boards that 1T is considered
impracticable for his office to allot
men for this call to local boards and
therefore every local board in Iowa will
at once make a call for volunteers for
this call from among the qualified reg
istrants in Glass l." he declares.
The local boards must notify General
Logan's Office by telegraph not later
than the night Of June 21st of the num-
Der Of volunteers TO rthis work and the
allotment vial then be made by General
Logan on June 22nd. Men will be
drafted il a sufficient number has not
volunteered.