The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-07
LABOR RECRUITING PLAN
Director Kelley Has Districted Kansas
for Big Work Soon.'


A new arrangement has been made
for handling the business of the state
labor director in this state. ]. VIII
Kelley is state labor director and
| chairman of the organization commit
tee of the United States employment
| service for Kansas. The state is to be
| organized into districts for the purpose
| of carrying out the plan of the gov
eminent in recruiting labor for war
| industries.
A standing advisory committee was
named by the committee to represent
| labor and industry, and this commit
| tee will have charge of the recruiting
| supervision, and will sit as an appeal
| board to adjust difficulties surround
ing the business of procuring labor to
meet the needs Of the different war
| industries. Members of the organiza-
| ton committee are ]. w. Kelley,
| chairman; Robert NJ McCandish of
Kansas City to represent the employ
ers. and ]. o. Stevic of Topeka, to rep
resent labor
| The state will have eleven districts
with a central office and employment
agent in charge for each district. A
| county labor board will cooperate
with the district agent in securing re-
/ cr'uits. The county boards will be
made up of three men, one to Iepre-
sent the labor interests and to be rec
commended by labor bodies, a second
to represent commercial interests, and
| the third to be representative CT the
| federal employment service. These
| boards will act as arbitration com nit
tees in choosing the county quotas of
men required from the none essential
| industries; the county board will de-
| eide which industries are really essen
| tial and those which are not VIII he
asked to release all the employees they
| can for government service.
| Members of the advisory committee
named at the meeting Tuesday are:
J. VIII Kelley. chairman; Earl Drap-
| er, Arma. and Frank Brown of To
| peka, representing labor; R. o. Nc
| Cormick, Wichita, and Roy H. Hope
| of Topeka, representing industry.
| The districts of the state, with the
| city in which the central employment
| office is to be located, and the counties
comprising each district, are as fol-
| lows:
Doni I,hira brown. Marshall and
Washington.
District kansas City; wyandotte,
| Leavenworth.
District s-Emporia: johnson.
Miami, Linn, Anderson, Franklin,
Usage, Coffey, Lyon, Morris, Chase,
Marion.
| District 4-Parsons; Neosho, Allen,
Labette, Bourbon, Crawford, Chero-
kee.
district 5-Independence; Green
wood, Elk. Chautauqua, Woodson,
| Wilson, Montgomery.
District 6.-Wichita; Cowley, But
Ter, Harvey, Sumner, Sedgwick.
District Hutchinson; Barton,
Rice, Stafford. Reno, Pratt, Kingman,
| Barber and Harper
District S-Dodge City; Rush, Paw
nee, Edwards, Kiowa, Comanche-
| Clark, Ford, Hodgeman, Ness, Lane,
| Finney, Gray, Meade, Seward, Haskell,
Scott, Wichita, Kearny, Grant, Stevens,
| Stanton, Norton, Hamilton. Greeley
District 9-Topeka; Douglas, Shaw
nee, Wabaunsee, Geary, Rile.. Pot
| taw6tomie.
District 10-Salina; Saline. Ottawa,
Cloud. Republic. Clay. Dickinson
Ellsworth, Russell, Osborne, Jewell
| Smith.
District 11-Hays. Ellis. Rocks
Phillips. Norton. Decatur. Sheridan
Cove, Trego, Graham. Logan. Wallace
| Sherman, Cheyenne, Thomas, Rawlins