Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1918-06-05
DELAWARE FARM
LABOR BUREAU
What 1t Is and How 1t Works

council realized that to enable the
farmers of Delaware to produce
the maximum amount of food,
some steps must be taken to fur
nish them with help at the critical
times Of seeding and harvesting.
In consequence joint meeting
was called of representatives of
the State Council of Defense, to-
gether with Mr.. Armstrong, then
Director of the Boys Working Re-
serve; Mr.. Charles Warner, Di-
rector Of the u. S. Public Service
Reserve; Messrs. Saylor and Benk-
hard of the u. S. Employment Ser
vice in Delaware; and Mr.. M. O.
Pence, State Leader of County
Agents, who it was felt could speak
more authoratively of farm con-
ditions than any other man in the
State.
At this first meeting tentative
plans were drawn UP for the or
ganization of the Delaware Farm
Labor Bureau. Later these plans
were practically all approved by
the State Defense Council and the
Delaware Farm Labor Bureau be-
came an active organization on
May 13, and is today doing much
to supply a part Of the 1000 farm
laborers, which the survey, taken
through the schools early this
spring, proved to be the need of
the farmers of this state, if they
are to produce a maximum amount
of food this crop season.
The organization of the Della
ware Farm Labor Bureau consists
Of a combination of the agencies
which can supply labor, together
with a series of Offices, one in each
county, which were established for
the purpose of collecting the de-
mands of the farmers for help, and
to serve as place where a farmer
could go and make arrangements
and explain his need for any par
ticular kind of farm help. The
three agencies which are supplying
farm labor in the state consist of
the u. S. Boys Working Reserve:
the u. S. Public Service Reserve;
and the u. S. Employment Service,
all of which have an office in Will
mington. The Z. S. Boys Working
Reserve has about three hundred
High School boys between the ages
of l6 and Fl years, who will work
on the farms of the state during
the summer vacation. The u. s.
Public Service Reserve has enroll
ed large amount of short time
help in the towns of the state. 1t
has persuaded many factory own
ers to grant extra long vacations
to employees, who will spend these
vacations working on a farm, and
it further plans to enroll town men
of former farm experience for
short time work in the harvest
fields. The U. S. Employment Ser
vice is supported by the National
Government and it hires men for
all branches of Government work
including Agriculture. It's SER
vices are free to both employer and
employee. These three agencies are
now united under one direction,
for tn purpose of supplying farm
help, in the Old Federal Building
at 9Th and King Streets, Whining
ton, Delaware. Therefore all the
help made available by them can
be drawn ON Immediately by the
Secretary of the Delaware Farm
Labor Bureau, who received the re-
quests for help which come from
farmers throughout the state
through the local Offices in each
county. These local county Off
GERS are in charge of the County
Agents and are located in Sussex
County, at Georgetown with Coun-
ty Agent Kaufman in Charge; in
Kent County, at Dover with Coun-
ty Agent Zimmerly in charge; in
New Castle County at the Old Fed
eral Building, Wilmington, with
Mr.. Ryan in charge The office of
County Agent Bausman at Newark
also serves as a local branch of
this organization. A farmer sends
in request for help to his County
office from which it is forwarded
to the Secretary the the Whining.
ton office, who then obtains man
from either the U. S. Employment
Service, the u. S. Public Service
Reserve or the U. S. Boys Working
Reserve.
How the Delaware Farm Labor
Bureau Works
The following is a typical illus,
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