New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-08-05
RECRUITING LABOR
BY DISTRICT PLAN
State Divided Into Sections to
Grade WOrkIDeD in State

Launched
throughout Connecticut by the divi-
sion Of the state into recruiting
districts to be presided over by Com
munity Labor Boards. There are
fourteen Of these districts in Connect
icut, laid out according to industrial
unity and transporta ton facilities.
AS the name implies, these boards
are to be centers for recruiting labor
for war industries and listing and
grading the men in the districts. The
personnel of the community labor
boards will be announced later.
The recruiting districts into which
the state has been divided are as
follows:
In Holland County one district;
district office at Rockville (Vernon):
towns included: Andover, Bolton,
Columbia, Coventry Ellington, Heb
ron Mansfield. Somers, Stafford, Tol-
land Union. Vernon, Wilmington.
In Windham County, two districts;
one district office at Wil1imantic
(Windham); towns included: Ash
ford Chaplin. Eastford, Hampton.
Scotland, Windham; second district
office at Danielson OIillingly); towns
include: Brooklyn, Canterbury. Kill
ingly, Plainf1eld, Pomfret Putnam,
Sterling, Thompson, Woodstock.
In New London County, two dis
tricts; one district Office in New
London; towns included: East Lyme,
Groton. Ledyard, Lyme, Montville.
New London, North Stonirgto I'D
Lyme, Stontngton, Waterford; second
district office III Norwich; towns in
Guided: Bozrah, Colchester, Franklin,
Griswold, Lebanon, Lisbon, Norwich,
Preston, Salem, Sprague, Voluntown,
Tn 10 ;e4,
one district office in New Britain;
towns included: Berlin, Bristol, New
Britain, Plainville, southington:
second district office in Hartford;
towns included: Avon, Bloomfield,
Burlington, Canton, East CRANKY.
East Hartford, East Windsor, Enfield
Pennington, Glastonbury, CRANKY
Hartford, Hartland, Manchester,
Marlboro, Newington, Rocky Hill,
simsbury. South windsor, suffield,
West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor,
Windsor Locks.
In New Haven County three dis
tricts; one district office in New
Haven towns included; Bethany.
Branford, Cheshire, Guilford, New
Haven, East Haven, Hamden, North
Branford, Madison, Milford Walling-
ford, North Haven, Orange Wood
sonia; towns included: Ansonia,
Beacon Falls, Derby, Oxford, Sey~
mour: third district office in Water
bury; towns included Meriden,
Middlebury, Naugatuck, Prospect,
Southbury Waterbury, Wolcott
In Fairfield County, two districts;
one district Office in Bridgeport;
towns included: Bridgeport, Easton.
Fairfield, Huntington, NorwaIk, Red
ding, Stratford, Trumbull Weston,
Westport; second office in Stamford;
towns included; Bethel, Brookfield,
Danbury, Darien, Greenwich, New
Canaan New Fairfield, Newton, Nor
walk. Ridgef1eld, Sherman, Stamford,
Wilton
In Litohfield County one district;
district office in Torrington; towns
included: Barkhamsted, Bethlehem.
Bridgewater, Canaan Colebrook,
Cornwall, Goshen, Harwinton, Kent,
Litchfield, Morris, New Hartford,
New Milford, Norfolk, North Canaan
Plym outh, Roxbury, Salisbury, Sharon
Thomaston, Torrington, Warren,
Washington, WATERFOWL, Winchester,
Woodbury.
In Middlesex County, one district;
district office in Middletown; towns
included: Chester, Clinton, Crom-
we'll, Durham, East Haddam, East
Hampton, Essex, Haddam, Killing
worth, MiddetOwn, Middlefield, Old
Saybrook, Portland, Saybrook West |
brook.
Recruiting under the new plan
consists of enrolling unskilled labor
(the term labor being used in it's
broadcast sense) under pledge to go, |
when called, into any work which the
government considers more essential !
than that In which they are now en-
gagged. Such a declaration would not |
mean that these wOrkmen would be |
moved at once, and some may never |
be moved, but they express their |
willingness to leave their present. jobs |
or even the city or section of the |
country, if the Federal Employment |
Service, representing the nation itself, |
considers such a change would make |
for more efficient prosecution of the |
war.
In charge Of this recruiting in each |
district, there will be. a community |
labor board, composed of chairman, |
who will be a representative of the |
United States Employment Service, |
one representative of local employers,
and one representative of local en-
ployes These boards will settle all |
employment questions in their dis
tricts subject to appeal to the State
Advisory Board. answering calls for
labor from employers in other dis
tricts and protecting the labor of their
own recruiting centers. Announce
rnent of the quota of unskilled labor
to be recruited and transferred from
non-war work to essential industry in
the district will be sent to the COM
munity boards by the State Director of |
the Federal Employment Service.
This will he the local share of the