The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-07-05
Labor and Thrift

according to the figures of Mark Sullivan writing
in Golfers. Two million have been called into
the military service, half million into the navy
and half million into the national ship-buildng
yards AT least two million Manufacturing wo-
men who do necessary work other than house
kceping-arc now will soon be required in the
airplane manufactures, and the manufacture of
airpIanes is one OF the minor industries of the
Frank Vanderlip, president of the National City
Bank of New York. has found an ingenious and
convincing way of arriving at the number of our
man power which has been diverted from normal
pursuits into war work. says Mr.. Sullivan. "He
first points out that the total amount of produc
ton that all man power can do in year is
about $3OOOOO0000O. Then he sets down along
side this fact the other fact that the appropriations
made by the United States government for the
present year are $1o,o0ooOooOo. That is to say,
The government is going to buy, for war purposes
(allowing for some millions for duplications) about
one-haf of the entire productive capacity of the
country. In other words, the government is going
t. hire for war work, and take away from normal
pursuits about half the entire power of
the country. That would be between 100000
. and 100000 of our man power. Others estimate
the number for the present, as somewhat lower.
They say that although it is true that the country,
7 in industrial way, is now more than fifty per
cent at war various considerations reduce the total
of man power diverted. A little later on they say,
the diversion will amount to fifty percent"
" To meet this drain upon the labor supply, with
no immigration arriving labor must be diverted
from many of its present tasks, Mr.. Sullivan
points out 1t cannot be drawn from the farming
class because agriculture is today one of the very
first essentials can it be drawn from the trans
poraton industries because transportation is also
of the prime essentials for winning the war
and must be increased rather than decreased. Sum
ming up the labor situation, the writer says:
# With only ss,oOO,OOO man power to start on with
100000 of that diverted TO war work; with 1000
b. 600 engaged in farming with 225OoOo engaged in
transportation and needed-under these condi-
tons the idea of business usual is out Of the ques
Beat the devil around the bush as we may, shall
always arrive Mt the point; namely, fixed total
5000 power, and under present conditions
shortage of from 100000 to 100000.
That is the main, central fact. That is the essential
truth.
from curing the famine but they will alleviate
it. And there are some other things proposed which
may may not be expedent to do.
All the proposals for allevtating the famine in man
power came down to these FIVE:
l. Conscrpt labor Draft all males from eighteen up
fifty sixty and put each of them at work in in
dustreS designated by the government (some of the
proposed bills put the limits at twenty to forty FIVE
others at sixteen to sixty -fve)
2. Take up the slack in the power we have.
By supervision avoid the wastage Of time and man
power Make economical use and moro eontin
use of the labor we have.
3. Use in industry.
4. Bring in the Chinese.
5. selfdenial. Do without Economic man power
by RETAINING the USE of Injuries which consume
man power. Go a basis and consume only
necessities.
The writer argues that conscripted labor cannot
be satisfactory labor effective in the final net
results. There is better way than government
compulson", he decides. The second proposal is
already being put into effect, the government EN-
ployment bureaux having largely done away witt
competition for labor among the largest manufac
+ turers. The employment Of women will not nj
the gap inasmuch many women are already in
Guided in the tabulations Of labor and inasmuCf
further as this country must not make the mistake
of interfering with "the opportunity and capacity
of these women to have families. Frances neet
4 of man power is CHASTITY, he points out, but ever
4 there the authorities are careful to make it easy
y for women to be war workers and mothers too
4. The suggestion of importing Chinese will appea
to Hawaii, but at the present time it is not prac
ticable, says Mr.. Sullivan. Two years from nov
it might be possible to bring in a million Chimes
laborers but not today, simply because we haV
not the ships in which to carry them. If we ha'
(. ships to bring million two Chinese we woult
use them to carry million two more soldier
to France There not ships to transpOr
. the 5000 available Porto RiCan laborers to tn
4 mainland or the 10000 available laborers read
on the Nirg Islands
II The final and best way OF meeting the famin
4 in man power" he says in conclusion, and it
. that he has said in