The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-11-23
TO ESTABLISH
 
 EXACT STATUS OF ALL WORKERS
Meeting of Great Import ance to Industries Held in
 Hartford Yesterday.

A meeting of immense importance to the industries and in fact to all | business interests in Connecticut was | held at the State Capitol Friday | afternoon at the offices of Federal | Director Leo A. Korper of the U. $. | Employment Service, and was @t- tended by members of the State Ad- visory Board, members of the Federal i directors executive staff, and by seV- eral local superintendents of the 1 service, and chairmen of the Com' munity Labor Boards from the larger industrial centars of the state. who were summoned by wire to meet F. T. l Lamson, expert statistician of the | U. S. War Industries Board, who had come from Washington to inquire into the industrial situation in this state.
 It appeared that through some mis- understanding certain premature orders had come to Connecticut, can- ceiling war contracts to 8 degree threatening to upset the industries concerned, and Federal Director Kor-
 per had at once wired Washington for
 fuller consideration of the situation
 in this state. Those attending the meeting were besides Federal Director Korper and Mrs. Lamson: Mrs. Rob-
 ert H. Fife, Jr, of Middletown, and
 Messrs. E. A. Moore of New Britain,
 James T Moran and I. N Ornburn of Nay Haven, members of the State
 Advisory Board; David. Elder farm
 help specialist; Dwight L Rogers, Jr.,
 chief clerk, Miss Margaret Corwin, assistant superintendent of the , Woman's Division; Misses Barbara G. Lincoln, Beatrice R. Baxter, secretar-
 ies of the federal office; local Super intendents Charles E. Julin of New
 Haven, A. w. Burritt of Bridgeport;
 also Messrs. M. S. Little of Hartford,
 Wilson H. Lee and George Mordecat
 of New Haven, F. D.. Gurley of Stam-
 ford, David Bloomfield of Meriden,
 the last named representing the Community Labor Boards of their several districts.
 MT. Lamson outlined a plan devised
 under his direction at Washington to
 obtain the exact status of workers in
 the larger Connecticut factories. both ? war industries and non-war industries, weekly reports to be made by the chairman of the Community Labor Boards to Washington and to the
 office of the Federal director at the
 State Capitol In order to guide the . National War Industries Board in the
 demobilization of the army by indi- |. eating Just where and to what extent ; Connect1cuts returning soldiers can 3 De placed; also to guide the Federal
 director and the local superintendents
 and Community Boards in readjusting laoor in Connecticut industrial centers 5 rom war work to non-war work. Mir
 Lamson's plan was heartily approved, and 1t is believed that 1t will mater
 lally aid in the prompt readjustment
 or the labor situation in Connecticut without serious disturbance of indus.
 try or loss of time by employees.
 In fact the reports brought to the meeting by the local superintendents ,, or the U. s. Employment Service an6 chalrmen of the Community Labo,
 Boards from the larger industrial
 cehters Indicated a gratifying readi
 ness on the part of many imnortan- industries of Connecticut to absorb . any labor to be released from wal - work. Some of the big factories have . been planning ahead for this situa.
 uon, and are ready to shift over f, 7, peace production; and some of ths noh-war industries are eager for al
 the heIp they can get. In some Iocali
 tles there may be temporary uneven n nesS' put on the whole, the situation
 as revealed at Fridays meeting wa, .. very reassuring.
 l. Tn this connection the following lei T. ter Just issued by Secretary Wilson # or the Labor Department. of the Pres ,e luents Cabinet, is of particular inter a est. Secretary Wilson writes:
 h 10 the Members of the Communit- ,y Labor Boards:-
 "a trust sincerely that no nembe
 or Community Labor Board will fai l. to appreciate that the cessation O ie hostllltles brings new opportunitie Ia TOT service and imposes new and i'm is portant duties. The country nov 10 races the obligation to return to suir ,d able employment those whom unde m the stress of war it has induced f n enter its service in the field or in tn , factory Upon the manner in whic'
 that obligation will be fulfilled de 7t bends in very large measure the we D. being Of the people for many yea1 r. to come, as well as the vindication .,
 those principles of justice which ari ,d mated us in the pursuits of war, h. There is no instrIImentality at tn ,s governments command as we'll equtE q pea to help in the process of traus1 r. tlon rom war to peace as the Com
 munity LaborsBoards and at no tim ia since the beginning of the war na
 the need of such service been so UTE a ent or the duty imposed upon thos
 capable of performing them as i'm o- perative.
 or Therefore, I confidently app gal [
 each of you to continue at your pos IT, until the last unit of our forces over B. seas shall have been brough; bac be to appropriate pursuits of peace an to the last man to be withdrawn fro1
 war service shall have been given a or opportunity Of employment for whic h. he Is fitted to serve
 a 1.-The demands of these days. are Del in haps even greater because more di1 to ficult to fulfill than the high ca
 of duty in war. We must be tru ,s to ourselves and to our faith and dis
 charge the problems that are pressin
 upon us. Much depends upof tt
 members of the Community Labc
 Boards in the fuIfillment of our tas T "(Signed),
 A ''W. B. WILSON,
 Secretary of Labor ld- In nearly all the states except Col Int necticut the chairman of the Con of munity Labor Board Is also the loc De- superintendent of the U. g. Ennlo of ment Service, but in this state a dj A ferent plan was adopted, by whit 'ri- the recruiting of war labor from no