Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-26
LABOR PROGRAM
United States Employment Service
Takes Over Business of Supplying
All War Industries With Unskiiled
Labor August Five Exceptions
Labor Program to Protect EN-
ployes, Employers and Communities

On August l the supplying of war
industries with common labor will be
centralized in the U. S. Employment
Service of the Department of Labor,
and all Independent recruiting of COM
mon labor by manufacturers having
payroll of more than 100 men will 'be
diverted to the U. S. Employment
Service. This is in accordance with
the decision of the War Labor Poll
cies Board and approved by the Pres
ident on June II. (The War Labor
Policies Board is composed of repre-
sentatives of the War, Navy, and
Agricultural departments, the Ship
ping Board, and the Emergency Fleet
Corporation, the War Industries
Board, and the Food, Fuel, and Rail-
road administrations. Its chairman
is Felix Frankfurter, assistant to the
Secretary of Labor.)
The above action was found neces-
sary to overcome a perilous shortage
IF unskilled labor in war industries.
This shortage was aggravated by an
almost universal practice of labor
stealing and poaching.
While the restrictions against the
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only to common labor at the present
time, these restrictions will, as soon
as possible, be extended to include
skilled labor. In the meantime re-
cruiting of skilled labor for war pro-
duction will be subject to federal reg
ulations now being prepared.
This drastic change in the Ma
tons labor program has been found
necessary in order to protect the en-
ployer and employed, to conserve the
labor supply of the communities and
to cut down unnecessary and expen-
sive labor turnover (which in some
cases, is as high as 100 per cent
lweek), and to increase the production
of essentials.
While non-essential industries will
be drawn upon to supply the neces-
sary labor for war work, the with
drawal will be conducted on an equit-
able basis in order to protect the in
. dividual employer as much as posi-
, BILE.
Under the operating methods
adopted the country has been divided
into 13 federal districts, each dis
trict in charge of superintendent of
the U. S. Employment Service. The
states within each district are in turn
in, charge of state director, who has
full control of the service within his
state.
In each community there is being
= formed local community labor board
consisting of a representative of the
U. S. Employment Service, repre-
sentative of employers and repre-
sentative of the employed. This board
will have jurisdiction over recruiting
and distributing labor in its locality
' A survey of the labor requirements
}, is being made, and in order that each
5 community may be fully protected
: rulings have been issued that no la
: Dor shall be transported out of any
Il community by the U. S. Employment
Service without the approval of tn,
, State Director; nor shall any labol
s. be removed by the service from on
/ state to another without the approva
s of the U. S. Employment Service a
! Washington. Every effort will be mad
le to discourage any movements fror
community to community or state
: state by any other service.
~ This labor program has the approx
II al of all producing departments Q
Il Il the government, through the War La
81 Dor Policies Board.
~ It must be understood that farr
u, ~ labor will be protected, for the indus
trial program distinctly includes spe
cial efforts to keep the farmer sur
piled with labor.
f. The requirement that unskilled IL
lg Dor must be recruited through th
ne sole agency of the U. S. Employmer
ry Service does not at present apply
of the following five cases:
1. Labor which is not directly or il
lit directly solicited.
on q Labor for the railroads.
G. 8. Farm labor-to be recruited In a,
he cordance with existing arrang'
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