El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-08-12
WAR LABOR BY
UNITED STATES
SERVICE ONLY

QLUEhtQ6 GH6A
The new labor-supplying program
OF the Employment Service viii be
conducted in accordance with the fol-
lowing four cardinal principles:
Il War work must have men at
any cost
?. Withdrawals OF workers from
nonessential industries for war
industries VIII be equalized.
3. The volunteer principle will
be followed in dealing with the
individual worker.
&. Only fit men viii be sent TO
war industries.
Employer Aid Essential.
While emphasizing that the situa-
tion IS such that there can be no tenn
porizing and that labor must be found
for war industries at all costs, the
Department Of Labor and its War
labor Policies Board place equal en-
phasis upon the necessity for prac-
ticaI and tangible assistance from IN
dividual employers and employees and
their organizations. Their advice and
essential 10 the success OF the labor
mobnizing and stabilizing program.
As one means OF obtaining this Co
operation. community boards, with
equal representation OF employers and
wage earners, viii be formed in all
industrial centers to work with the
representatives OF the Employment
Service and its Public Service Re
serve. Since labor priorities are fun
damentally best determined locally,
these community boards viii be asked
10 play an important part in deter
mining how Withdrawals Of workers
for essential production viii be made.
Employment managers especially will
be urged TO work in conjunction with
the local offices Of the Employment
Service and the agents OF the Reserve.
The recruiting OF unskiued workers
viii be done along the following gen
eral lines.
Common Labor Recruiting Plan.
After Aug. 1 the Employment Serv-
ice VIII have exclusive control over
finding and placing common labor IN
war industries Nonesseutial manu-
facturers. farmers. and war manufac- +
turers with less than 100 workers
and the transportation industry for
the time being are not included in
the prohibition against private re-
cruIting. although their activities viii
be regulated by the Employment
Service. whose rules shortly viii be
announced. A number OF the rail-
roads. however, notably those in the
western territory already have
agreed to get their labor exclusively !
through the service and their agencies I
have been taken over by the federal I
service.
states Given Quotas.
With a rough estimate Of the com
mon labor reserves in each state and
community and the needs OF the war
industries for the next three months
as a basis. each state has been given
a quota Of common labor. which may
be drawn upon as men are needed
The state directors Of the Public
Service Reserve in turn have divided
their states. assigning TO each divis-
ion a certain portion OF their states
quotas. Each state director. in re-
distributing his states quota, consult
ed with the Reserve directors Of other
states. the directors Of the Employ
ment Service proper. and with busi-
ness men
The quotas are not drafts upon the
states, but. as a matter Of fact, con
stitute 2 protection to the states.
Some states have been drawn upon
too heavily, while others have not
given their fair share. By determine
ton Of state quotas the fairest pos
sibIe figures are expected TO be ar
rived at Industries within state
will be cared for by Withdrawals from
within It's borders wher-
ever possible. For instance, calls for
small numbers Of men by war indus
tries in Pennsylvania would be met
by taking men from nonessentials.
within the Keystone states borders.
while calls for a great number would
be met by transfers OF men from non
essentials elsewhere in the country.
Placement System
With the Public Service Reserve
machinery in each state attending to
the recruiting through agents in viz
tually every community, the local
offices Of the Employment Service
VIII attend TO the placing They viii
be in constant touch with the war
industries in their respective terri
tories, receiving regularly the re-
Quiremeuts OF those industries in or
der that labor needs may be known in
advance. All calls for common labor
VIII be carefully checked by the
branch employment offices in order
that only the actual needs may be I
given attention II has been found Z
that many firms still call for 1000
men in a week, when actually 200
cannot be used within three weeks.
Only Best Men for War Work.
The best men in industry for the
war industries" viii be the goal Of 4
the Employment Service. Experts in
sizing Up workers according TO their
training and experience viii be at
tached TO the local offices of the En-
ploymenr Service. and few viii be
the men sent TO a shipyard or muni-
ton plant who are not according to
specification When expedient local
health boards viii be utilized in de-
termining the physical fitness Of
workers
War manufacturers viii be protect
ed against inroads upon their work
ing forces by private labor scouts"
BY this centralizing program No
longer can any shipyard- or war-ma- :
terials mandatory take men from / I
another equally essential enterprise. N
Z armers will be one OF the classes Of M
essential producers 70 benefit II II
many sections, notably in the south II
and east, farms have been swept bare III
lf labor by private recruiting agents. III