The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-09-19
Extensive Industrial Ma
chinery to Place Men
Into Essential In
dustries
l8,425 IN STATE lit
Community Labor Board to Classify,
Various Industries Into
Twenty Different
Glasses.

Wisconsin greatest labor under
taking that of drafting 1925 I'M
skilled laborers for war industries in
the state viii be IN full operation by
October 1st, according to George P.
Hambrecht, chairman of the State
Advisory Board. Practically every i'm
dushy In the state win be affected by
the labor drive.
Labor draft machinery IN the state
lis completes. Many labor boards are
now working on their quotas and are
expected to have their full supply
of common labor ready for shifting
from non-essentid and less essential
work to war production, by the end Of
the coming week.
The Wisconsin employment service
OF the United States Department of
Labor is divided into three divisions
the state organization g committee,
composed of A. 7. Van Scoy, represent
ing management; Frank J. Weber, rep
resenting labor, and George P. Ham
brecht, chairman of the Wisconsin
Industrial Commission. This body is In
eli aree ok che entire state and federal
labor organizations in Wisconsin Els
wald Petit is state superintendent
of labor.
The state advisory committee is com
posed of representatives of manage
ment, labor, and of the Wisconsin In
dustrial Commission. George P. Ham
breeht is chairman; E. J.. Rearney and
Fred J. Clausen are appointees of man
agement; Frank J. Weber and J. j.
Handley are acting for labor, and
Fred II. French, executive secretary,
was elected by the board
Community labor boards have al
ready been organized IN fourteen of
the twenty-seven labor districts into
which the state has been divided, and
thirteen other boards win shortly be
formed, according TO Mr.. French. Each
community board is guided by three
members one representative of man
agement, one of labor and the third
is selected by the other two men.
Cities in which community labor
boards have been established are.
Amigo, Ashland, Chippewa Falls,
Grand Rapids, Green Bay, GAINESVILLE,
Kenosha, La Crosse, Marinette, Mil
waukee, Racine, Rhinelander, Sheboy-
gan and Wausau. Employment Offices
are now operated in twenty
cities of the state.
The Milwaukee Community Labor
Board is represented by Fred Fl.
French, chairman; A. w. Berresford,
appointee of management, and George
E. Mutter, acting for labor.
Definite orders have already been
sent out by the state advisoky board
to all community labor boards In the
state Industries in the twenty-seven
labor districts have been listed IN
three classes in accordance with the
federal war industries board as war,
less essential and non-essential.
Each community board viii have the
cooperation of the draft boards In it's
district, which viii furnish the board
with list of the names of men within
the draft age, their occupations and
their classification. Men will first be
withdrawn from the non-essential IN
dustries and then from the less essen
tiaI plants Those who refuse to obey
the order of the labor board, win be
reported to their draft board and
ordered into the army.
Board, according to Mr.. French, PO..
The local board win classify the
various industries in the county into
twenty distinct classes, in accordance
with the federal priority order Men
within the draft age, not engaged IN
war production viii be requested to
find employment IN essential work
The board expects that it viii not be
compelled to use coercion of any kind,
believing that the men viii cooperate.
'3The patriotism of the rank and file
of America s employers states the
United States Employment Service
Bulletin, in an editorial on September
3rd ,"whether engaged on essential or
non-essential work, and the power of
public opinion, which in these days of
growing casualty lists, is more effective
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