Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-08
RIGID EMPLOYMENT
Of REGULATIONS FOR
SECURING SERVICE
There Will Be a Fair Distribution
and No ''Poaching" Will BE
Allowed.
WAR WORK MUST GO ON
Special Dispatch from Every Evening 5
Washington Cores pendent

Special Dispatch from Every Evening 5
Washington Cores pendent
Washington, july Arrangements
are being made by \. G. Pcnkhart OF
Wilmington, State director for Delaware
of the United States Employment Ser
vice. through officials here. 10 open an
educational campaign among Wilmington
EMPLOYERS. probably on July ID. as TO the
aims of the service Ii IS hoped that
Nicholas Van der Pyl of Oherlin, .. VIII
he able then to address n meeting oi manu-
facturers and employers. Tie is making "A
tour of the Eastern States, preparing the
way for the program which starts on
August tftcr that day no employer
engaged in war work may recruit com
mon labor privately. The employment
service, by proclamation OF the President,
Is designated as the exclusive agency tor
recruiting common labor and placing 1t
IN war plants.
Later, speakers who arc being arranged
for hv T. = Marsh. of the division OF con-
citation of the Department of Labor, who
Is himself a labor union leader. Will set
before the working men OF Wilmington
and vicinity the requirements which are
to hr IN effect.
Wilmington is the center for the actvl-
tics of the service not only for Delaware.
I
Wilmington Is superintendent for No :
OF the thirteen districts INTO which the
country is divided This district IS com
posed of Delaware and Pennsylvania
The branch office for Wilmington IS in
shc old Federal Building, nj King and
Sixth streets
MANY 81 the industries Of Wilmington
and its vicinity will I've affected by the
program which is now being maturcd
Private recruiting Of common labor alter
August by those engaged on war work
will be in direct defiance of the President 5
orders. Speedy punishment Will he mctcd
out to offenders through the powerful
organs at the command OF the government
in the War Industries Board, which con-
trolls raw materials and IS represented IN
the Department Of Labor ny tho War
Policies Board The employment service
is in the Department of Labor. In add
ton to the control thus afforded will he
the use of ''pitiless publicity. following q
full investigation OF the facts IN individual
cases.
No direct prohibition against private
recruiting Of skilled employees is now IN
effect. but regulations covering tins as
pect of the labor situation will be promui-
gated that are expected 10 check steal
ing and ''poaching.
NO INTERFERENCE TO RE TOLERATED.
Nor docs the prohibition cover the nom
essential industries II Is announced,
however, that in no case will interference
with the program for war labor by These
industries be tolerate ed Shortages which
cannot be filled BY the labor reserves on
hand, and listed through the Public Ser
vice Reserve, will be filled from the ranks
of those employed in non-cssental IN
dustres. first from the same state with the
war plant demanding 1t, and then II neces-
sarv from other States.
An announcement by the employment
service tells the reason why President VIII
son has called the attention OF the country
To the need for the centralized recruiting
and placement service. INTO whose control
he has put exclusive charge OF handling
and meeting so far as possible the labor
shortage in essential war work.
The war industries OF the country
are perilo,,slv short of men. the announce
ment reads. 1.-THE situation with regard TO
common labor Is especially critical. In
adequate as the immediate supply OF I'M
skilled labor is. from % TO 40 per cent of
il has been rendered potentially idle be-
cause 1t has been rushed from place TO
place BY the recruiting agents ne
reserves OF skilled workers likewise are
gone and the non-esSentlal industries must
be combed for men for the war industries.
War industries Of the United States
are at this moment short OF between
800 900 and 100000 common laborers.
The shortage IN skilled craftsmen Is al
most as acute The war plants OF Con-
necticut and Maryland alone are under
manned by 50 900 skilled workers One
OF the largest munitions plants, turning
out heavy calibre guns, Is short 1000
machinists The shortage OF workers ~
the coal-mining industry IS such that II is
Inperilling all other war production
Reduction of the large turnover of
labor due to unregulated private competi-
ton, the most efficient placing in various
localities of the supply OF labor available
and which. without regulation. NAV in
some cases run into a surplus and the
full utilization of the reserves brought
about by General Crowders recent
work or fight" order are included ia the
program. General CrOwder mas sent IN
strlctions to all local draft boards TO &C.
operate with the local branch offices Of
the service IN carrying our the require
ments of his order IN the manner no,t
advantageous to the war work
To HE'LL FARMEKs
In addition to nou-essential manu-
facturers. farmers, and war nanufactur-
ers. with less than 100 workers are not
placed In the restriction against privately
recruiting common labOr Farmers viii H.
one OF the classes Of essent o. producers 10
benefit from the y stem
In many sections. especially III the east
and south farms have been swept bare Of
labor by labor scouts Tins year agents
Will be prevented from going on the farms