The evening leader., 1918-07-26

service of the department of labor,
and all independent recruiting of COM
mon labor by manufacturers having a
payroll of more than 100 men will be
diverted to the U. S. employment SER
vice. This is in accordance with the
decision of the War Labor Policies
board and approved by the president
on June II. (The War Labor Policies
board is composed of representatives
of the war, navy, and agricultural de-
partments, the shipping board and the
emergency fleet corporation, the war
industries board, and the food, fuel
and railroad admin. strations. It's
chairman is Felix Frankfurter, assist
ant to the secretary of labor.)
The above action was found neces-
sary to overcome a perilous shortage
OF unskilled labor in war industries.
This shortage was aggravated by an
almost universal practice of labor
stealing and poaching.
While the restrictions against the
private employment of labor apply on
ly 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 af skilled labor for war pro-
duction viii be subject to federal reg
ulations now being prepared.
This drastic change in the nations
labor program has been found neces-
sary in order TO protect the employer
and the employed, to conserve the la
Dor 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 a
week1, and to increase the production
of essentials.
While non-essential industries will be
drawn upon to supply the necessary
labor for war work, the withdrawal
will be conducted on an equitable ba-
sis in order to protect the individual
employer as much as possible.
Under the operating methods adopt
ed, the country has been divided into
thirteen federal districts, each district
in charge Of a superintendent of the
U. S. employment service. The states
within each district are in turn in
charge of a state director, who has
full control of the service within the
state.
In each community there is being
formed lcca, community labor board,
consisting of the U. S. employment
service, a representative of employers
and representative of the employed.
This board will have Jurisdiction over
recruiting and distributing labor in
it's locality.
A survey of the labor requirements
is being made, and in order that each
community may be fully protected,
rulings have been issued that no labor
shall be transported out of any COM
munity by the U. S. employment serv-
ice without the approval of the state
director; nor shall any labor be re-
moved by the service from one state
to another without the approval of the
U. S. employment service at Washing
ton. Every effort will be made to
discourage any movements from com
munity to community or state to state
by any other service.
This labor program has the approx
al of all producing departments of the
government, through the War Labor
Policies board.
1t must be understood that, farm
labor will be protected for the indus
trial program distinctly includes spe-
cial efforts to keep the farmer sup
piled with labor.
The requirement that unskilled la
Dor must be recruited through the sole
agency of the U. S. employment serv-
ice does not at present apply in the
following five cases:
1. Labor which is not directly OF
indirectly solicited.
2. Labor for railroads.
8. Farm labor-to be recruited in
accordance with existing arrangement
with department of agriculture
4. Labor for non-war work.
5. Labor for establishments whose
maximum force does not exceed one
hundred.
When the survey of labor require
ments has been made and the aggre
gate demand for unskilled labor i
war work is found, each stato viii b
assigned q quota, representing tn
coflnon labor 10 be drawn fi,a
among men engaged in non-esseatis
industries IN that state.
These state quotas viii in turn b
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