Bisbee daily review., 1918-06-18
PRESIDENT URGES COVER N MENT
 LABOR AGENCY
Scene at graduation of Annapolis class.
CBy Review Leased wire)


 WASHINGTON. June 17.-Employ- CTS engaged in war work are urged III a statement by President Wilson to- night to refrain after August l from recruiting unskilled labor in any man ner except through the United States employment service recently organ ized by the department of labor.
 The labor forces were called upon by the president ito respond loyally as heretofore to any calls issued by this agency for voluntary enlistment in essential industries"
 For more than a year." said the president statement it has been our bride that not our armies and navies only but our whole people is engaged in righteous war. We have said re- peatedly that industry plays an es- sentiai and honorable role nthis great struggle as do our military arma ments We all recognize the truth Of this but we must also see its neces- sary application-namely. that indus try doing a vital task for the nation, must receive the support and assist ance of the nation. We must recognize that it is a national demand almost a right of any one serving his country, whether employer or employe to know that his service is being used in the most effective manner possible. In the case of labor this wholesome desire las been not a little thwarted owing to the changed conditions whicL war has created in the labor market.
 There has been much confusion as to essential products. There has been ignorance of conditions-men have gone hundreds of miles in search of a job and wages which they might have found at their doors Emeploy- CTS holding government contracts of the highest importance have competed for workers with holders of similar contracts and even with the govern ment itself and have conducted eX- pensive campaigns for recruiting labor in sections where the supply of labor was already exhausted. California draws it's unsSiiled labor from as far east as Buffalo and New York, from as far west as the Mississippi. Thus labor has been induced to move fruit lessly from one place to another. coll gesting the railways and losing both. time and money.
 Such a cOnditiO his unfair alike to employer and emplOye. but most of all to the nation itself whose existence is threatened by any decrease in its pro- ductive hour 1t is obvious that this situation can be clarified and equal iEed by central agency-the United States employment service of the de- paTtment of labor. with the counsel of the war labor policies board as the voice of all the industrial agencies of the government. Such a central agency must have sole direction of all reLruit- ing of civilian workers in war work; and. m taking over this great respOns- ibility must at the same time have rOwer to assure to essential industries al. adequate supply of labor. even to from nou-esseutial production. It must also protect labor from insincere and thoughtless appeals made to it under the plea of patriotism and assure il that when it is asked to volunteer ir some priority industry, tn,
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 Therefore. [. Woodrow Wilson. president of the United States, solemn " urge all employers engaged in war work to refrain after August i. 1913. from recTutting unsklled labor in any manner except through this central agency. urge labor to respond as lCyally as heretofore to any call issued by this agency for voluntary enlist mcut in essential industry. And ark them both alike 10 remember that no sacrifice will have been in vain If we are able to prove beyond all question that the highest and best form of ef- ficiency is ;he sponetaneous co-oper3- ton of a free people"