Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-08-15
PROGRAM Of THE
STATE USE PLAN
Takes Place of Old Cntract
Labor System for State
Inmates and Patients
By Special Correspondent.

Aug. 1b-COmmiSSiOn-
er of Charities and Corrections Bur-
recommendations of the executive
committee of the Board of Charities
and corrections to govern the employ
ment of the inmates of the states in
stitutions and the products resulting
from their labor. The recommended
lions are to be adopted as the pro-
gram for h introduction of the state
use system, as the successor to the old
contract labor system now abolished.
Among the recommendations is one
calling for the employing of inmates
and patients upon work for the state
government or, its subdivisions and
o the United States until the market
is exhausted or until the effort be-
comes Improbable. The state board
is to avail itself of the provisions of
the law which permits the sale of sur
plus products from prison and other
Institutional labor upon the open mar
ket under such terms and conditions
that shall not compete unfairly with
the product of free labor: that is, "a
Dor of the unions and outside working
men, However. this is not to be done
until after all means of using the
goods and products for governmental
purposes have been exhausted.
In planning work and service pref
erence will be given to unskilled lines
of endeavor, because most of the in
mates and patients are without train
ing. Preference will be given to ag-
riculture, road building, ditching,
Draining. cleaning land, quarry work,
and other lines of endeavor that Will
permit as many to be employed nut
doors in the sunshine and in such
lines that will not bring the state use
system Into competition with highly
skilled free labor.
Industrial work for those who can
not go beyond the walls OF the state
prison will be OF a vocational and
industrial character, with the elinii-
nation of competition to free labor as
far as possible. The plans dc not call
for the Capitalization of clothing
making In one institution, unless
equally productive lines can be substi-
tuted for this work in the other In
st%itutions.
Following are the lines of worl,
laid down for state prison inmates,
who must be kept within It's walls:
Care and maintenance of institu.
ton; repair and reconstruction OF
shop buildings; automobile tag indus
try; shoe industry; construction Of new
mess hall in accordance with plans to
be furnished by the state architect o.
0 as possible; If it is agreeable to
all concerned, the printing plant is to
PRINT lOTHls ana reports which Rah-
way plant is unable to supply, but moi
to undertake to print legislative pro
cedure and other difficult work re.
curing a large expenditure for plant
and immediate service.
For state prison inmates outside OIL
the prison, preference will be given
Following occupations: From now un-
I'll freezing weather begins, road build
ing: Leesburg farm work, clearing
drainage, harvesting rops, sowing of
seed. up to 200 inmates transferred
at rate of about thirty per week. pro-
ductton of trap rock for highway de-
partment II the quarry can be leased
and crusher secured; employment of
as many prisoners as IAN be used al
Leesburg on the work of clearing land
during winter. 400 inmates II the adj
ditional temporary buildings can be
provided; that as many inmates In the
state prison and state reformatory q:
possible be employed In cooperation
with the state highway department as
soon as the frost is out of the ground
In the spring of 1919 upon construc-
tion and patrol work of the state
highways.