The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-07-25
LABOR MOBILIZATION
BEGINS AUGUST lST.
ACTION NECESSARY TO OVER
COME SERIOUS SHORTAGE
OF UNSKILLED LABOR.
FARMERS TO BE PROTECTED.
SPECIAL EFFORTS WILL KEEP
HIM SUPPLIED WITH RIGHT
KIND OF LABOR.

"a sA1SAf1h GHfoh1O WILL AGLA
HIM SUPPLIED WITH RIGHT
KIND OF LABOR.
On August 1, the supplying of war
industries with common labor will be
centralized in the U. S. Employment
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
Service. 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
Departments, the Shipping Board and
the Emergency Fleet Corporation, the
War Industries Bofard, and the Food,
Fuel, and Railroad Administrations.
Its chairman is Felix Frankfurter,
Assistant to the Secretary of Labor
The above action was found neces-
sary to overcome perilous shortage
of unskilled labor in war industries.
This shortage was aggravated by an
almost universal practice of labor
stealing and poaching.
While restrictions against the priv
ate employment of labor apply only
to common labor at the present time,
these restrictions will, as soon as pos
sible, be etended to include skilled
labor. In the meantime, recruiting of
skilled labor for war production will
be subject to federal regulations 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
labor 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
week. and to increase the production
Of essentials.
While non-essential industries will
be drawn upon to supply the neces-
sary labor for war work, the with
drawal will be conducted on an equit-
able basis in order to protect the in
dividnal employer as much as pos
sible.
Under the operating methods adopt
ed, the country has been divided into
thirteen federal districts, each dis
trict in charge of a superintendent of
the U. S. Employment Service. The
States within each district are in turn
in charge of State Director, who has
full control of the service within his
State.
In each community there is being
formed a local community labor
board consisting of representative of
the u. S. Employment Service, a re-
preventative of employers and a re-
preventative of the employed. This
board will have jurisdiction over re-
cruiting and distributing labor in its
locality. s.
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 Ser
vice 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
Washington. Every effort will be
made to discourage any movements
from community 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 in
dustrial program distinctly includes
special efforts to keep the farmer
supplied with labor.
The requirement that unskilled la
Dor must be recruited through the sole
agency of the U. S. Employment
Service does not at present apply in
the following five cases:
/. Labor which is not directly or
indirectly solicited.
2. Labor for the railroads.
3. Farm labor-tD be recruited in
accordance with existing arrangement
with Department of Agriculture.
A. 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 in war
work is found, each State will be as