The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-28
NEW YORK DIVIDED
INTO IA WORK ZONES
Strict Enforcement Of New
Federal Labor Law to
Begin Saturday.
23 OFFICES NOW ARE OPEN
All Unskilled Workmen Must
Shoulder Rifles or Get Into
Essential Industries.

Fourteen community zones for the en-
forcement Of the Federal work or night
order will be in operation In New York
city by Saturday. Charles B. Barnes,
State Labor Superintendent, has COM
pleted his plans for the application OF
the system under which men who do
not take UP rifles for the country must
shoulder their shovels.
There are plenty Of Jobs seeking men,"
Mr.. Barnes said yesterday. but the men
are not seemingly seeking Jobs. The
situation in unskillcd labor remains ex-
tremely acute because 1t Is not generally
known among laborers OF this class
where they can apply"
Mr.. Barnes confesses that he does not
know just how the Federal Employment
Service is going to work out He says
that newspapers ought to print the list
Of offices where unskilled labor can
make application. but ct the same time
he declares that this sort Of labor does
not-read the papers regularly. Twenty
three branch offices have been opened
in various parts OF the city and four
more are to be opened soon.
Community Boards Planned.
No application of the essential indus
| tries rule has been possible up to the
present. Mr.. Barnes said, because of
the uncompleted state OF the working
orga animation The State and Federal
employment service bureaus are COOP
Grating to put working opportunities in
the way OF men affected by the national
! order. The plan now being completed
| calls for the organization OF community
boards to serve in each OF the fourteen
zones They have been appointed with
view to obtaining the cooperation of
labor and employers.
Unskilled labor only will be handled
| through the bureaus. The necessity for
getting the employment service in ef-
fective working order Is emphasized, Mr..
Barnes said. because OF the acute labor
| shortage in all parts of the country. The
community bureaus will place the man
and the Job close together. District Of
| fees are also to be established for the
erolment Of men in any kind of labos
| for which they are fitted. Employment
will be found in other lines for men who
are qualified for certain work by physi-
J cal defects.
The small number OF applications since
the work or fight" rule was issued Is
due largely to the fact that the I'M
skilled workers either have not heard OF
the regulations or do not understand
their application.
! Active Work Begins Saturday.
When the bureaus are in full working
| order. as they should be by Saturday
| the Governments requirements to III
essential industries will begin actively
1t was minated that there has beer
little effort to enforce the Federal regu
lations by law pending the full operation
| Of the employment service.
The offices where application may nov
be made are at the following addresses
20 East Twenty-second street. 70 Centr,
street. 1875 Clinton street, Forty-seventl
street and Third avenue. Eighty-sixtl
street and Lexington avenue, $40 Hud
son street, 240 West Twenty-third street
liz West Forty-sixth street, 139th stree
and Seventh avenue. % Cooper Square
21l Bowery. 142 Bowery. 365 East 1891
street and SIS fremont avenue.
In Brooklyn the offices are at 253
Decatur avenue. $40 Jay street, II
Flatbush avenue. 1853 Atlantic avenue
Fifty-second street and Third avenue
In Queens. at II Hunter avenue. Lon
Island City. In Richmond. at 9 Unio
avenue. Mariners Harbor. Staten Island
Employers are asked to communicat
with these offices when they have open
ings for unskilled workers.