Arizona republican., 1918-08-12
GREAT WAR SHON WASTE If LABOR' C0M|NG T0 C|TY|N NEEDLESS WAY.
 LIN NNOvEMBER11 COULD LOSE WAR
United States War Labor
 Turnover Equal to Giving
 the Kaiser 20 Divisions of Soldiers for His Army

Not long ago a large war plant in need of mechanics sent out one of it's recruiting agents with blanket or ders to get them. He did.
 He went into the mines that fur nished that very plant with coal and took number of it's best mechanics. The mines were so crippled that the plant suffered from lack of coal. And about the time the agent was hiring away the mines employees, non-es- sential plant, nearer to the war plant than the mines, voluntarily closed down and released a number of the kind of workers that were needed by the essential enterprise
 Aiding the Kaiser
 This is not a hypothetical case, but one of thousands of instancets of in dustrial demoralization that have oc- cured in our war industries during the past year. They contribute to a labor turnover that has become in- tolerable; a turnover that would be equivalent to increasing the available labor supply by 15 per cent.
 Our labor turnover today i5 equal to presenting the kaiser with twenty divi- sions of shock troops.
 No employers and workers are more patriotic than those of America, yet
 
 ser and his lieutenants, who are past masters in industrial organization and the conservation of industrial man power.
 To End This Waste
 It IS the task of the United States Employment Service to reduce this turnover. The production departments of the government will sec to it that many Of the conditions contributing to it, such as independent labor recruit ing and eXtravagant advertising. are eliminated. Had the employment serv- ice been utilized in case of the plant cited above, the needed mechanics could have been obtained without hurting the mining operation. The service would have known of the ces- sation of the non-War enterprise and of the coming release of the skilled workers.
 At a time when our maximum war production is not realized through lack of unskilled and certain classes of skilled labor, when great new war in- dustries are about to start. and when combing of the country for new re- cruits for the industrial army has just begun, it would be criminal for us were we to fail to economize in the man-power already er-aScd in essen- tial production.
 Consider Its Effect During the war emergency no em- ployment transaction should be made except with a view to it's effect upon production as a whole. The employer should not hire without consulting the employment service, and the employees should not seek employment without similar consultation with the common | employment medium.
 1 The employer with war business. who is told by the government that he must deliver his material at a certain | time, is entitled. as d right, to a gov ernment agency that will help supply him with the labor necessary to ensure the fulfillment of his contract with out hurting other war industries.
 The employe, as his right, is entitled t" government agency. which will tell him where he can find job for which he is qualified and give maximum service in his countdys industriaal army.
 German Efficiency
 Germany's ability to withstand the allies has been fundamentally due to her industrial organization. We must match her efficiency and the best of her organization. Germany would not countenance independent labor recruit ing and wasteful labor turnover even before the war. England soon learned the necessity of a central employment system operated by the government.
 Our machinery is now ready. backed by all prc"Hction agencies represented on the War Policies Board But the machine cannot function so as 10 yield a maximum of benefit to the nation. unless it is driven by the whole hearted and unselfish spirit of bott , emplONnrS and en1nlnNeS