The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-27
All Large Industries Must
Get Men Through Agencies
of the Government
DRASTIC CHANGE
IN NATIONS PROGRAM

by the Almost Universal Practice of
Labor Stealing and Poaching
Protect Farm Work.
MONTPELIER, July 27.-On Au-
gust LIST, the supplying of war indus
tries with common labor will be cen
tralized in the United States employ
ment service of the department of la
Dor, and all Independent recruiting of
common labor by war industry manu-
facturers having payroll of more than
100 men will be diverted to the United
States employment service. This is
in accordance with the decision of the
war labor policies board and approved
by the president June 18th, says the
state committee of public safety.
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 the restrictions against the
private employment of labor apply on
| " to common labor at the present time,
these restrictions viii, as soon as pos
sible, be extended 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 nation s
labor program has been found neees-
sary in order to protect the employer
and the employed, to conserve the la
Dor supply of the communities and to
cut down unnecessary and expensive
labor turnover and to increase the
production of essentials. While nom
Essential industries will be drawn upon
to supply the necessary labor Tor war
work. the withdrawal will be conduct
ed on an equitable basis in order to
protect the individual employer as
much as possible.
| Under the operating methods adopt
ed, the country has been divided into
T3 feddrar districts, each district IN
charge of "A superintendent of the Unit.
ed States 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 local community labor board
consisting of a representative of thu
United States employment service, f;
representative of employers and a rep
resentative of the employed Thi'
board will have jurisdiction over re
cruiting and distributing labor in it
|, locality.
!, A survey of the labor requirement
is being made, and in order that eacl
community may be fully protected, rul
ings have been issued that no Iabo
: shall be transported out of any com
, munity by the United States employ
: ment service without the approval o
: the state director; nor shall any labo
be removed by the service from on
state to another without the approva
of the United States employment serv
ice at Washington. Every effort vii
be made to discourage any movement
from community to community or stat
S to state by any other service.
- ms ittbol pug uoS iht oiPioN q
J of all producing departments of th
g government, through the war labo
q policies board.
1t must be understood that farm Ii
u Dor will be protected, for the indus
:, trial program distinctly includes spt
. cial efforts to keep the farmers SUI
> piled with labor.
II The requirement that unskilled labC
must be recruited through the sol
| agency of the United States employ
ment services does not at present appl
| III the following eases:
III l. Labor which is not directly, {
| Indirectly solicited.
III 2. Labor for the railroads.
- g. Farm labor-to be recruited in a
cordance with existing arrangemel
with department of agriculture.
II f. Labor for non-war work.
II ). Labor for establishments who's
maximum force does not exceed OF
hundred.
When the survey of labor requir
ments has been made and the aggr
gate demand for unskilled labor
war work is found, each state will
iOoidt thC wi
mon labor to be drawn from amor
men engaged in non-essential indu
tries in that state.
These state quotas will in turn
distributed among localities. With
each locality, employers in non-w
work, including those who are on
/ partially in war work, will be asked
distribute the local quotas from tin
to time amongst themselves. Quot
by localities and individuals are to
accepted as readily as they are f
Liberty loan and Red Cross campaign
: This plan of labor is protection f
~ all communities.
or The object is to keep any commu
M ity from being drained of labor, al
90 to use local supply, as far as possib
n for local demand. The situation, ho'
., ever, is such that in certain eases sol