The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1918-09-30
PUBLICITY GIVEN
TO THE PUBLIC BY
LABOR BOARD HEAD
Superintendent Ferd. Schmutzler Sub
mits Instructions Received From
Madison As To What Is Ex-
pected of Employers.

Ferd. Schmhzler, superintendent
Of the Community Labor Board just or
ganized in Watertown for this dis
trict of Wisconsin under federal regu.
lations, has received from the depart
ment Of labor, United States Employ
ment Service at Madison, the inform
alton for the public found printed be-
low.
The board will comprise three mem
bers who in turn will select chair
man. Eugene H. Killian has been ap-
pointed on the board and there is still
one member to be recommended by
the manufacturers.
The Instructions.
"The community labor boards have
supervision over the recruiting and
distribution of labor in their COM
munities and the transfer of men for
war work from industries which are
not directly connected with the prose
ton of recruiting, distribution and
transfer is conducted by the local Of
fees and agents Of the Employment
Service.
The United States Employment Ser
vice counts upon the voluntary CO.
operation of employers and employees
to carry out it's plans and to secure
men needed for war work from nom
war work. 1t will not call upon the
War Industries Board to use compul-
sion through control of fuel, mater
ials, and transportation unless Obliged
to do so.
The power to determine priority
among industries and to close up non
essential industries by shutting off
supplies rests with the War Industries
Board.
The United States Employment Ser
vice will follow the priorities deter
mined by the priorities board of the
War Industries Board. The Employ
ment Service, through all it's agencies,
will keep in systematic and constant
cooperation with the other divisions
OF the government concerned with the
man power and material program of
the government.
1t is within the province of each
Community Labor Board to list those
non-war industries in it's community
which will first be called upon to con-
tribute men to war work.
This does not mean that such in
dustries will be compelled to close up
or to discharge their male employees
at once, but that with as much fair
ness as is possible and with as much
speed as may be necessary to meet
the national emergency, they will re-
lease male workers.
In this situation, it is obviously
tinuing to sell candy, cigars, and like
articles, to be doing work in shops
and stores which might with reason
able effort on the part of the employ
ers, be intrusted to women, and to be
dancing attendance in clubs, barber
shops, soft drink establishments,
bowling alleys, dancing academies and
elsewhere.
Our war industries are suffering
severely for lack of skilled mechan-
cs. 1t therefore becomes a burden
upon the conscience of every person
who employs Chauffeur to determine
whether such employment is neces-
sary or merely for the qualification OF
personal pleasure.
Moreover, every owner of an auto
mobile should realize that every time
he spends SIS for automobile accessor-
les, supplies or repairs, he is in eff
feet determining whether working
energies of the country equivalent tc
about a days labor of one man shall
be devoted to winning the war or tc
his own personal uses.
The time has come when, from the
standpoint of conservation of labor
we must all of us limit our expenses
to those things which are essential