Bisbee daily review., 1919-03-14
r ORCE. BY |NACT|QN .OF CONGRESS
Decrease In Service Effective
 March P, Director Gener-
 al Densmore Declares s Skeleton Organization Only
 to Be Retained As No Money Is Available Now
Bv Review Leased wlrel

WASHINGTON, March 23-Reduc- tion of so per cent in the force of the United States employment serv- ice effective March g was announced today by Director General Densmore- This was made necessary, it was ex- plained. by the failure of Congress to provide funds for continuance of the work. NIT. Densmore said the number of employment offices would be re- duced from 75O to 56, but that none of the work in direct connection with the return of soldiers and sailors to civilian employment would be dis continued.
 The reduction Of the employment service cuts it to the bone" said Nr. Densmore. The special work in placing engineers and other highly trained men. persons handicapped by old age and physical disability, voca- tional training for juveniles, the trade tests for skilled workers, and the training of employment examiners, must all cease March 9.
 'sThe maintenance Of a skeleton ad- ministrative organization in Washing ton and the States and the continu- ance of camp representatives. sol diers' bureaus and the clearances sys- tenn, together with 56 branch offices | in strategic industrial centers, will however. permit the directing of na | tional employment when Congress ap | rrouriafeS funds p
 Emergency Fund Gone
 Secretary Wilson, in a statement | tonight explaining the plan for re | taining 6 skeleton organization of the ! service, disclosed that the service could not draw on President Wilson; ! S1OO 900, 900 war emergency fund be cause practically all of 1t has beer spent or pledged
 After the urgency deficiency bll
 was Killed if the filibuster in the clos ing hours of the last session of th' 1 Senate, Secretary Wilson appealed tC
 the President He received this -e
 ply by radio from the presidentia
 ship. George Washington. at sea: Regret nothing so much as the dis
 continuance of the work of the sm
 pIoyment service bureau, but the fac
 is that including pledges made, m, fund is practically exhausted. Wha remains would not suffice to nIaiT
 tair the bureau, and to my grea grief see no escape from disbanc
 ment. I hope that it will be possi0l to keep a skeleton organization"
 To Be Reorganized
 Secretary Wilson announced tha . the employment service would be .C
 organized on a basis that would eI able it to utilize the voluntary ser ices of individuals and organization to continue the work of finding place l for returned soldiers and sailors. "Fortunately," said Secretary Wi son. the employment service in ca rving out the work instructed to il charge had organized 1875 comm, l pity boards. nearly 200 bureaus fC returning soldiers without expense
 the Government and had secured Ih
 cooperatiOn of the Council of N
 tjonal Defense. the State and nun
 cipal employment agencies, the fiy
 great welfare organizations in lOca ing work for demobilized soldiers ar
 war workers. The hearty cooperatlI 9 of these agencies has been assure V for the tiding over Of the interim u e til the recOnvening of Congress. Ina } much as the deficiency bill passed T k House unanimously and was una- D. mouslv reported by the apprOpri e tions committee in the Senate we al e confident that as soon as Consrel t. meets next funds will be available 1T continue the work which is beiI e done in finding positions for retu- a ing solieirs and civilian war wor