The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-03-30
WOMAN'S LAND ARMY
FILLS PEACETIME NEED
"lnrmcrcttc" Purposes To I'm sea
sOnnl Labor Shortage ON the
Farms of America.
CHANCE FOR JOBLESS GIRLS
VIII Not Hinder Employment Of lie.
turning Soldiers. for There Il
work Enough for an

NEW YORK, March 29-The
Woman Land Army Of America
which with $4,000 "farmcrettes"
steppc. into the breach created In
the farm labor situation last year by
the national draft has found peace
time need FOR its service and will
hold itsGf In readiness To meet any
demands which may be made
upon n
Affilation Of the wuman's land
army with the United states depart
mcnt Of labor through the farm
serNIrs division Of the employment
service has been effected. Tho plac-
/ ing Of women workers at tho dis
posnl OF farmers throughout the
country will be directed bv the em-
ployment service, while the camps
Themselves their policies and stand
ards, will bc controlled by the Volun-
teor organization, the womanS land
army, through its state divisions
The II states reporting "a good op,
portunity for women and AN intereN
In immediate work are oregon. Call
fornia. New Mexico. Michigan, Ohio,
North Carolina. Virginia Maryland
District OF Columbia. New Jersey
New York. Pennsylvania. Vermont
woman's land army was organized IN
80 states OF which 81 did active
work. This year in several well or.
RaniZcd states other than those emu.
merated the surplus OF labor at the
present time has made II seem ad-
visablc to the land army organization
to remain inactive for the present
holding Itself in readiness to do
whatever necessary when the surplus
| labor is absorbed IN industry.
Labor Camps Ia Iicip Farmer.
The land army undcr the dlrec.
| tion OF the employment service, VIII
! place units Of women workers In
rural Ccnters wherever there is Il de-
mnnd for them. n will he tho aim
| OF the land army to make Its units
! sclf.suppOrung. to train workers as
| fully rs possible, to standardiZe the
work more thoroughly 40 as 60 AS
sure To the workers both sound
| economic proposition and a very
carefully considered health program
/ with rigid physical examination
/ both before she enters the land army
| and at the close OF her service and
with living conditions prescribed ac'
| cording to the advice of experts.
/ Tho woman's land army IN going
| on for three main reasons said
| Mrs William II Hubert. national di-
/ rector Of the organization at her Of
| flee in New York city. These three
| reasons arc, first. to help, with wo-
man labor. To oyercune the annual
seasonal shortage OF farm labor In
the United States. which IN said by
the farm service division OF the en-
ployment service tn run from 1900
600 20 1000 900 hands, second. Ia
give TO women the opportunities for
agricultural work which hundreds
are seeking. as evidenced by the ap.
plications for such work which are
coming into our offices and those OF
| the department of agriculture and
| labor nj the average ef 40 n day Ia
say nothing Of those which are com
| ing into our state offices. third, and
incidentally, TO raise the standard OF
| living OF farm labor In general and
| to make rural life more attractive
both to the farmers family and to
the city dNellcr by Introducing "A SO
cial element which heretofore has
been sadly lacking"
Wnl Not Displacc Men.
There is no occasion" continued
! Mrs Hubert. FOR concern that the
women farm workers will take jobs
that returning soldiers should have
, There Is .work--more than enough
for every man and woman that can
bc induced to 20 10 the farm, even
were this country not forced by our
pledge Of 10000, 900 tons OF food tC
/ stricken Europe To produce more
food than ever before I'm our history
As a matter OF fact. however
many hundreds Of returning soldiers
arc refusing to return to thcir farm
jobs They prefer TO remain In the
/ city because they have decided &c
see n little life other hundreds, ar
rivinE home from overseas In the
middle OF the winter when life on
the farm was dormant, were com
/ PEELED TO seek employment In indus
( trial centers once caught I'm the
/ whirl of industry with It's attractions
| OF better wages and shorter hours
/ they are not easily dislodged, Stlll
other hundreds are yet overseas with
the army OF occupation. Officials OF
/ the employment service have said
/ specifically that 6,h00,oOO American
/ farms Will be undermanned for the
/ 1919 crop season To such an extent
/ that the food program for the world
will be imperiled.'