New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12

nomic laws which human effort doesn't
change-but l think prices will fall first, so
that the workingman's dollar will be worth
more when he gets fewer in the pay enve-
lope. On January l the government abol-
lshes all priority orders and releases all raw
materials. Already steel and copper and
other materials are coming down. The
shelves of the country are so nearly bare
and the line between manufacturer and con-
sumner so direct because of the absence of
reserve stocks that there is bound to be
plenty of work. Of course, big wages have
been paid in munitions and other war plants
and in shipyards, but in numerous trades
wages haven't risen to point so far be-
yond where they can be maintained Bonuses
and overtime were responsible for fat pay
envelopes in many cases and the armistice
did away with them, to great extent.
shortly we shall get our last Liberty
loan out of the way and financial affairs will
settle down. There is no reason for any
thing but optimism, and we find only that
anywhere. The Liberty bond issues have
made us, if not nation of savers, at least
nation which includes great many more
savers than ever before, which is a fact Of
no small moment just now"
The community labor boards which work
with the Employment Service in handling
the labor situation continued just as be-
fore the armistice. The state is divided
into districts and the board for each dis
trict keeps in constant touch with the New
York office Of the service and with Wash
lngton The Community Labor Board for
New York City and vicinity is headed by
Alfred e. Marling, president OF the New
York Chamber of Commerce. and the other
members are L. H. Outerbridge former
president of the Chamber of Commerce:
William Felowes Morgan, president of the
New York Merchants Association; James D.
Davis, president of the Brooklyn Chamber Of
Commerce, and George Behrens, Robert T.
Brindell and James J. Collins, the last three
being representatives of labor
There can be few buster places than the
Offices OF the United States Employment
Service at 400 Fifth Avenue. In one depart
ment is the clearing house through which
go the cards of all the discharged soldiers
and sailors who wish to work in New York
vicinity as well as those who register
in one Of the branch Offices of the service
within the New York district and don't
specify where they would like to go, II
they do specify certain city or state the
card is forwarded direct to the office of the
service there by the branch Office which re-
ceives the registration.
Another department is concerned with the
cards Of other workers from any part of
the country who wish to come into the terri
tory covered by the New York office. Be-
mr. aio4tn a
told to stay where 'hey were unless en-
gagged in non-esgcntial work, and do the big.
gcst days work they could, but Uncle Sam
has removed the ban on private labor re-
cruting and permits the worker to change
as he likes now.
In another part Of the Offices clerks are
preparing bulletins Of the labor needs Of
manufacturers in New York City and up-
state, AZ well as receiving from Washing
ton bulletins Of labor requirements else
where over the country and preparing TO
shift applicants for jobs to the localities