The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-01-25
FRANCE HAS MORE
MEN THAN JOBS
Returning army to Civil Life
| Brings Problems Unlike
! Ifipse in U. S. FL
WORKSHOPS ARE WIPED OUT
Labor ReadjuEtment is Subject Of
Greater Importance in Francs
Than In Any Other Bel
liperent Country.

4 Fai.ig.-Readjustm Of labor after
/! disqualification looms RS the biggest
ufter-the-war question in France.
4 A committee OF members Of the
French chamber of deputies has OFF,
cially asked the government what
Eteps toward labor reconstruction IRE
to be taken.
Appointment Of commission to
study the question has jnEt been Ed
nounced.
Labor reimbursement lis a subject OF
greater Importance in France than in
any other belligerent country-outside
Of Belgium, perhaps-because so many
factories and commercial enterprises
have been destroyed by the war.
Workshops Are Wiped Out.
When the soldiers are demobilized
a great number win not be able to
return to the work in which they were
engaged before the war Their wsrk.
shops have been wiped out.
Many others who have been EN-.
ployed On war work In munitions
plants will be thrown ont of employ.
Inent. For such concerns Will have to
shut down while they adapt them.
selves, many Of them slowly, to 4
peace-time line Of manufa cture.
Another class Of men, who have
been away at the front four years,
will find no places open because they
have been replaced by other labor
women, in numerous cases.
The government faces the problems
Of having more men On its hands than
it has jobs. A quick solution is i'm.
perative. according to the view of
prominent labor leaders.
"Every other country except France
has thought about this matter" said
Emmanuel Brousse, a French deputy
and member Of the newly appointed
labor adjustment commission.
Britain has been working on the
labor question for a long time. TWEEN.
ty.fye commissions composed. of spe-
cialists in various lines have prepared
q solution. ri ET"+& ~ g." @ta'1..
= "Germany had its after-war program
definitely mapped out. First the men
who In clvi! life were engaged in such
occupations as technical, commercial,
industrial, financial and transport
were to be freed from army service.
Other kinds OF workmen were to be
dernobilized successfully. -.
France must not lose q moment In
mapping out its, labor readjustment
plan. Otherwise there will be q social
catastrOphe."f ab,. .Hv ttavG ggS
III Labor leaders In France point also
to the preparations In America for
distributing farming land to lelnobil.
lied soldiers. But they remark that
this method Of finding something for
the ex-soldier to do is closed to the
Land Cultivated 'ntensiveIy.
France has no vast unoccupied lands
as the United States has, except in its
northern African colonies. All of
France is cultivated intensively, leav-
ing none for reclamation by demobil.
lied, soldiers. And It is calculated
lllul 1c" Will whit ~ leUVc their OVID
country for the purpose Of colonial.
ton. A 50. ~. @.,
G. H. Roberts, British minister of
labor, recently discussed this subject
before an audience of British soldiers
at the British Army and Navy Leave
club il Paris.VIssl 1&IaWbi
a@ The British minister said Temporal.
Ily unemployment difficulties of demo.
billzed soldiers would be met by q
free Out.of-work donation covering a
period Of ~ months after discharge.
This will be additional to the months
furlough given each man on his dis.
charge, during which time pay and al.
towances are to bs continued.
The skilled workman among British
soldiers, Roberts said, is safeguarded
BY the munitions. of war act, giving
him the assurance of reinstatement in
employment. Committees, he said
would establish employment agencies
In all cities and everything possible
would be done to- make labor rcsettie
ment ~ speedy and smooth as posi-.
ble