Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1919-02-03
COMMUNITY LABOR BOARD
HAS PROBLEM IN CITY

At the regular meeting Of the COM
munity labor board of district No. 10
Of the United States employment SER
vice, at the United States employment
office at % ShetucEet street, every
member af the board, which now con-
sists of Miss Ida Galley, Mrs. Charles
c Gildersleeve. jeremiah Angel, E.
f. Won Hornig, and Allyn L. Brown,
chairman, was present. Mr. Won Hor-
mig has been selected as the represen-
tative OF employers upon the board
| in the place u Herbert r. Brarche
resigned.
In connection with the United States
employment service there is COM
munity labor board of five members
consisting of two men, one represent
! ing the employees and the other en-
ployers, and two women, one repre-
| senting employees and the other mana
gers or employers and the chairman
representing the federal government.
| In Connecticut there are fCu"' cen of
these community labor boa rs, the
state being divided into fourteen dis
| tTiCts, and the Tenth district COM
prises the towns in the northern half
Of New London county. There are in
all thirteen employment Offices of the
| United States service in The state OF
| Connecticut
The problem which confronts the
community labor board, as the local
agency of the federal employment ser
vice, is quite the reverse of that which
existed last summer at the time when
the board were created. At that time
the community board started in to ex-
anime determine how many employees
the industries engaged upon no war
work should give up to engage upon
war work. A census of the local dis
trict was taken to furnish the neces-
sary information for passing upon this
question, but before any ruling had
been made the signing Of the armis-
tice caused such a change in condf-
tons that since that time there has
been no need for work of this nature
by the community board.
The problem NOW is not to find peo-
T'le to fill the jobs. but to find Jobs
for people who are without employ
ment. In this connection the local
board has been impressed by orders
from the federal director at Wash
iagton to the effect that the function
Of the community labor board is quite
as important if not even more fmpor-
tant under the present conditions at
tending rehabilitation and after de-
mobilization, as it was when the war
was still on.
For a number of weeks past the su-
perintendent of the United States en-
ployment office in this city, Gilbert S
Raymond. has been making regular
reports of the number of acquisitions
for help received in various lines OF
work, and of the number of registra-
tons of people seeking employment
in various lines of work. The chair
man of the community labor board
for this district has been sendine
weekly kilograms 20 the war industries
board at Washington reporting the
number of employees at work in a Sc
lected representative group of indus
tries in this district on each Satur-
day. and also the number expected t
be employed by the same industries
on the succeeding Saturday. This in
= formation is laid before the board
which has the question of cance1la
ton Of war contracts to determine
ard with this information as to tht
labor situation in each distric
throughout the country is enabled II
act more intelligentlv as to TIE effec
of proposed cancellation. the idea be
ing that where there is a large mum
her of unemployed workers, cancella
| ton of government contracts Will b.
deferred, and that where there is
shortage of labor such cancellation vii