Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1919-04-17
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from Labor Organizations, Societiesa
and Commercial Agencies.

Back Of our front line trenches stooo
the guns; back OF the guns stood Tie
munitions factories; anu back OF the
munitions factories stood the ml-
Mons OIL Americans that are lncludeu
IN the magic word, Labor.
hight or ten laborers We're, required
to Keep one fighter going: iney are
the ones who passed the buckets OF
water to the flremen TO throw on the
burning world. Had there been any
break IN the chain OF hands, the blaze
would have gotten beyond control.
Even SO 1T is with our battles OF
peace. Our factories cannot. work,
our markets cannot move goods, our
smps cannot carry the production q
America to the tour corners OF the
earth, unless the great army OF Labor
is properly mobilized. It's passing
buckets at fire again. There must
De enough men in every line, but not
100 many. ..,.....
Through the United States Employ
ment Service, our industry was drawn
up in battle array to meet the Ger
man during the war OF explosives.
Through the same United States. En-
ployment Service, the forces Of Indus
Try are now being re-arranged to meet
the crisis Of the world war Of trade
Where there is a surplus of labor,
unrest and hungrer and ~Bolshevism
are sure to come, and production will
cease. Look at Russia. Where
there is shortage, production
will be interrupted and may cease en-
tirely. 1t is the purpose Of the
United States Employment Service to
balance surplus with shortage and pro-
duce a uniform economic condition
throughout the country; and it is the
only agency-national, public or pri-
vate-that is able to re-distribute into
peaceful occupations, the six or eight
million men who were concentrated
during a few short, feverish' months,
into combatant service, the manufac-
ture Of munitions and kindred occu-
pations. '''' -" go z'2
), Ilsu Tie work of industrial leA,4-
pllallon Mas ~ ILs AeignL, l.4cAc .>..--~
.. KepuDilcan IlnDuster~ anu Tie ;t
preparation OF Inc UAlIeu toAIes Liz
ployment Service 1:nled OF aoopIlon'
along with mucn Orner neeueu IegIs-
latlon. 1t Will unquestlonaDiy De re-
stored at he extra session or coil-
yress and Will become available July
l.. But to tide over these intervening
months, the Service had to cut to a
skeleton organization.
skeleton! That's overstating It..
70 the mustard seed OF posslniIty,
rather. The government had enough
money to retain only 81 offices In all
the United States-and they operat-
ing with a personnel barely large
enough to open and close the doors
and read the mail!
But the people Of the United States
knew the Employment Service was
good, and through personal subscrp-
lions, the efforts Of war work and la
Dor organizations, and with the aid Of
Chambers of Commerce, and municipal
and state governments, funds have
pene raised sufficient to maintain
some 400 offices OF the Service until
the appropriation is restored.
And the work Of returning wal
workers and soldiers to industry goes
on apace. The national machine thus
threatened to stall, is now running
smoothly. Congress will throw it in
to high gear when it restores the ap-
preparation.
In no state has there been 2 more
thorough cooperation between federal
authorities and local interests, and in
in none has the victory for the United
States Employment Service been
cleaner cut than in Mississippi. And
Mississippi's Employment Service may
well be taken for model.
It is well worth talking about.
When the orders came to cut early
in March, there was only enough mon
ey to maintain in Mississippi the Of.
flee of the local examiner at Meridian
and the office of the Federal Direc'
tor. established at the safna place,
But we find offices today 10 Missis
sippi at Greenville. NatcHez EdlfpeFt
Meridian, jackson, VicksSdIg, fHY}l!
Springs, West Point, Ccfintd, Glasks
dale and Camp Shelby.
The funds to maintain them hay'
been raised as follows: $4,000 BY tn
Council Of Defneses 900 by TIE, BE Re!
Cross; $1,000 by labor organizations
$4,000 by miscellaneous cQntE6atlons
This. with the governments allot
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