Sydney Laurence
COMMERCIAL AND PICTORIAL
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Masonic Building.
UNITED SMS
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secretary
of Labor Wilson Wednesday outlined
the plan formulated by the department
of labor for mobilizing the Nation’s
man power to supply the industries on
which the successful prosecution of
the war depends. Intending to profit
from the experience of England and
France, the department will seek to
extend its existing employment ma
chinery, so as to enable the govern
ment to obtain workmen in sufficient
numbers and without delay for muni
tions making, ship building, agricul
ture and other industries in which
continuous and high pressure produc
tion is essential to winning the war.
Secretary Wilson announced that a
beginning had been made by finding
and registering 15,000 skilled ship
builders who are needed at once as
a nucleus for the force of 75,000 re
quired for the construction of the vast
number of wooden ships wherewith
the government plans to overcome the
submarine menace.
“Locating skilled labor has been one
of the hardest problems confronting
the federal shipping board in con
nection with its plan to create the
great fleet of wooden freighters which
is necessary if we are to keep the
nations in the field against Germany
supplied with food and munitions,”
said Secretary Wilson.
“Responding to the request from
the shipping board are seaport and
every river or lake town in the coun
try where shipbuilding had been car
ried on within recent years. The work
of registering skilled workmen be
gan at once, and the results were tele
graphed to Washington. In many in
stances department agents were able
to locate skilled men who had
switched to other occupations be
cause of the decay or suspension of
local shipbuilding activities. This was
made possible by the agent’s famili
arity with local labor conditions.
“It is to extend this machinery and
speed it up to war requirements that
<we seek to expand our employment
machinery. The department has be
gun the organization of ag reat army
of boys under military age, and over
16, for work on the farms, or wher
ever they are needed. This work will
be directed independently of the em
ployment agencies, by William Edwin
Hall of Nw York.
“The department already has defi
nite commitments to furnish skilled
mechancs for government munition
plants, arsenals and navy yards, and
to supplement the army of skilled
farm laborers now being recruited by
the department of agriculture with
unskilled men to aid in harvesting the
crops. The registration of 15,000
shipwrights, calkers, fitters and car
penters is only a minor step in the
nation-wide mobilization of labor
necessary to a successful prosecution
of the war. Organization of the man
power in our vital industries at home
is just as necessary in this war as
the proper distribution and use of our
man power at the front. Our great
1 est contribution to the coming victory
will be an ample supply of food, muni
tions and supplies for the allied
armies and peoples, and of ships to
carry them.
“We can accomplish this only by
using our man power to the best pos
sible advantage, and this will require
machinery that does not now exist for
classifying and registering the na
tion’s workers and enrolling them for
the services they are best capable of
performing.
“The department of labor has
made * beginning with its recently
organized division of information in
the bureau of immigration. This di
vision has proved its efficiency up to
the limit of its resources, but it has
been seriously handicapped by lack of
adequate funds and of an organization
separate from that of the immigra
tion bureau, with which it should
have no connection. It is today the
only governmental agency in existence
for mobilizing our industrial man
power.
“Besides finding skilled men for our
shipyards, the department is today
called upon to furnish skilled
mechanics for our arsenals and gov
ernment yards, and it has an agree
ment with the department of agri
culture by which we are to provide
unskilled labor for cultivating the
land and harvesting the crops.
“Organization of boys over 16, and
the enlisting of men out of employ
ment during slack seasons in their
own trades, are other tasks already
undertaken. Within a few weeks there
I will be a demand for seamen to man
our augmented merchant fleet, and the
department is already co-operating
with the Seamen’s union in a plan to
meet this need.
‘‘The work is building up every day,
and every day the department is lo
cating new points to which labor must
be diverted in order to avoid waste.
“Prompt action is necessary If this
vital part of our defense program is to
be carried out in time to meet the
serious problems presented by the
shortage of labor. The department
has asked for an appropriation to
build up and extend the existing ma
chinery in order to meet demands now
being made upon it by other depart
ments in the vital interests of national
defense. The amount required, $750,
000, is small in view of the urgent
need for prompt action to provide
skilled men for the enterprise on
which the successful outcome of the
war depends.”
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SWEDEN SUFFERING
FROM SHORTAGES
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, May 8.—
While Sweden has not yet had to suf
fer as many privations from the war
as have certain other neutrals, condi
tions have reached a point where it is
unusual for a week to pass without
bringing some new restrictions, either
in the form of an expropriation by the
state of certain articles, or some other
method of reducing consumption.
Hides of all sorts were expropriated a
few days ago. A decree followed
shortly, forbidding the brewing until
September 80 next of malt drinks with
a greater volume of alcohol than 3.6
per cent. The latest restriction deals J
with gas and electricity.
With the beginning of the new sub- ‘
marine campaign Sweden’s coal sup-1
ply from England virtually stopped.1
It has now been found necessary to
compel a considerable reduction in i
consumption. To save coal the price
of gas and electricity has been in
creased. The police are empowerd to
rduce the lighting of signs and adver-|
tisements.
Street car companies must reduce
their traffic. The price of fuel wood,
which already had quadrupled since
the beginning of the war, has gone up
another notch. A cord cost $2.40 in
1914; it now costs $9.75. Railway
authorities are experimenting with
peat for fuel, and have decided to ask
the state to expropriate all peat bogs.
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WASHINGTON SHOES
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