Report of Proceedings of the National War Labor Conference: Washington, June 13-15, 1918 |
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Page 19 - The purpose of the Department of Labor shall be to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment.
Page 91 - All recruiting of industrial labor for public or private work connected with the war shall be conducted through or in accordance with methods authorized by the United States Employment Service.
Page 91 - Board, calculated to prevent the taking of men needed in other war industries or on the farms. 4. All Government departments and private employers engaged in war work should furnish to the United States Employment Service a complete statement of their needs for unskilled labor and make such supplementary reports as may be requested of them. All the Government departments represented on the War Labor Policies Board should assist in every way in securing such information. 5. An immediate campaign to...
Page 74 - They have presented those facts fairly to the Secretary of War, to the Secretary of the Navy and to the Public Works Administration.
Page 88 - ... efforts and for your cooperation during the time that we were having difficulty in getting the Missouri Public Service Corp. to carry out commitments to extend electric service to a community which had been left without service, temporarily at least, as a result of actions and promises on their part. If at any time, I can be of service to you, I would welcome the opportunity. Very truly yours, WM ANDERSON.
Page 6 - ... from a given amount of labor, having due regard to the health, safety, opportunities for rest, recreation, and improvement of the workers, for if there is nothing produced there will be nothing to divide; if there is a large amount produced there will be a large amount to divide. The interests of the employer and the employee...
Page 90 - ... done largely at haphazard. A dispensable industry competes for the labor of an essential plant ; instances are frequent where one Government project secures men at the expense of another. As a result, the labor turnover is alarmingly great, with a loss in war efficiency which we cannot afford. Not the least of the consequences of the existing situation is its effect upon the morale of workers in the restlessness which it produces and even encourages. These are largely the natural consequences...
Page 70 - The number of unemployed varied in different periods, but there was always a condition existing where the niiin around the corner needed some repairs for his house and the carpenter around the corner needed the work, and neither knew of the needs of the other because there was no clearing house, To relieve that condition so far as it affected the immigrant there was placed in our immigration law a section creating a division the duty of which would be to find opportunities for the immigrant, and...
Page 77 - ... conducted by this division has been discussed elsewhere. The division was created to study conditions, prepare plans, diagnose needs, and cooperate with other divisions of the service in matters touching farm labor problems. It used as the chief means of contact with the country, the official machinery of the United States Employment Service, the United States Public Service Reserve, and the United States Boys
Page 7 - Commission; assistant to the Secretary of Labor; and chairman of the War Labor Policies Board.