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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1918
Page
12
The text pledges that workers back the war effort to the last ditch by providing work, fighting for labor in factories, and supplying tools through the national labor clearing house with 500 offices in Washington to avoid disrupting essential war plants. It stresses that every minute lost costs aid to soldiers overseas.
Organized in February 1918 as a division of the U S Employment Service to mobilize and distribute farm labor. Operates through state and local machinery with a sewer in each laser under the State Director of the U S Public Service Reserve. Cooperates with state agricultural agencies postmasters state councils of defense and other groups to relieve farm labor shortage. Demonstrated efficiency this season by helping harvest the second largest wheat crop in the nation.
President Wilson urges employers in war work to stop recruiting unskilled labor except through the U S Employment Service after August 1 1918 and asks workers to voluntarily enlist. He stresses that national efficiency comes from spontaneous cooperation of a free people.
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