Word: labor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Wilson's order for the reorganization of the Department of Labor means that the United States has learned one great lesson in the war. The Government now recognizes that this successful prosecution of the military campaign requires the mobilization, distribution and conservation of workers. It is a lesson we should have learned from the experience of other nations; indeed, we did have a value notion of the importance of intelligent supervision of labor when we entered the struggle. But the actual necessities of the case were not comprehended until our own errors and mistakes enforced them...
What the President has called on Secretary Wilson to do is tore-form his department and align it with the needs of the army, the navy, the nation. The new establishment will include a countrywide system of labor exchanges, all under one direction; a plan for the adequate training of workers, as agency to direct the supply of labor to the industries essential to the public welfare, instruments for the adjustment of disputes and machinery to safeguard workers at their tasks and in their homes...
Through the intervention of the Department of Labor it will be possible to prevent the waste that now occurs because men of one trade are idle when they might be employed at another, and because industries hampered by lack of workers are uniformed of the Market in which their wants could be met. The extravagant idleness characteristic of seasonal trades can easily be modified, if not done away with. There are may occupations now producing luxuries that can be diverted to necessaries with profit to employers, employees and the country...
...varied experience in practical affairs as well as in academic life. He believes in the minimum wage idea, and we could hardly expect a board to do less than be sympathetic with the purposes for which it was founded. With one member representing the manufacturers and another labor, the occupant of the place for which the Governor nominated Professor Ripley virtually shapes the policy of the board and so should believe in what it is doing. --Boston Herald...
...strong effort to have Government bonds purchased for permanent investment by the people, who are urged to pay for them out of past or future savings. Purchases thus made provide funds for the uses of the Government and, not being expended for useable merchandise, also effect a conservation of labor and material...