Show Our Labor Problem W 77 an apparent shortage c of oC men in the f 7 indu industries trie cl classed a 5 11 as essential to lo the conduct of the thc war the United States labor lubor department has completed com corn ed plans for tile the transfer of or manpower from useless t te occupations The country countr can easily adapt I It it itself to this change rIft but due clue care must be he exercised in the because mint t be the procedure an cy eye YC mn kept to future The real re labor labur problem will come at the end cud of tho tl war war when military activities must take a sudden slump and thousands of of men must again a nin find other forms ms of employment Vc We e arc are losing osin losin sight of the fu fu- fu fu 1 ture tore England and Canada arc are making great pre preparations para for the reconstruction I Military establishments should hould be so distributed that I t tire transfers rs of today will not leave lenye congested cong districts district of ot idleness at the close of the war There is useful t ork ork somewhere in in the United States at this hour for e even ex x bodied able man hut but th the demand is not going goin to tobe be so SG brisk at nt the tue close chose of tho the war We c must avoid I. I congestion conc tion if we desire to have the thc problems of shared e equally by all parts of the country The fhe The apparent labor Jabor shortage is indicative of the tile then n teed ed for a n higher age limit in the tile select selective c service laws which would enable the government o to better shift men I another Tile The classifications in from one occupation to oue eliminate the tile objections ons which were first raised I I tho tio draft a ace ac e being higher than 31 years e rs The Tile government government government govern govern- ment has complete control over ocr the thc draft raft men as ns it ec seeks ks' ks to fill the tile essential occupations hut blit it is under tinder a I handicap when it seeks to transfer men who arc are not I subject to the provisions of the draft The higher her draft I age ac pro provide dc the tile men desired for fot the military I cr cl but it would insure the of industrial success our t armies I |