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Show WILL ADJUST LABOR : SUPPLY TOWAR SPEEDS Council of National Defense De-fense Appoints Chief of Newly Created Section. WASHINGTON. Nov. 30. Preparations for greater governmental aid in adjusting adjust-ing labor supply to war needs were put under way today by the council of national na-tional defense with the appointment of L. C. Marshall, dean of the school of commerce and administration of the University Uni-versity of Chicago, as chief of a newly created section on industrial service. The new section will undertake preliminary prelim-inary invest i gat ion of the increasiriR number of labor problems arising In direr-1 ratio to 1 be growing demands for war supplies. This inquiry, it Is announced, an-nounced, will have four main objects: To determine present and probable future fu-ture demand for labor in war industries; To determine in connection with the priority committee of the war industries board the relative priorities of the labor demand; To arrange for the supplying of the demand de-mand through the department of labor or such other governmental or civilian agencies as can best meet the demand, and. To determine the needs for dilution of labor, including the introduction of women into industry, and to recommend policies to be followed in regard thereto. When the facts have been established in the case of labor shortage handicap- J ping any line of industry the council will look to representatives of the workers to supply available men. The section on in- u dustrial service will have functions com-parable com-parable to the duties of the war indus-I indus-I tries board, and will brin to the defense counsel digested information from all government gov-ernment df-partments regarding labor questions, but will not have power to take executive action. The American Federation of Labor has promised to co-operate snd will send officials of-ficials here to confer with the council, j E::cept In the case of shipyards and i railroads, it is said there has been no j serious phortHse of workers as yet In any of the industries directly related to military mili-tary operations, but as the army expands and. with it, the need for munitions and subsistence supplies, it Is expected tha t many factories will need hundreds of additional ad-ditional men. At the same time unemployment unem-ployment is expected to result in other lines of work not essential to the conduct con-duct of the war and which will be forced to curtail production by lack of materials and less purchasing of non-essentials by the public. It will be the task of tlu-section tlu-section on industrial service, aided by union official.-, to adjust the need for men to the men needing work. |