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Show WON TO IKE -HOUSIfiejlHECll WASHINGTON. Feb. 7. Entire control of the problem of housing- workers in all wax industries has been delegated to the department of labor after discuss of the question at recent cabinet meetings. A director of housing to have entire administrative charge of the programme will be announced within a few days by Secretary Wilson, as soon as he receives the acceptance of a prominent man already al-ready selected for the place. Assisting the administrator will be a policies board composed of his subordinates, subordi-nates, each dealing with a separate phase of the problem, legal, financial, construction, con-struction, real estate, transport, social, etc. On their advice he will decide the questions brought by each manufacturer, whether transportation shall be relied on to provide workers from near-by towns or whether houses shall be built at the site of the plant, and if the decision is to build, how extensive the construction shall be and of what material. Every precaution will be taken by the department of labor to safeguard the social so-cial and living conditions of workers who volunteer their industrial service. Housing construction at shipyards still will be supervised by the shipping board for the department, in agreement with the understanding reached at previous conferences. Appropriation of a separate fund of 550.000,000 for the board's needs already is pending in congress and it was deemed Inadvisable to attempt a change. Recruiting of shipbuilders tonight was said to be progressing satisfactorily. In I New York the names of 63.000 highly ! trained men were obtained from the census cen-sus and each has been asked to enroll. Illinois reported a registration of 9261 up to this morning: Washington reported 3000 and Ohio a large enrollment. |