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Show WAR INDUSTRIES ARE SHORT OF MEN Labor Must Be Put Where It Will Do the Most Good, Declare Officials. WASHINGTON, June 14. Heads of federal employment service frrm all states here attending1 the national war labor conference, were told today by department depart-ment of labor officials that war Industries Indus-tries are perilously short of men, and that there must 1j no temporizing In handling the task of putting labor where It will do the most go'id. ( Nathan A. Smyth, in charge of the unskilled labor ert on, outlined plans for recognition of ui,. Uilled labor, which will be taken over exclusively b the service after July 15. There will be an agent of the service in every county and township, to aid the 400 branch offices throughout the country. In industrial com muni i ieH, boards representing employers em-ployers and employees will be organized to play a part in the work. Iouls F. Post, assistant secretary of labor, told the conference that by bringing bring-ing labor and capital together the service was doing much toward eliminating inequalities. in-equalities. "By the time the peace treaty is signed, " he said, "the old division between be-tween employers and employees as a distinct dis-tinct class will have passed away." |