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Show oo ; ADVISORY COUNCIL LABOR PROGRAM WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. Six men and one woman were named by Sec-rotary Sec-rotary Wilson last night to form tho advisory council that will assist In tho administration of a. war labor program entrusted to tho dopartment of labor by tho president John Lind, former governor of Minnesota, Is chairman of the council and representative of the public and tho other members are: Representatives of employers: Wnd-dill Wnd-dill Catchings, president of the SIoss-Sheffield SIoss-Sheffield Steel and Iron company, Birmingham, Bir-mingham, Ala., and of tho Piatt Iron Works, Dayton, Ohio, (chairman of 1 the war committee of- the chamber of commerce of tho United States), and iA. A, Landon, general manager of the American Radiator company (vico nccsident- o tne aircralt production board and president of the Buffalo national chamber of commerce). Representatives of employes; John B. Lennon of Illinois, treasurer of the American Federation of Labor and John J. Casey, of Pennsylvania, former for-mer member of congress. Economic: Dr. L. C. Marshall of the University of Chicago. Representative of women: Agnes Nestor, of Chicago, president of the Woman's Trade Union league, member of the defense council's woman's committee com-mittee and former president of the Glove Workers' union. In a statement announcing tho ap- jjuinunems, aecreiary wnson saia: 'The popular demand for a national labor administrator was in effect granted today when Secretary of Labor Wilson assumed the administration administra-tion of a comprehensive war labor program pro-gram and appointed a national labor board of six men and one woman to be known as tho advisory council, to assist as-sist him. "This in accordance with the recent action of tho council of national defense, de-fense, with the approval of the president, presi-dent, in .placing in tho hands of the secretary of labor the formulation and execution of a war labor administration. administra-tion. It gives to the department of labor full power to deal with every phase of the war labor problem, including in-cluding the distribution, transportation, transporta-tion, housing and training of workers, and effects that centralization and unification uni-fication that has been sought by the government, labor, capital and the public. "Unity of action between the various var-ious departments is assured by the intention in-tention of Secretary Wilson to later increase the council by the appointment appoint-ment of representatives from the war, navy and agriculture departments and the shipping board. "The labor administrator and his advisory council will at once take in hand the questions of standardization of labor policies; the providing, distributing dis-tributing .and maintaining of a stable and adequate supply of workers; labor dilution and training; priority demands, de-mands, the adjustment of disputes and the safeguarding of employment, living and housing conditions. The advisory council will study all phases of tho problem, make recommendations and plans for additional machinery and supervise their execution. "The United States employment sorvice, now a separate bureau, is already al-ready being expanded to take care of the task of economic distribution of workers." oo |
