VIII. LABOR MARKET
"1. Extension of existing systems of public employment bureaus to aid in the intelligent distribution of labor throughout the country.
IX. ADMINISTRATION OF LABOR LAWS
"1. Increased appropriations for enlarged staffs of inspectors to enforce labor legislation.
"2. Representation of employees, employers, and the public on joint councils for coöperating elsewhere with the labor departments in drafting and enforcing necessary regulations to put the foregoing principles into full effect."
ORGANIZING LABOR FOR WAR WORK
Supplying the man power for industrial action during the war was a really more complicated task than drafting men for military service. In the earlier period of American participation labor was distributed more or less according to the law of supply and demand. The unequal distribution of workers became a grave problem. To meet this the United States Employment Service of the Department of Labor took over the supply of war industries with common labor, and all independent recruiting of labor by manufacturers having a pay roll of more than a hundred men was discontinued.
In the Heart of the Bethlehem Steel Plant
H. E. Coffin, Chairman on Industrial Preparedness of the Council of National Defence, described the conflict as a war of munitions, of factories, of producing powers, of sweating men and women workers. In the plant sketched above, 26,000 men toiled and sweated during the war to make munitions for our troops overseas.