The Hershey Press 1918-08-01

              Will Have Great Effect Upon the ln-dustrial
Life of the Nation
On August 1, the supplying of war in-dustries
with common labor will be cen-tralized
in the U. S. Employment Service
of the Department of Labor, and all inde-pendent
recruiting of common labor by
manufacturers having a payroll of more
than 100 men will be diverted to the U. S.
Employment Service. This is in accord-ance
with the decision of the War Labor
Policies Board and approved by the Pres-ident
on June 17. (The War Labor Poli-cies
Board is composed of representatives
of the War, Navy, and Agricultural De-partments,
the Shipping Board and the
Emergency Fleet Corporation, the War
Industries Board, and the Food, Fuel, and
Railroad Administrations. Its chairman
is Felix Frankfurter, Assistant to the Sec-retary
of Labor.)-
The above action was found necessary
to overcome a perilous shortage of un-skilled
labor in war industries. This
shortage was aggravated by an almost un-iversal
practice of labor stealing and
poaching.
While the restrictions against the private
employment of later appl y enly to
labor at the present time, these restric-tions
will, as soon as possible, be extended
to include skilled labor. (In the meantime
recruiting of skilled labor for war pro-duction
will be subject to federal regu-lations
now being prepared.)
This drastic change in the Nation's la-bor
program has been found necessary in
order to protect the employer and the em-ployed,
to conserve the labor supply of the
communities and to cut down unnecessary
and expensive labor turn-over (which, in
some cases, is as high as 100 per cent a
week), and to increase the production of
essentials.
While non-essential industries will be
drawn upon to supply the necessary labor
for war work, the withdrawal will be con-ducted
on an, equitable basis in order to
protect" the individual employer as much
as possible.
Under the operating methods adopted,
the country has been divided into thirteen
federal districts, each district in charge of
a superintendent of the U. S. Employment
Service. The States within each district
are in turn in charge of a State Director,
who has full control of the service within
his State.
In each community there is being formed
a local communuty labor board, consisting
of a representative of the U. S. Employ-ment
Service, a representative of employ-ers
and a representative of the employed.
This board will have jurisdi ction over re-cruiting
and distributing labor in its lo-cality.
A survey of the labor requirements is be-ing
made, and in order that each commun-ity
may be fully protected, rulings have
been issued that no labor shall be trans-ported
out of any community by the U. S.
Employment Service without the approval
of the State Director ; nor shall any labor be
removed by the Service from one state to
another without the approval of the U. S.
Employment Service at Washington. Ev-ery
effort will be made to discourage any
movements from community to commun-ity
or state to state by any other service.
It must be understood that farm labor
New Employment
Plan Now In Effect
FAREWELL WEEK OF THE PICKERT
STOCK COMPANY
The farewell week of the popular Pickert
Sisters Stock Company at Hershey Park
theatre opened with "The Call of the
Woods," a play of the great north woods,
and it certainly pleased the theatre-goers.
Miss Lillian Pickert, the clever little
leading lady, as usual, had the audience
with her, and as Hilda, the French-Canad-ian
girl, had a very strong part which she
handled to perfection.
Mr. Foote, the new leading man with
the company, was seen to good advantage,
as well as Miss Jane Hastings, who is fast
becoming a prime favorite with the Her-shey
theatre-goers.
Ernestine DeMillo had a part out of her
line, but showed that she could capably
handle most any part assigned her.
A. J. LaTelle and Clint Dodson had the
comedy end of the play and they certainly
made the most of it. Mr. Barnes as the
bad brother, and Willis Pickert as the Old
Trapper, both did justice to their parts.
The last half of the week the company
will present "Scrambled Babies", and
there is no need to say that it will be a
scream. The play depicts a baby mix-up
and naturally one concludes that it' will be
funny.
BROOKLYN STOCK COMPANY AT
HERSHEY PARK THEATRE
NEXT WEEK.
Beginning next week, August 5th, the
Brooklyn Stock Company, under the man-agement
of Erlau H. Wilcox, will open at
the Hershey Park theatre for a five weeks
engagement.
Mr. Wilcox, who is one of the cleverest
xylophone players in the country, will be
remembered by many of the Hershey
people, as he was manager of the Pickert
Stock Company last season.
Mr. Wilcox's new company this season
is high-class in every respect, and will pro-duce
all royalty plays, plays that have
made big successes in New York.
Among some of the principals are Val.
C. Cleary, who was leading man. with the
Ridgewood Stock Company, Brooklyn, N.
Y., last season; then the clever Miss
Pickert; also Miss Grace Pickert, the later
being the first appearance at Hershey;
then the clever juvenile team Master Erlau
and Betty, and a host of other talent,
making, without a doubt, one of the
best stock companies on the road. -
OBEY IL S. SUGAR RULE, FOOD
CHIEF APPEALS
"Don't help the kaiser! Help the sol-dier
by living up to the letter and spirit of
the sugar-saving regulation," says the
State, food administrator in a statement
to the public.
"In again addressing the people of Penn-sylvania,
this time with the request that
they confine their use of sugar to two
pounds per person per month, I do so with
the supreme confidence in them that they
will answer 'Yes' willingly, as' they have
done so many times before.
"No Pennsylvanian who -reads the pa-pers
can fail to feel a thrill of pride in the
magnificent achievement of our armies in
France, where large numbers of Pennsyl-vania
soldiers are now fighting their battles.
Some of these men have already made the
supreme sacrifice, and all the resf-are pre-pared
to do so.
"The food administration, in endeav-oring
to give to these brave men all necess-ary
food , in order that their full strength
may be maintained, must of necessity ask
those of us who remain at home to supply
them their full ration, even tho we should
be required to do without some special
commodity entirely.
"Sugar for canning and preserving may
still be obtained with special certificates,
thru the grocers, but this sugar must not
be used for any other purpose than the
above mentioned.
HERSHEY COMMUNITY SERVICES
WELL ATTENDED
The Community services held in Her-shey
Park last Sunday afternoon, although
the weather was unusually hot, was well
attended.
Rev. Games, pastor of Holy Trinity
Church, delivered the address. Prof.
Whitmoyer, of Palmyrs, led the singing..
This coming Sunday Hon. G. H.Moyer,
of Palmyra, will deliver the address. Prof.
Whitmoyer and Miss Helen Landgrath
will sing solos.
The singing of the combined choirs, is
especially good. There are plenty of song
sheets and a place for you. A cordial in-vitation
is given to every one to attend
these community services.
John Allen Tells of His Maneuvers
Since He Has Been In Camp
Hdqrs. Det., 5th Tr. Bn. Camp Sher-man,
Ohio, July 20, 1918.
Dear Friend ;
Presuming you will be interested
to learn of my experiences and "goings and
comings" since doning the "khaki", I
shall begin tonight to relate all of them,
but it may tafe me several evenings in
which to do it, as I am subject to interrup-tion
by duty any minute. Here goes:
The initial night (which I might term my
"Immersion"), which, by the way, was a
memorable one, took place, to be exact, on
Friday evening, May 31st, between the
hours of six to ten. My mobilization pa-pers
were several days late reaching the
Local Board at Springfield , from Richmond
Va., where I was transferred from, and
my trip from there to Camp was devoid of
company, the Springfield boys of the May
quota having left several days prevous,
whihe was to my regret as I had anticipated
coming to camp with them.
On my arrival at the Station in Chilli-cothe,
I was placed with six men who had
come from Cleveland on an earlier train.
They were some hard looking bunch. At
first sight I saw muderers, bank robbers,
and all other types of crooks jn the crowd.
1 had a little money in my possession but I
thot it would be in theirs before morning.
Here is the personnel (in nationalities) of
the crowd: 1 Turk, 1 Greek, 1 Jew, 1
Irishman, and 2 Americans. One of the
Americans was the only civilized looking
person in the gang. I learned afterwards
that he was a minister's son. His pre-sence
certainly buoyed me up, and since we
have become very intimate pals. The
other American and the Irishman and the
Turk were filled with old (Ex-) John Barley
Corn to their "tympanums". The Turk
had a blood-thirsty, carnivorous facial
but he was not near as savage as he looked
and proved to be an able comedian. He
was as funny as a broken crutch, and was
the source of much amusement. In fact,
the whole gang turned out to be pretty
good scouts and are making splendid
soldiers.
After figure eighting, the whole camp, we
ultimately were assigned to a barracks for;
rations and another one for quarters about!
8:15 P. M. In the meantime, the TurM
had become delirious from portraying on!
his mental horizon the meal that was al
waiting his presence, but revived when the
scent of hot roast came in contact with oil
factory nerves when he was assisted into
the mess hall. . j
Immediately after finishing mess, the
Supply Sergeant, who was a gigantic
structure of human matter and so rough1
that they fed him "scrambled nails" every
morning for breakfast, issued. us som \
equipment, such as towels, soap, mess kit
(most important of all), blankets, bed tic] i
(filled), etc. We then transported thes;
said articles, together with the persorul
treasures which we brought with us, to th j
sacred precincts of barracks M-26, wher;
we were destined to bunk on ticks on thb
floor. The Supply Sergeant must have,
by the means of some magic power, learne 1
of my athletic prowess and gymnastic abi -
ity, for I was given a tick filled with enoug i
(Continued on page 2.). '
Hershey Boy Wri tes
of Army Life
gram distinctly includes special efforts to
keep the farmer supplied with labor.
The requirement that unskilled labor
must be reenfited through the sole agency
of the U. S. Employment Service does not
at present apply in the following five cases:
1. Labor which is not directly or in-directly
solicited. 2. Labor for the rail-roads.
3. Farm labor—to be recruited in
accordance with existing arrangement with
Department of Agriculture. 4. Labor
for non-war work. 5. Labor for establish-ments
whose maximum force does not ex-ceed
one hundred.
When the survey of labor requirements
has been made and the aggregate demand
will be protected, for the industrial pro-for
unskilled labor in war work is found ,
each State will be assigned a quota, repre-senting
the common labor to be drawn
from among men engaged in non-essential
industries in that State.
These State quotas will in turn be dis-tributed
among localities. Within each
locality, employers in non-war work, in-cluding
those who are only partially in war
work, will be asked to distribute the local
quotas from time to time amongst them-selves.
Quotas by localities and individ-uals
are to be accepted as readily as they
are for Liberty Loan and Red Cross cam-paigns.
This plan of labor quotas is a
protection for all communities.
The object is to keep any community from
being drained of labor, and to use local
supply, as far as possible, for local demand.
The situation, however, is such that in cer-tain
cases some men may have to be trans-ported
over long distances.
From the above outline this is probably
the most drastic action that the Govern-ment
has taken since putting the National
Army draft into effect. The absolute ne-cessity
for this program can be seen when
it is realized that in Pittsburgh, for in-stance,
there are advertisements calling for
men to go to Detroit; while in Detroit
street cars there are posters asking men to
go to Pittsburgh. This same condition is
apparent all over the United States and in
the consequent shifting of labor a great
part of our war effort is dissipated.