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Walter Sherman Gifford '05 has been appointed director of the Council of National Defence, the body which was recently recreated by act of Congress to mobilize and unify the industries of the United States. The members of the Council are the Secretaries of War, Navy, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, and Labor. Fifteen sections and boards of the Council report to the director and through him to the members of the Cabinet, and each member of the advisory council has industrial committees to assist...
...have been working out plans with New England farmers and receiving valuable suggestions from them. It is in this work that the need of labor is most acute--so acute that in mid-summer many factories are planning to release their hands to help the farmers--and it is thought that the most effective service can be rendered here. The New Haven Farm Bureau have assured us that they will find work for all applicants...
Munitions Work (for unskilled labor): Munitions factories...
...Laborers, labor leaders, peasants...
...breweries, distilleries, and saloons be closed down, and let the army of men now employed in manufacturing position for our people be given jobs on farms, in munition plants, and in the military service. They will pass into other occupations largely as unskilled labor, but there is plenty of use for such labor at the present time...