Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1919 — GREAT SHORTAGE OF AGRICULTURAL LABOR. [ARTICLE]

GREAT SHORTAGE OF AGRICULTURAL LABOR.

A shortage of agricultural labor as well as common labor in the western states and a general surplus of men off professional and technical training and of clerks were noted as the outstanding featunft of the present employment situation in the United States hr the annual report of the division of operations of the federal employment srevice, made public yesterday. Surplus office help was attributed chiefly to the desire of many persons formerly engaged as laborers or mechanics to secure clerical employment while holding up of new industrial projects pending ratification of the peace treaty and clarification of industrial conditions was ascribed as the cause of the surplus of men of executive and professional and technical abilities.