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PRESIDENTS STATEMENT "Indastry plays a essectial and honorable a role in tbis great-struggle as do oar military armanrenb." "Therefore, I solemnly urge all employers engaged in war work to retrain after Aogusl lit, 1918, from recruiting unskillsd labor io any manner except through this central agency U. S. Employment Senrice. "I urge labor to respond as loyally as heretofore to any calls issued by this agency for voluntary enlistment in essential industry. And 1 ask them both alike to remember that no sacrifice wiil have been in vain, if e are able to pro beyond all question that the highest and best form of efficiency is the spontaneous co-operation of a free people." VVOODROW WILSON.

"T'S life ordeath in the trench there must be no delay in supplying every man in France with EVERYTHING that he may need or want in his job of licking the Hun. Many a man's

life will hang on there being another rifle ready to his hands, a new, keen-edged bayonet, a plentiful supply of grenades. Back of every man who goes over the top and into the Hun's trenches there must be a steady, unending flow of supplies.

Our job over here is to MAKE SURE the supplies are there and at hand. That means working every minute of every working day. It means, too, STICKING to the job. And there is one of our gravest dangers. America is losing more through thoughtless changing of jobs, thoughtless hiring of men than through almost any other one thing. It costs on the average $20 to $200 every time a man changes his job. The man loses time. A machine stands idle that ought to be working top speed on those war supplies. Changes, of course, must be made, for the war industries need more and more men. But don't let's make changes from one essential

war work to another unless there's a mighty good reason. For this purpose the Government has established the United States Employment Service with 500 branch offices and 20,000 U. S. Public Service Reserve agents to help men find war work and to help manufacturers find more men without interfering with other war work. Use this Service it is free prompt. It covers the country. It is one sure way of knowing that you are HELPING to win the war. Address the nearest U. S. Employment Office or the Director General at Washington.

H. E. JONES, U. S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE Phone 19 East Chicago, Ind.

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