National Employment System; Hearings Before the Joint Committees on Labor on S.688 S.1442 H.R.4305

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1919 Excerpt: ... NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN. Resolutions passed at the thirty-first annual meeting of the executive board of the National Council of Women, April 18, 1919: "Whereas there are between eleven and twelve million wage-earning women in the United States to-day; and Whereas the United States Employment Service has placed 800,000 of these women in essential industries during the past year, widened woman's economic apportunity, helped to maintain labor standards in every community, find by so doing caused a vast saving in labor turnover, and Whereas this service Is now being called upon my employers and employees at the rate of 500,00(1 per month, and Whereas the United States Employment Service is placing 80 per cent of all demobilized soldiers, sailors, and marines who wish aid in securing employment, and Whereas justice demands that the Nation provide employment systems in order that soldiers, sailors, and war workers be not penalized for their war service; and in order that woman's wider interest and equality of opportunity in industry, gained during the war, be not now relegated to a minor place: Therefore be it Rcsolrcil, That the National Council of Women, remembering the President's patriotic appeal to the women of the country to steadfastly uphold the standards for which our forefathers fought, and believing that industrial unrest is augmented by unemployment, requests that every member of the federation should use her best efforts to secure the legislation required to establish the United States Pmployment Service within the Department of Labor on a permanent, national basis, and be it further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be spread upon the minutes of the thirty-first annual meeting of the executive board of the National Council of Women; that a...