War Orders Bring Labor Shortage

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 10, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 31.

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War Orders Bring Labor Shortage

The orders for war materials in the manufacturing centers of the East are so many and so urgent that, to quote a leading financial authority, “by October 1, iron and steel manufacturers say, there will be a labor famine in this country.” “One manufacturer said he believed that premiums would have to be offered to get sufficient men to operate the mills which are starting up.”