industries.

This included: (a) A system of labor exchanges. (b) The training
of workers. (c) Agencies for determining priorities in labor
demands. (d) Agencies for the dilution of skilled labor.

2. Machinery for adjusting disputes between capital and labor,
without stoppage of work.

3. Machinery for safeguarding conditions of labor, including
industrial hygiene, safety appliances, etc.

4. Machinery for safeguarding conditions of living, including
housing, etc.

5. Machinery for gathering data necessary for effective executive
action.

6. Machinery for developing sound public sentiment and an
exchange of information between the various departments of labor
administration, the numerous industrial plants, and the public,
so as to facilitate the carrying out of a national labor
programme.

Having thus first laid the foundations of a national labor policy
and having, in the second place, developed an effective means of
Americanizing, as far as possible, the various labor groups, the
Federation took another step. As a third essential element in
uniting labor to help to win the war, it turned its attention to
the inter-allied solidarity of workingmen. In the late summer and