FROM ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

in Time of War—

Help Win the War—Plan a Post-War Work Pile— Now!

OR two years the Committee on Participation of a

Rotarians in the Post-War World has been carrying 4]
on intensive studies of the problems that will be faced, \
and which must be solved when the present conflict is
over. The committee expects to continue with this long
range program and it is hoped that the Rotary clubs will
also continue to study the vital problems that are in-
volved and arrange programs that will assist in develop-
ing an informed public opinion.
At the same time, it is generally conceded that the best
of plans will fail if there should be an economic collapse
at the end of the war, whereby millions of demobilized
men and women were unable to obtain employment.
The so-called “Work Pile Plan” appears to be one of the a
safest and surest ways of preventing such a collapse, and
one which will permit the peoples of the world to or-
ganize their future in an atmosphere that is not disturbed

3 by the fears and uncertainties that are created by any

period of widespread unemployment.

It is the safety valve on the entire |
program of post-war planning.

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by having an accumulation of pre-arranged work in
factory, store, farm, office, construction, utilities and
other places to insure that every worker who needs a

job will have something to do.

Rotary claims no credit for originating this activity. Its

ultimate goal, post-war jobs, is the objective of several,

ELPING win the war need not and should not
blind Rotarians to an almost equally important
responsibility—to help get ready to live in the

world after the war. Indeed some of the efforts to get
ready for the post-war world may contribute to winning
the war. A boy in the armed services who knows that

people at home are making arrangements for real jobs
for him and his fellows on their return will be a better
fighter than one who wonders whether peddling apples
or going on the dole is to be his lot.

That’s the idea behind Rotary’s Work Pile project. It
is to win the peace for which the war is being fought

perhaps many agencies, some in every country. In the
United States, the Committee for Economic Develop-
ment (C.E.D.), the Chamber of Commerce of the
U.S.A., the National Association of Manufacturers, the
National Clearing House Committee initiated by the
Re-employment Division of Selective Service, and