New Britain herald., 1928-10-13
FACTORY H0A7ERS
 SOON IDENTIFIED
Quickly Labelled by Labor Bu,
 reaus and Turned Away

Although there has been a steady growth in man hours on an average in New Britain, according to Arthur s. Brown, executive secretary of the local branch of the Manufacturers association of Hartford county, much difficulty h being experienced by unskilled laborers of the so- called fioater type in finding jobs.
 There is always a demand for some skilled labor, Mir. Brown said.
 No. there is nothing doing to- day" the employment official stated 1 to a group of young men who enter ed the office on Myrtle street while he was talking 10 the Herald repre-
 sentative. Turning to tho latter he
 continued "They are perfectly all
 right and we need men in a number
 of lines of work. but they are not
 the type. We could use | number
 q good men skilled in various trades. For instance. right now we Icould place several buffers, some good lathe hands, some real honest ' to goodness machintsts and can find
 work for good moulders. Mouiders,
 we find, usually go to the farms and
 tobacco fields during the summer
 months and about now are ready to
 get back into the foundries for the
 winter. A good per cent of our turn
 over at this time of year Is the re- turn to school and college of many of the younger set who work during
 vacation, Another position which
 we have open and is hard to sh' is
 an operator on Wayman wood
 turning lathe.
 Few Calls for Females
 "There is little call for female
 help from our factories but we
 often have, calls from people wish ing housemaids and quite frequent ly we have women call who are , looking for hotel, restaurant ol homework. While we have some , times sent girls out for domestic service as a courtesy. we find tha' . it often makes trouble. Either thu woman who is hiring the girl il dissatisfied with her and comes bacs | at us or the girl returns with , counter complaint. A good genera , employment bureau for that class o , help might be of benefit to this 10
 cality, but we prefer to let tha & branch of service alone.
 Y Probably the most undesirabl
 1 class of job hunters is the 'foater f who quits his job because hs doe I not like his boss; who gives up an' Y goes home because he is asked t do an honest days work or thos who drop their tools and watch tn f clock as soon as the foreman's bac V Is turned. After shifting aroun : from one factory to another it v not long before the employment me f have their number and then the F go around 'crabbing' that bushes = is dull and an honest man can = get a job We have in mind on q man who is a machinist and of fai s ability. We could show where h if has had 27 jobs locally and tn a longest he ever stayed in one wa e five months while the averae ., would be about one or two week d He is a man who has reached tf l. age of discretion.
 q Some men quit because the
 neighbors are getting few doila, d more than they, not taking into col ,- sideration that doubtless the oth' :. men are working harder and mol .y conscientiously, and what is nor m have remained on the job for a col ,e siderable period of time.
 s "Of course these conditions app T. more 10 unskilled labor than Il l. skilled. The latter are more high to educated while the others do n of seem to care to advance in cap s bilities but just drift along hopir f; something worth while will turn u .a The young fellow who will give h as time to a course in the trade scho ,e or take an apprentice course Is il
 boy who will win out in the en |. but unfortunately. there are r- many other attractions of le ., serious nature that the idea of b c. ing tied down to school or [. is earning of a trade does not appe n- 10 them.
 he "No. it is seldom that We c of place an unskilled man. as that cla d. usually makes the rounds of { nj factory employment bureaus befo n- coming to us. but the skilled m A. with trade will always find n, ready to take his name and if pc ms sble find him a job.'
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