The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-03-14
Uncle Sam Hangs "Men Wanted Signs From Coast to Coast for Skilled Workers
National Drive To
 Begin Tomorrow
BY PETER EDISON NEA Service Washington
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NOEICoVOuUSut g, Washington, March l4-A nation- wide drive, with all the ioople of a
 wartime crusade, gets under way to- piflorrow in an effort to find enough
 skilled workers to do the defense @job.
 No one knows just how many :, workers 1t will take. All that is known is that $15,00000 900 worth nof defense contracts have been let, and as that's a lot of business, 1t will take a lot of men.
 Facts that are known additionally are that there are between six and
 seven million unemployed in the country today, including those on WPA, and that there are five mll- lions unemployed registered with federal and state unemployment in- .r rgurance offices. Rounding up the un. |, registered million or two and find- ing what they can do to help, if anything, is part o fthe job.
 ALI OUT DRIVE FOR MORE SKILLED LABOR ''t United States employment service, :, created back in 1918 as part of the N department of labor, but now func- tioning as a part of the social se- curity board of the federal security " administration, has charge of this . labor recruiting drive. Cooperating, actually doing the work, will be the 1,500 main offices and the 5000 4 branch ofiices of the various state employment services, set up as part . of each states unemployment in- Surance administrations. ~ The drive to get all the men reg istered will last month. It will be , conducted with posters, patriotic ap- peals, speeches and announcements |, in churches, schools and wherever.
 The aim will be to register every unemployed person capable of hold ing a job and every person now holding an unskilled job but cap- able of doing a skilled job. Particu- larly, the bait is to be put out for men capable of doing @ job in air. craft manufacture, aeronautical en- gineering, shipbuilding and machine shop and machinery manufacturing. Sheet metal workers, ship carpenters and filters, tool and die makers and machinists are in particular demand. REFREsHER COURSES FOR
 ONCE. WORKERS a The prospect of finding enough of these skilled laborers, ready to go to work, is rather small.
 A survey of the unemployment in- suranee rolls of over four million, made last January in an effort to obtain men for 40 defense occupa- tions. revealed only 350,000 suitable craftsmen. Hence the broadening of the coming drive to include men now working on one job but capable of |. doing a better one.
 Men who worked at skilled trades some years ago, and who may have lost their knack, are to be referred to refresher courses being run by other government agencies in an z effort to bring their skills up to snuff and make them capable of 4 skilled work again.
 KNUDSEN WANTS SERVICE
 TO BE A CLEARING HOUSE Half a dozen agencies are coop erating in training unskilled work CTS for these various skilled trades:
 N. D. A. 0. -- National defense advisory commission, helps employ CTS train workers in their own plants, older men as well as ap- prentices.
 N. Y. A.--national youth admin istration, gives training to young sters in school in regular, or extra out-of -school hours.
 o. 0. C.-civilian conservation corps, gives extra, voluntary voca- tional training.
 W. P. A.-works progress admin istration, handles the refresher courses, paying W. P. A. wages to men while relearning trades they may have lost in the depression.
 U. s. o. E-United States office of education, pays tuition but not ., living expenses to men taking ad- vanced technical training in colleges u and universities.
 U. 6. E. S.-United States en- .,ployment service, registers the un- employed, classifies them, and either