The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-17
Major Maloney Heads
 Special Commission
Director of State Employment Service to Supervise
 Long Range Program for Youth Council

Hartford, Conn, Oct. 17-Appoint- ment of Major Leonard J. Maloney, director of the Connecticut State Employment Service, as chairman of a special committee of the Connec- ticut Youth Council to study long range problems of unemployment, with particular reference to youth, was announced today by pr. Alonzo P. Grace, commissioner of education and chairman of the Youth Council.
 Other members of the committee are: Roy Fugal, personnel manager of the General Electric Company, Bridgeport; Dr. Millicent Pond, Per- sonnel director, Scovill Mfg. Com pany, Waterbury; Dwight Phelps, vice president, Colts Paten Fire Arms Mfg. Co.,, Hartford; J. Will liam Jones, personnel manager, Elec- trtc Boat Company, New London; John Egan, secretary, Connecticut Federation of Labor, New Haven; J. H. DeCantillon, business represen- tative International Association of Machinists, Meriden; Morgan R. Mooney, Deputy Labor Commission CT; William Dover, Hartford Cham her of Commerce; Leroy Ramsdell, Hartford Council of Social Agencies: Kenneth Gregg, director of research and planning, Connecticut Develop ment Commission; Charles Eyanson, executive director, Connecticut Manufacturers Association, Thomas J. Mills, director of research and statistics. State Employment &c., curity Division, Dr. R. II. Mathew son, Division of Planning and Re- search, State Department of Educa- ton, secretary of the committee and the Youth Council.
 It was stated that while the com mittee would immediately concern itself with the problem of ynemploy- ment which may now be caused by the shutting down of non-defense industries, the long range program of the committee will include studies of ways and means of protecting youth against the possibility of un- employment after the defense boom collapses. It was also pointed out that while the committee was con- cerned primarily with youth, be- cause of ramifications its scope would probably be much broader, and would necessarily have to deal with general cyclic unemployment.
 "At the present time there are about 51 million people employed in the United States, Major Maloney stated, land million of these are engaged in defense work. It has been estimated that in 1914 a peak of 60 million people will be working in the United States and 27 million will be in defense work. Obviously, the orderly and speedy transition of these 27 million workers back to non-defense work will be gigantic task and it is not too early to start thinking about it now. Tn any major economic shift of this kind, youth plays an important role; for example, during past depressions, apprenticeship schools have either been curtailed or entirely shut down thus creating e serious gap in the steady flow of skilled workmen nec- essary for normal industrial growth. Such condition preceded the prss- ent emergency and one of It's results has been the dearth of trained young men in the machine crafts. We want. if possible. to profit by the experience of the past by avoiding such curtailment.'
 Another field of inquiry which the committee would enter into was Q study of replacement industries suit- able because of plant. equipment and consumer demand ct the con-