The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-01-08
Information On
Social Security

ployment Service, as directed by
President Roosevelt, will be accom-
plished with the least possible dis
turbance of existing personnel and
methods of operation.
Stating that to attain 24-hour,
seven-day-a-week war production, the
nations labor force must be increased
by at least a fourth, he called upon
the 10000 men and women who op-
crate the 1,500 public employment Of
fees throughout the country for maxi
mum efficiency in the performance Of
their critical tasks.
Mr.. McNutt emphasized that only
the minimum changes in organization
necessary to bring about the in
creased speed and coordination re-
quired in time of war will be made.
He stated that the Social Security
Board which is responsible for the ad-
ministration of the United States En-
ployment Service will cooperate with
the Governors of the various States in
working out plans to safeguard the
pension rights built up by employment
service personnel, as we'll as any other
rights to which their service in State
government entitled them.
Federal operation of the United
States Employment Service, Mr.. Nc
Mutt said, "will provide direct ad-
ministrative line straight from the Di-
rector of the United States Employ
ment Service, John j. Corson, through
the IL regional labor supply officers
of the service, to the individual State
and local offices. Thus, it will be pos
sible to get prompt unified action on
critical situations of labor displace-
ment caused by priorities, and OH
shortages of skilled labor in the war
industries, the two most urgent prob
lens facing the United States En-
ployment Service today"
Mr. McNutt said that the United
States Employment Service hoped to
meet the labor needs of the war in
dustries through a three-point pro-
gram:
O By transferring workers dis
placed because of priorities to war
production,
(2) By making increased use of
existing and potential labor reserves
including women, older workers, Ne
groes, and minority groups against
whom there is frequent discrimina-
ton, and
(3) By making more effective use
of those already employed through
upgrading of workers, and transfer of
needed workers to war production
from less essential jobs.
Training of unskilled or only par
TALLY skilled workers through govern
ment or industry-operated training
programs will play a big part in this
program, he said.
Mr.. McNutt emphasized that the
success of this plan depended on full
cooperation by employers with the
United States Employment Service in
its efforts to organize and channel
the nations labor supply for maxi
mum production. He urged all en-
ployers to recruit workers exclusive
ly through their local public employ
ment offices and to refrain from blind
advertising, labor scouting, or pirat-
ing, and other wasteful and disrup-
tive labor-recruiting methods. Most
important Of all, he said, was that
employers realize the necessity for
using the workers they have as eco
nomically as possible. Highly skilled
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exclusively for important war produc-
ton jobs, and employers should VOL
UNFAIRLY transfer such employees to
war work from less essential jobs be-
fore trying to obtain additional
workers.
"Hoarding of skilled workers, rob-
bing other employers of labor, refus-
ing to employ workers because of
their sex, age, race, nationality, or
religion, importing labor from other
areas when qualified workers are
available in the locality, wasting man
power through inefficient production
methods, all such acts endanger the
war effort" he said. "Only with the
wholehearted observance by industry
of desirable labor market practices
will it be possible for this country to
attain, by free and democratic means,
the maximum utilization of our labor
resources which is essential to vic
tory"
Mr.. McNutt explained that the un-
employment compensation systems in
each State would remain State
operated as heretofore. Arrangements
will be worked out in each State, he
said, whereby the federally operated
public employment offices where un-
employed workers claiming benefits
are required to register, will continue
to serve the State agencies admins
tering the unemployment compensa-
ton laws.
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