The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-13
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area manpower director. This infor-
nation, it was pointed out, should be
of great help in facilitating the work
of the area manpower committee
which will work with the director.
Some of the pertinent facts
brought out at the meeting include {:
Cd New Haven will need on the
basis of present or anticipated war
contracts, and in view of the re-
cruitment of men for the armed
force, an estimate of between 5000
and 1000 new workers in the next
90 days.
CD Many New Haven workers
are working in other communities
because of higher wage rates pre-
vailing there.
CD Present child care facilities,
although not fully utilized now ow-
ing to lack of accessibility to those
most needing them, as well as not
being known to working mothers,
will not be adequate to meet the
demand.
(4) There are existing facilities
for sufficient job training in the
community, which are not fully
utilized. A diminishing number OF
girl students instead of an increas.
ing number is noted at the Board.
man Trade School.
60 Of the 1000 youths between
16 and Is who have completed
vocational training courses at the
N.Y.A. centers only about $500
have been placed on jobs in the
New Haven area. The N.Y.A. can
expand its training program if there
is demand for such training.
co. New Haven is low in the
number of fOremen, assistants and
lead men who have received train.
ing within industry in order to
teach efficient Operational methods
to unskilled workers going into wal
industry.
CD There was not a sufficient
number of war workers interested
in war housing project at West Hills
to fill the 800 units being com
pleted there, and other than es.
sential industrial Immigrant work
ers had to be found to fill at least
One-third of the vacancies.
CD Negroes and other minority
groups are still being Disseminated
against.
Among the suggestions made at the
conference were:
Mothers with children needing Their
care should only be recruited for wal
work at the last resort; womer
should not be urged to accept jobs ii
war plants alone but should also BIZ
encouraged to take jobs in the service
industries in order to free men fo1
war work or the fighting front; some
promise of job security after the wal
should be given women now being
asked to train for highly skilled OF
technical positions.
In opening the conference, Prof
Roscoe Steffen stated: Anything
whatever we may do here :. will be
all to the good. 1t is a very happy
thing that both the CLIO. and ALL
have been working together on this
problem and have sponsored this con-
ference"
William Ennis, Connecticut Di-
rector of the U. S. Employment
Service, was unable to be present.
but sent John ]. COnfrey, field
supervisor, who spoke on the man
power needs of the city. Sometimes
estimates of the needs are made on
the basis of existing contracts held
by manufacturers, and other times
on the basis of contracts they ex-
pect to secure. Figures are oft
times arrived at by multiplying the
Individual needs of certain manu-
facturers, ON the assumption that
there exists a proportional need
among all employers.
This assumptive calculation, Con
frey said, was a tunnel-vision manner
of looking at the problem, because the
observer fails to look at all phases
of it. 1t, therefore, fails to present a
true picture because it does not in
clude all factors.
IN arriving at any definite flg-
ure, he stated, one is at the mercy
of many changing elements, such
as migration of labor, the drafting
of employees, the availability of
material for war production, and
the chance that anticipated con-
tracts may not materialize as ex-
pected. The estimates change fire.
quently.
Confrey said that New Haven
was not at present considered a
critical area of manpOwer short
age, and that the original estimated
need of 1000 new workers by
May had been revised downward
to 5000. ''There is a lot of labor
in this community that could be
used, he said.
DR.. J. Allen Hickerson of New
Haven Teachers College reported on
the child training facilities of the COM