Evening star., 1944-06-25
'Manpower Officials
Mapping Final Details
For Control Of Jobs


War manpower officials are whip
ping into shape final details of the
new program to control jobs here
and throughout the country begin
ming next Saturday.
Designed to relieve labor Short
ages not only in plants producing
materiel for battle, but also In es-
sential and locally needed industries
and services, officials hold out pros
poets of easing the situation in tight
spots in this area.
The general plan has been out
cal Management-Labor Committee,
and the Priorities Committee which
were busy here last week. But many
details still remain to be worked
out this week before the program,
known as the priority referral"
system can be put into effect Sat-
urday.
Ceilings for This Area.
Briefly the accomplishments so
far as they affect this area are:
/. Establishment of employment
ceilings for all employers at the
figure represented by the highest
number of employees between May
Is and June l. These ceilings, un-
less changed on appeal, will be ef-
fective for so days-from July / to
August 81.
2. A priority rating structure"
consisting of six-level structure
into which all firms and services
here will be placed, has been estab-
lished. Into number / level in
this structure will be placed. those
most critically in need of more
manpower, while number 6 level
will include those in the least need
Of help.
8. A list of eight exclusions"
has been established-six groups of
people who may be hired without
going through the complicated man
power priority referral system, and
the local United States Employ
ment Service. Outstanding among
these exemptions are boys and girls
between ID and II years of age,
inclusive, and veterans of this war.
Not Formally Fixed.
The standards" which are to be
used to implement this program
still are to be formally fixed. The
local management-labor committee
has drawn up a list of standards
which it hopes may be made ef-
fective here, but these now are in
the regional manpower office,
awaiting a check with the regional
standards which have not yet been
finally determined.
Meanwhile several hundred re-
quests have been filed already by
employers here on form 63, which
In effect is request to the man.
power office here for permission to
hire more labor.
Several meetings will be held
here this week on the new job-con-
troll program.
Meet Tomorrow.
At $3.50 am tomorrow, a subcom-
mittee of the Priorities Committee
will meet to consider the relative
urgency of firms engaged in trans
portation, production and public
utilities. This will be the first step
in arriving at priority ratings for.
all firms in the city.
At $3.50 am. Wednesday, the full
Priorities Committee will meet ito
go deeper into problems of arrang-
Ing the relative status of firms here
In the priorities structure.
A subcommittee of the Manage
ment-Labor Committee will meet
at time yet to be fixed to con-
slider further the problem of who
to appoint as chairman of the
Priorities Committee. In the mean
time, acting chairman of the Priori-
ties Committee is E. ". Connolly,
acting area director for VINO.
Knotty Problem.
The knotty problems of what to
do about the status of private en-
ployment agencies in the picture
will be the subject of a conference
between Mr.. Connolly, his staff, and
representatives of hiring agencies
in Washington sometime this week.
Some of these private concerns have
feared that the new plan to channel
all workers through the USES might
throw them out of business.
The new program, designed to
strengthen the war effort, in WAYS
to suit the particular needs of
every community affected, is char
acterized by manpower spokes-
man here as the strongest and most
constructive ever set up. If it wins
popular approval and support, he
added, it should be far more effec-
tive in relieving stresses and strains
in help shortage spots than any
thing yet devised.
An official pamphlet outlining
the whole plan is being prepared
for distribution tn ernnlnvere Soo,,