Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-02
New uses Office
Here Will Seek
Clerical Help
Official Says Increase
Of 400 Pct. Needed
InWhite-C Collar Group

New steps to increase the number
OF workers In the District and other
acute labor shortage areas can be
hired only through the United
States Employment Service and to
attract urgently needed white-collar
workers into essential jobs here were
announced yesterday by officials Of
USES and the War Manpower Com
mission.
Charles E. Farmer, local USES
director, announced arrangements
for opening on Friday a new en-
ployment Office at 1922 Fifteenth
street NV, in a move for enlist
ment of more white collar workers.
He said VINO officials and District
employers will attend the opening,
set for 2 pm.
simultaneously. Henry E. Treide,
regional war manpower director, re-
vealed plans for tighter control Of
hiring practices in the District which
is one of the Group 1" or tight labor
areas in this region, which also in
cludes Maryland, Virginia, West Vir-
ginia and North Carolina.
Want 400 Per Cent Increase.
The present employment center
at SOL K street NV. has been at
tracing only Is per cent of those
registering for jobs, Mr.. Farmer
said, and it is believed the new
location will find more white collar
workers applying for jobs. The K
street Office will be continued, he
said.
Mr.. Farmer said it is hoped to
increase the number of job seekers
in commercial, professional, techni-
cal and managerial categories by
400 per cent.
Local department stores have been
in need Of part-time workers, and
the new center is expected to speed
their recruitment.
Mr. Farmer said that up to now
the USES had had to deal with
white-collar job seekers in the same
"cross-the-counter fashion" as used
in the registration of laborers.
Now we will be able to sit down
and fully interview these people and
get them referred to the Jobs that
they are suited to fill" he explained.
At present all workers in critical
occupations and all draft-age men
hired by locally needed activities
here must go through the USES. In
other areas, where the movement of
workers is more strictly controlled,
all male workers, and in some cases
all workers, can get job only with
the approval of the USES.
New Plan Prepared.
Mr.. Treide said that in the first
six months of 1914 in group /"
areas rs per cent of all workers hired
by essential employers will be placed
by the USES, according to the pro-
gram worked out last week at a
special meeting Of VINO directors
In areas where labor shortage is
imminent, so per cent of all place.
nents will be made by the USES.
I Mr. Treide reported he had noti-
fed the VINO directors throughout
the region that they would be called
upon to place 100000 workers in es-
sential industries before July. A
total Of 265 900 workers were placed
by employment Offices throughout
the region in the first six months of
1943.
1T is not anticipated" he said,
that the number of men and wom-
en- hired by essential employers in
the region over the next six months
viii be much greater than the total
number hired during the first half
of 1943. There will be a big in
crease, however, in the total number
of people channeled to their war
jobs through the USES Offices"
Change Anticipated.
During the first six months Of
last year, he said, less than 3 Of
every 10 people hired by essential
industries were placed by employ
ment offices. During the next six
months, however, VINO expects that
an average of 6 of every 10 per-
sons hired for war work will be
placed by the USES because of the
increasing number of workers whose
occupations require that they get
USES approval before they can go
to work
During the next six months, Mr..
Treide said, the District USES will
be expected to place 26,250 workers;
Maryland, 129,750; Virginia, $4,000;
West Virginia, $4,000, and North
Carolina. 152,250. With and with
out USES placements, approxi-
mately 100000 workers must be
placed in this region by July, Mr..
Treide estimated