The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-15

7 rower Director Mary M. Dewt
 The action, aimed at aiding the critical manpower shortage, will in effect bring all jobs in the area ' under the new referral system and will expend the hiring controls and stabilization regulations over thou sands of previously unaffected jobs.
 An amendment to the present Stabilization plans hiring clauses, to incorporate the additional con- trols, was formulated last night and signatures of the committee mem gers are expected to be given by tomorrow. Only one factor remains ' 10 be settled, that of setting up a minimum on the number of work CTS 8 non- essential establishment must have in order to be affected by the controls, and 8 directive on that issue is expected from the State WING office momentarily.
 With the expansion of controls the local WING office personnel will be increased, with four additional workers expected in the immediate future and other appointments pos- sible later. Mrs. Dewey said an as- sistant director will be selected by the Civil Service commission, as will an administrative officer. A sec retaria1 assistant will join the staff tomorrow and another clerical worker will be named in a few more days
 A report in the Democrat last week on the expansion of the local WING office led to beliefs that new activity would arise on the labor front shortly, and last nights de- velopment was not unexpected. The need of controlling freedom of movement by workers in non-essen- tial fields was decried widely by em- ployers in the essential category, and new controls were anticipated.
 Despite prevalence of rumorS that local labor will be used to fill needs of out of-town critical industries, no action has been contemplated for such procedure, it was reported. Mrs Dewey told the Democrat today she knows of no proposal to shift work CTS from their present local essential jobs to the bearing industry or any other new jobs.
 The director said three confer ences have been held in Hartford within the past week by WING of ficials and labor leaders and no dis cussion was conducted on any action to move workers from one essential job to another.
 Under the new program, ceilings will be set on the number of work CTS non-essential establishments may employ and no referrals will be granted when ceilings are reached. It is believed the number of work CTS an employer must have in order to he affected will be from 10 to 25, with the final decision to be made by the state office.
 No action was discussed by the local committee last night about re- moving current employees from their present payrolls and shifting them to other jobs, it was disclosed, al- though some discussion has been conducted in Hartford on cutting down employment in non-essentlal establishments.
 Under reported proposal made in Hartford 10 per cent of the employees in non- essential establishments. which employ more than 25 persons, would be discharged and channeled into essential fields. No definite &C., tion has yet been taken and it is believed such proposad, if adopted, would apply mainly to the Hart ford and Neww Britain areas, which supply thousands of workers to the insurance and mercantile businesses
 Mrs. Dewey said such a 10 per cent discharge would gain little for the Waterbury area, and no local issue has been made of the proposal here.
 Under the new controls plan, re- ferrals by the U. s. Employment Service will be necessary for all per- sons seeking jobs. The referrals will be necessary when shifting is desired by persons in the non-es- sential category as they are now for essential workers.