Evening star., 1944-07-23
Transport Line
Job Ceilings in
D. {. Removed
FIuetuotine Demands
Of Wartime Traffic
Necessitute Chance

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yesterday.
This decision-first of its kind
here-permits establishments di-
recUly involved in freight and pas
senger traffic over long distances to
hire enough workers to meet their
peak loads regardless of the num-
ber of workers they had on their
payroll from May Is to June l.
the employment ceiling of other
Washington employers.
The Washington Terminal Co
also is covered by the blanket
exemption but the incorporating
branches Of the transportation in
dustry, such as the shops, Offices
and storerooms, have to abide by
their employment ceilings, Mr.. Con-
molly said.
The priority for workers granted
the transportation lines, however, is
no higher than that for most other
essential Washington employers, but
Mr.. Connolly said the problem had
not been to get enough workers but
to change the number of workers
employed in proportion to the
traffic.
Direct Hiring Extended.
Mr.. Connolly also announced yes
terday that permission to hire work
ers without making them go through
the United States Employment Serv-
ice had been granted to the Wash
lngton Restaurant AsSociation and
four unions in addition to the
previously announced Washington
Building and Construction Trades
Council, AFL.
The other unions which will send
workers to jobs without channeling
them through the USES are Bar
bers Local No. 239. AFL: Hotel and
Restaurant Workers Alliance No.
78l, AFL; Cooks, Pastry Cooks and
Kitchen Employees Local No. 209
AFL, and Hotel Service Workers
Local No. 80.
In addition to the hiring arrange
ments already made, Mr.. Connolly
revealed, agreements with another
association. II unions, eight fee
charging employment agencies and
two individual employers are now
awaiting the signatures of the af-
fected parties before going into ef-
feet. Arrangements with the profit
making employment agencies call
for them to clear each workers case
by telephone with the USES before
sending the worker to a job, Mr..
Connolly said.
Mr.. Connolly explained that while
no hiring arrangement had been
made with the Hotel Association,
at its own request, the, hotels had
their own representative at the
USES and could also hire workers
referred to them by the unions with
whom hiring arrangements have
been made.
Shifts Part Of Load.
Asked why BARRIERS, who are Off
cially considered less essential,
should be granted special treatment,
Mr.. Connolly said they were in an
occupation in which workers do not
normally shift outside their own
industry, that they were trained to
be BARRIERS and in line with VINO
policy would have to be referred
to barber shops if they did go to
the USES. Under the job referral
program, workers can refuse Jobs
which do not use their highest skills
VINO also is considering hiring
arrangements for three associations
and seven individual employers in
addition to arrangements already
completed or nearing completion,
Mr.. Connolly said.
These hiring arrangements, it was
explained, not only take part of the
load off the USES Offices but also
enable employers in certain fields
to get workers to meet emergency
situations.
300 Seek Adjustments.
/ In another progress report on the
Job referral program which went
into effect July l, Mr.. Connolly SAID
that to date 300 employers had filed
applications for an adjustment in
their employment ceiling or a
higher priority for workers, giving
hem preferred treatment from the
USES.
The Manpower Priorities Com.
mittee which acts on the applica
tions for firms Of more than sc
workers SO far has permitted Is
increases in employment ceilings
and Mr.. Connolly, who handles
firms with less than so workers has
granted % increases, the area di-
rector reported.
To date. no employers have been
classed in the two top priority
groups but seven establishments
have gone into Group 3, and "a into
Group 4, giving them priority for
workers over all other essential and
locally needed activities which are
classed as Group and over all less
essential activities, classed as
Group 6.
OF the 300 applications, 80 have
been acted on by the, Manpower
Priorities Committee and 81 by the
area director. Seventy-four are
awaiting action and 1856 have been
held up pending additional informa-
tion or a policy decision, Mr.
Connolly said