Evening star., 1944-08-07

Employers Right
ToHireDirectIy
ST.
British Agencies Here
Also Are Allowed
Employing Privilege
BY MIRIAM OTTENBERG.

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Five Washington employers have
been given permission to hire with
out channeling the workers through
the United States Employment
Service, Washington War Man.
power Director Ernest v. Connolly
ANNOUNCED today.
Hiring arrangements also have
been made with the United King
dom Treasury delegation, which has
its own employment agency and
serves all the British agencies here.
The first five individual en-
ployers granted the privilege of hir-
ing workers without USES referral
are the Carnegie Institution, Chest
nut Farms-Chevy Chase Dairy,
Thompson's Dairy, Safeway Stores
and the Capital Transit Co.
Importance of Activity Stressed.
Mr.. Connolly said hiring arrange
ments had been made with these
employers because of the Importance
OF their activity-reasearch, food
and transportation. and because
they all have well-established per-
sonnel departments and have COM
piled previously with war manpower
regulations.
Some of the five establishments,
he added, are in Group or 4 and
thus are entitled TO a higher pri-
ority for workers than the other
essential and locally needed plants.
Those in Group who have been
granted hiring privileges, Mr.. Con-
molly said, require a type of labor
not needed by the higher priority
establishments.
A continuing check on the hiring
done by these plants, he said, will
show whether or not they are draw
ing needed labor away from higher
priority firms.
Must Make Periodic Reports.
Under the hiring arrangement, he
explained, the five employers are
authorized to hire workers eligible
for employment (workers with re-
leases from their last EMPLOYMENT
up to the establishments employ
ment ceilings. They cannot hire
workers coming into the area or
those with critical skills," except
by referral from the USES, and they
will have to make periodic reports
on the number of workers they have
hired by occupation.
Hiring arrangements, Mr.. Con-
molly said, are being worked out
with six other firms. Seven firms.
mostly smaller establishments, have
been told they must continue get
ting their workers through the
USES.
The area VINO Office also has
made hiring arrangements with the
Washington Restaurant Association,
Laundry-Dry Cleaning Owners As
sociation, Graduate Nurses Associa-
ton, three fee-charging private en-
ployment agencies and 10 unions. in
addition to the British organization.
Mr.. Connolly said Great Britain
was the only foreign government
hiring workers here which has been
under the employment stabilization
program from its beginning. The
United Kingdom treasury delega-
ton, he explained, will refer eligible
workers to the agencies it serves
and will be responsible for seeing
they abide by VINO standards.
Restaurant Group Regulated.
In both the restaurant and laun-
dry groups, employing officials will
be allowed to hire only workers last
employed in the restaurants and
laundries. Workers wanting to
enter these industries will have to
60 through the USES.
Unions added to the list of those
permitted to act as hiring halls in
'clude Drivers, Chauffeurs and
Helpers Local No. 639, International
Brotherhood of Teamsters; United
Construction Workers of United
Mine Workers. Columbia Typo
graphical Local No. 101 and the
Washington Electrotypers Local
No. II.
Progress of the priority referral
program in this region will be dis
cussed at a meeting called by
Regional VINO Director Henry E.
Treide here Thursday and Friday.
Mr.. Connolly and State VINO di-
rectors of Maryland, Virginia, West
Virginia and North Carolina will
report at the two-day conference.