Evening star., 1944-03-05
VINO 10 Move
100000 in
This Region
Vast Shift to Fill
War Labor Cops
Is Announced
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.


OO0 men and women to leave
their homes in Washington ane
four neighboring States ane
move to other centers within tn,
region where they can con.
tribute more toward winning the
warwas announced last night by
Regional War Manpower Direc-
tor Henry E. Treide.
AT the same time, he announced
steps had been taken to avert {
new labor pinch, caused by tn,
movement of workers from war cen.
tiers back to their homes.
Mr.. Treide pictured recruitment
campaigns "on scale never before
attempted in this region" which
includes the District, MARYLAND. Vir.
ginia, West Virginia and North
Carolina.
Vast Contracts Reported.
Underlining the extent of the
problem, he revealed for the first
time that major war supply and
facility contracts let in the region
through last December, totaled
s8,293,548 900. The Districts share
In that has been $1O4 1000, with
Maryland getting $4,310927 900, Vir-
ginia. sf966, ,019 900; North Carolina
s1,250,985,O00, and West Virginia
1851, ,166, 900.
Mr.. Treldes announcement was
made in connection with the publi-
cation of an overall report of regional
manpower activities for the past year
and the major steps that must be
taken to provide war employers with
needed labor.
The analysis, which was almost as
comprehensive as last September's
study of the West Coast manpower
crisis, was based on State VINO and
labor reports from essential estab-
Hshments employing more than
100000 workers.
Thousands to Move.
ITO get the war production Job
assigned this region completed on
schedule" said Mr.. Treide, "it will
be necessary for hundreds of thous-
sands of persons to move into acute
labor shortage areas where war
plants are engaged on contracts of
vital Importance to this years big
offensives abroad"
About 10000 workers, he said, will
be transferred by the United States
Employment Service from one State
to another to fill specific job orders
placed by war plants, while the bal
ance of the 100000 workers who
must move will go from one COM
munity to another, if the recruit
ment campaign is successful.
Mr.. Treide estimated that ap-
proximately 100000 persons through
out this region now engaged in
less-essential work will have to
move to war activities. He added
that war industries can use an addi-
tional 100000 women this year.
Movements Decline.
Wide shifts in the working pop
ulation in 1941 and 1912, he said. had
made 1t possible to staff war plants
and from 1910 to 1943 more than
100000 workers moved from their
homes to take war jobs in other
communities in the region.
BY late 1943, however, he said, the
flow of workers into war centers
had slowed down and in many in
stances workers were moving out
of war centers faster than they
were moving in.
He reported that stricter con-
trolls over hiring practices by en-
ployers and the movement of labor
from one job to another are being
put into effect, but warned that
unless such movement of migrant
workers back to home communities
can be stemmed, war plants will ex-
perlence increasing difficulty in
maintaining adequate personnel"
Because of labor turnover. the
need for increasing the net size of
the labor force in this region and
the need to supply requirements
for those entering the armed forces.
he said, USES offices throughout
the region will have to place 965.-
600 persons in war jobs this year.
Findings Listed.
The report also listed these find
ings:
/. Under pressure of war demands
the QUriP11lfI1ro1 10 -.
the region has increased by 100000
workers, reaching total of $500 900
at the end of last year.
2. Exceptionally farge" popula-
ton increases have taken place in
Washington with a gain of 261 IT'S;
Hampton Roads, Va, an increase of
1875, 5,802, and Baltimore, an increase
of 119,868.
3. At the end of 1943 the labor
turnover rate for essential indus
tries reporting to VINO was the
lowest for any period since late in
1941.
q. Between May and December,
1943, about 100000 workers were
persuaded not to ask for statements
CT availability or quit slips" after
discussing the proposed job change
with USES officials. Statements of
availability were granted by USES
to 63l 900 others and denied to g.
2S5.
5. The 130 USES Offices in the
region placed 784,691 workers in jobs
during 1943, an increase of % per
cent over the previous year.
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