The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-12
STATE INDUSTRIES
 EXPECT INCREASE
6l Industrialists Respond Encouragingly to Na-
 tiOnal Labor Survey

Connecticut's manufacturing in dustries will be able to employ 39o6 more workers after the war than they did before the war, according to a survey recently completed by the National Association of Manu- lecturers. This gain in employment is reflected in the replies to ques- tionnaire turned in by 61 manufac- turers who now employ little more than 13To of the total workers in manufacturing in this state.
 The survey indicates that there will be about 91, 500 more industrial jobs in Connecticut after the Japs are licked than there were when war broke out in Europe. This fig ure is computed by applying the survey data to the employment fig ures in the Census of Manufactures for 1889. In 1889 there were about 233 800 people working in factories in this state. After the postwar re- conversion period there should be rise to 325, 900 industrial workers.
 Some Exceptions Indicated
 It is true that some manufactur- CTS will not be able to make a showing better than pre-war, but the great majority will. The NAM questionnaires revealed that only 3% of the states factories will have fewer jobs than in 1889. About 8qo will employ the same number as in 1899. That leaves a balance of 89fo of Connecticut's manufacturers planning for an increase in jobs af- ter the transition to peacetime pro- duction.
 Factory workers temporarily laid of due to reconversion might run as high as 91 400 but 81 per cent of this number would be out less than four weeks. The remainder of about 17,600 would face more than four weeks of unemployment. However, by the end of twelve weeks prac- tically all of these would be back on the job in one shop or another.
 Thus the more serious part of re- conversion unemployment, the IT, 500 who may be out more than four weeks, should clear up within three months of a reconversion signal. These workers constitute about one out of every thirteen now in Con- necticut factories. They will have to draw on unemployment insurance and personal savings for two or three months to tide over the tram sition. The other 12 out of 13 work CTS apparently will not face any very serious problem of unemploy- ment.
 Voluntary Withdrawals
 Apart from those who will be tenn porarily laid of as a direct result Of reconversion, a considerable number of the present workers in factories will want to withdraw for various reasons when the war job is done. Many patriotic citizens, men and women, left other occupa- tions to get into the industrial pro- duction line for war. Some will want to go back and complete their edu- cation. A good many housewives will want to go back to the children and normal home activities.
 It is estimated that somewhere between 10000 and 10000 Connecti- cut industrial workers on the job to- day may withdraw voluntarily when the war is definitely finished. This does not mean that all of them will quit working for pay. Many will go into service or construction indus tries, or back to farming, or start their own businesses. Meanwhile, veterans will come back and reenter manufacturing and many other lines as some of the present workers shift around and make changes.
 When the entire transition to full scale peactime production has been completed, factory employment may be considerably below the top of the wartime peak, according to the NAM survey. However, it will also be far above pre-war and vii repre- sent the highest level of factory en- ployment ever enjoyed by the State of Conencticut in peacetime.