The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-08-23
LIFT MANPoWER CONTROL

LIFT MANPOWER CONTROL
Lifting of all manpower controls
and resumption of full service to all
employers and workers, is the man.
power program announced for Mon
tana in response to President Tru-
mans statement that the war is
ended. In making Immediately eff
fective the new program, O. c. Lam
port, state manpower director, no.
titled Manager Gordon E. Redpath,
of the Kalispell office of the United
States Employment Service to di-
rect all effort toward providing job
opportunities in tune with the. re-
conversion program.
Montana modified its manpow-
er for war industries through eff
fective action of the employment
service" Mr.. Lamport declares. ut
should now mobolize its manpower
to meet peacetime requirements.
Jobs for returning veterans, jobs
for returning war workers, jobs for
those who did war work in their
home community, these are impera-
tive as we swing back into peace
time production.
A seven-point manpower program
effective today for the employment
service includes:
|. All manpoWer controls dis
solved. Voluntary community ac-
ton to speed resumption of civilian
production is substituted.
2. Labor management Commit
tees and representative local groups
will study employment problems
arising from displaced workers, re-
turning veterans and war workers,
and other dis-locations, assisting the
employment service in placing all
available applicants in work.
3. Full facilities of the United
States Employment Service will
again be extended to all employers
the war restrictions no longer
apply.
4. Expanded services will be rem
dered to veterans to assist in their
readjustment to civilian employ
ment.
5. Increased emphasis will be CIV
en- to job counseling and other per-
sonalized services to assist job seek
peace-time jobs.
6. Job advice concerning oppor-
tunities elsewhere will be made
available at USES offices for guild
ance of workers not readily abb
sorbed in local jobs.
7. USES offices will give prefer
entail treatment to all reconversion
activities as means toward stabil-
izing employment for all workers
Montana people contributed
magnificiently to the war effort,
says Mr. Lamport THAT contribu-
ton will continue into peacetime
through using the same facilities
which directed war workers into
useful work to direct returning
workers and war veterans into CT
william jobs
Controls revoked now include the
employment sterilization program
with required statement of avail
bility and priority referral, employ
ment ceilings and the compulsory
48-hour work week. These controls
were originally imposed in defer
ence to abor-management commit
tees. In Montana these committees
concurred in the removal in an
ticipation of VI Day.
These same labor management
committees are being asked to con-
tinue into peacetime operations as
consultants with employment serv-
ice and manpoWer officials. In adj
dition the program calls for enlist
ment of local employers, labor I'M
ions, civic organizations and COM
munity leaders in efforts to con-
tinue full employment and sustained
buying power as home markets re-
turn to an economy of abundance.
Continued interchange Of in
formation on job opportunities on a
countrywide basis as developed
during wartime, is planned for en-
ployment service operations" Mr.
Lamport states. 1.-THE primary work
ing object Of USES is. to give max
imum assistance to employers in
finding the right helpers, and to
applicants in finding the right jobs
This will be greatly aided if en-
ployers, everywhere, list their job
openings at our offices and if work
ers in all categories apply to those
offices when out of work. Contin-
ued cooperation of Montana employ
ers, workers, and the public gen.
orally will write the answer to re-
conversion and unemployment
problems in Montana"