Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-08-19
Labor Shortage
Will Continue
Here, VINO
Many Areas Expect
Unemployment Crisis
By October IS
BY MIRIAM GUTENBERG.

pTODlcUlS, ILle war MdupOWeT COul-
mission said last night.
The District was listed by VINO
as one of the nine areas where less
than 4 per cent of the workers will
be unemployed and an actual short
age of labor will exist.
Nine other areas, among the Ma
tons 1853 principal labor market
areas are at the other extreme in
the VINO postwar survey-facing
the prospect of extremely serious
temporary unemployment" with 20
to Is per cent of the workers out of
jobs.
Prisoner Use to Be Halted.
VINO also announced that use of
prisoners Of war in nonagricultural
jobs will be halted when American
workers are available.
VINO Chief McNutt said field
Offices of his agency and Offices of
the United States Employment
Service already have been directed
to re-examine certificates authoriz-
ing the use OF prisoners to make
certain that none are employed
where American workers are avail
able.
He reported that approximately
$4,000 POWs now are working at
''hard-to-flll' jobs in food process
ing plants, foundries. forestry and
other industries where critical labor
shortages existed.
Repatriation Program.
The War Department, he said, is
going ahead with repatriation pro-
gram which calls for the gradual
closing down of POW camps and
the shipping out of these men as
rapidly as possible.
On his postwar predictions for
American workers, Mr.. McNutt said
he was basing his estimates on the
national pattern of munitions cut
backs expected during the next two
months, the expected rate of mills
tary rehabilitation and estimates O.
the anticipated evaporation" from
the labor force caused by women
going back home, the retirement of
older workers, the return of youths
to school and the departure of work.
ers from industrial sections.
VINO predicted that the areas
which at least temporarily will face
serious unemployment by mid
October include Portland, Me-: Buff
falo-Niagara Falls, N. Y; Detroit
and Flint, Mich; Talladega, Ala. !;
Panama City, Fla; Wichita, Kans. :;
Los Angeles, Calf, and Portland,
Greg. In these areas, according to
the VINO prediction, 20 to Is per
cent of the work force will be I'M
employed.
8 Areas Classed With d. C.
The survey indicated that by mid
October, IL to 20 per cent Of the
work force will be jobless in SO areas
and that to IL per cent will be
unemployed in IT areas.
The eight other areas classed with
Washington were listed as Ashe-
vile, N. c.; Richmond, Va; Column
bus, Ga: Butte, Mont; Ogden,
Utah; Tooele, Utah; Cheyenne,
Wyo., and Ventura Oxnard, Calf.
The areas where a surplus of
labor but not actual unemploy-
ment distress is predicted for mid
October by VINO included:
Mobile, Ala; Little Rock and Pine
Bluff, Ark; San Bernardino-R River
side, San Diego, San Francisco, San
Jose and Stockton, Calf; Bridge
port, Hartford, Meriden, New Haven
and New London, Conn; Jackson
vile and Tampa, Fla; Atlanta,
Brunswick, Macon and Savannah,
Ga; Chicago, Joliet and Spring.
f1eld-Decatur, ILL.,; Anderson, Evans
vile, indianapolis and South Bend,
Ind, and Des Moines, Iowa.
Also, Louisville, KY; New Orleans
and Shreveport, La; Bath, Maine
Baltimore and Hagerstown, Md;
Boston, Lynn-Salem and Spring.
field Holyoke Northampton, Mass. !;
Grand Rapids, Muskegon and Sag
inaw-Bay City, Mich; Minneapolis
st. Paul. Mimi; Pascagoula, Miss. :;
Kansas City and st. Louis, Mo. !;
Omaha, Nebr.; Portsmouth, N. H.;
Newark. N. j.; Elmira, N. Y; Will
mington, N. c.; Akron, Cincinnati,
Dayton-Springfield, Lima, Sandusky
and Toledo, Ohio; Oklahoma City
and Tulsa, Okla; Lancaster, Pa:
Providence, R. l.; Kingsport-Bristol,
Memphis and Nashville, Tenn. :;
Beaumont, Dallas, Fort Worth.
Houston and Texarkana, Texas;
Seattle and Tacoma, Wash, and
Manitowoc, Wis.