The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-18
USES Offices
 Will Become
 Job Centers
Plan to Speed Listing of Post Wor Openings

Hartford, Aug. 10 With PreS- ident Harry s. Truman proclaimtng the war with Japan as ended, State Director William J. Fitzgerald ot the War Manpower Commission to- day announced that all manpower controls were lifted in the state ef- fective immediately.
 These include, he said, employ ment stabilization and requirements for statements of availability; pri- ority referral and all forms of con- trols which have been in effect in Connecticut for more. than one and one half years.
 At the same time Director Fitz- gerald announced that the War Manpower Commission had shifted the states mobilization of manpower for war industries to peace time reconversion program that will speed maximum job opportunities for war workers, returning World War II Veterans and others of the war time labor force.
 IS Cities Affected
 The WMC-USES offices in each of the 18 cities in Connecticut will be set up immediately as community job centers to speed the listing and classification of postwar job open ings by all employers and manufac- turers in Connecticut.
 The state War Manpower pro- gram which made possible our great war production record in planes, ammunitions, ball-bearings, atomic bomb parts and other war materials will now transfer emphasis to ac- celerated job opportunities for every available worker. In the state and area the offices of the U. s. Em- ployment Service will intensity its long range program to find, classify and fill civilian job vacancies from the war labor force and veterans applications"
 The U. s. Employment Service will meet the responsibility of post war employment and subsequent re- distribution of war workers into a reconversion labor market with all its resourceful employment exper- fence that marked its wartime rec ord of staffing critical war plants in the state under emergency condi- tionS.
 Reconversion employment, MT. Fitzgerald said, will have top prior ity in all U. s. Enjoyment Service offices in Connecticut in line with strictly military and rehabilitation requirements. The state and area offices of the War Manpower Com mission will work with the local USES Managers in giving special employment service to those indus tries offering the widest range of civilian job opportunities, MT. Fitz- gerald said.
 The war time team work of labor management, agriculture and gov- ernment as represented by the WING Area Labor Management Committees will be carried over into the post V-J Day period to map blue-prints of increased peacetime work and industrial expansion that will provide maximum employment in every community of the state.
 Cooperation Asked The War Manpower Commission is speeding plans for community wide mobilization of all groups that will increase nstings of job open ings in the offices of the United States Employment Service. Man power officials and USES managers acting with management-labor com- mittees urge local employers, labor unions and civic leaders to coop crate in the continuance of volun- tary manpower programs that will lead to the greatest possible volume of community employment. The U. s. Employment Service will work with labor, employer, local, state and federal agencies in organiza- tion of community campaigns to accomplish three major goals-O to speed re-tooling plans for civil ian production by matching work