Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-06-18
Need for $4,000
|Workersbefore.
July Reported
Problem in Matching
Applicants and Jobs
Reported byUSES !

Washington employers of COM
munication and retail trade person.
mel need an estimated $4,000 addi.
tional workers by July 1, Fred z.
Hetzel, area director of the United
States Employment Service, said to
day.
Unemployment, however. remains
between 10000 and $4,000 for the
area. Facing its first postwar sum-
mer, the USES reported many Diff
f1culties in matching the jobs to the
men and women applying. ;.
USES does not know how many
OF the openings In the three fields
are temporary vacation jobs. Re-
placements for workers on vacation
accounts for much of the demand
but some of 1t represents SHORTAGES
carried over from the war, Mr.. Het.
Eel said. He estimates the openings
will reach $4,000 when considered
into September:
On its own rolls, the USES has
5000 untitled job orders. In May.
1885 persons sought work through
the USES here and 3,454 were
placed -
Unemployment Leveling on.
Mr.. Hetzel saw leveling of Of
unemployment and a sign that the
peak of the returning veteran load
has been passed.
| The reason for unemployment In
the midst of job opportunities is
simply that applicants cannot AL
the jobs that are open or do not
want them," USES spokesman
explained.
We have to make good with the
employer. If we send him a misfit
he won't call us again. Then there
are lot of people who don't want
to be telephone operators. Veteran,
don't want jobs as messengers"
The USES is working constantly
to improve its work of matching the
jobs and the applicants, he added.
i Many veterans who were in school
during the winter under the CT bill
are applying for summer jobs, USES
reported. School teachers also are
looking for vacation openings.
Only a small percentage will be
experienced enough to fill the thou
sands Of vacation openings in com.
munlcatlons and transportation, but
we hope to match others to some Of
the untitled jobs on f1le," Mr.. Hetzel
said.
Demand for Typists Acute.
The summer jobs mainly are for
streetcar and bus operators, teIe-
phone operators, sales people and
alteration experts for retail shops.
Skis wanted In the alterations field
range from cotton frocks to Vene-
tian blinds. The largest number Of
permanent jobs open are in the
clerical, sales and skilled classes.
Although only 10 per cent of the
persons seeking jobs in May were
women, they took one-third of the
jobs filled. The demand for women
stenographers, typists and ONCE
machine operators remains acute.
according to the USES.
While there is surplus of LAWYERS.
experienced and graduate account
ants are in great demand as are
statesmen willing to work on a COM
mission basis. Auto mechanics with
their own hand tools are almost as
scarce as accountants.
During May, the two local USES
omces piled up the largest number
OF reception contacts ever tailed BY
the USES in Washington. The
number of visits to the Office was
$1,000.
Out of 5,o2s new applications for
work, 1851 were filed by veterans.
Placements amounted to 4S per
cent of the 7,210 referrals made.
Although there were BIT fewer re-
ferrals in May than in April, there
were 224 more placements.