Evening star., 1947-04-02
Funds Cut Increases
i Job-Huniing Problem.
uses Aides Assert
Persons looking for work viii have


a harder time discovering whai
jobs are open and where they car
be found II House approved cuts In
the United States Employment
Service budget are voted by the
Senate. USES officials said today.
For the agency. the budget cut
would mean the 875 employees would
be reduced to 202. OF the 718 EN-
ployed in Washington. SIC would
be dismissed, officials said. Each OF
the IL regional offices would be
closed completely,
The House economy ak also cut
deeply into another Labor Depart
ment agency-the Bureau Of Labor
Statistics. Evan Clague, commits
sioner, said TOO of the LOO en-
ployes here would be dismissed il
cuts were upheld in the Senate. In
all, about 1000 Of the 1,700 would
be let go, he stated.
2,o0O, 900 Seen Affected.
The more than 1000 900 workers
who move from one part of the
Nation to another as jobs and the
seasons cali them will be most af-
fected of all non Government work
ers by the USES budget cut. They
include construction workers, lum-
berjacks and food packers. Usually
they depend on USES Offices for
information as to where jobs are
open.
Restrictions imposed by the cut
would mean that State-operated
USES offices would lack knowledge
of job conditions outside their own
States.
Packers and Gamers have come
TO depend on USES to recruit a
large part of their labor. This
practice would be halted entirely,
officials said.
Many employers in the past have
asked USES to find out whether
plenty of labor was available in a
place where they wanted to build
new plant. Not infrequently the
USES report determined whether
the plant was built Such service
will be strictly a thing of the past
if the cut is approved.
End to Special Programs.
Special programs designed to help
veterans and handicapped workers
get jobs also will be eliminated.
Many veterans who will graduate
from college this spring will have
less chance of finding a job where
they want to establish their homes
than they would If USES were
operating at full capacity, agency
officials said.
A list of persons with highly SCI
entif1c and specialized skills Is kept
by USES. 1t soon will become obso-
lete because of lack of employees to
keep it up to date. This list, said
a USES statement, is "the only
register of our scientific
manpower resources.
A Dictionary Of Occupational
Titles, containing some 10000 job
and listings will be
abandoned also. This helped en-
ployers, labor unions and Govern
ment workers understand exactly
what was meant when a specific job
was mentioned.
II Per Cent Cut.
The House cut the USES request
for s3.s12,0o0 to 5000, o,o00-77 per
cent. The Bureau of Labor Sta
tsitics was cut from requested
s6,675, 100 to S2373,o00. The Labor
will go before the Sen
ate Appropriations Subcommittee
in an attempt to have at
least part of the reductions restored.
If the BIS budget is trimmed.
fewer facts and figures would be
gathered to show the condition of
in the country and
whether the cost of living Is high or
low.
The cost of living index. used by
and labor to help de-
termine whether wage increases are
warranted. would be issued quarterly
instead of monthly and would have
fewer facts, Mr.. Clague said.
For its present housing statistics.
which includes figures on the num-
ber of dwelling units started and
every month, the bureau
would substitute a national estimate.
Studies Seen Discontinued.
Figures on the employment, pay
rolls and earnings in each State
would be discontinued entirely. So
would figures showing the dealer-t to-
contractor prices of building mate
rials in SO major cities.
Studies of wage rates, undertaken