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Show Defense Rush Brings Jobs To Older Men WASHINGTON Secretary Perkins Per-kins reported Sunday that demands de-mands for skilled labor had resulted re-sulted in many national defense industries in-dustries lifting bans against older workers.' In a letter to Senator Mead (D), New York, the labor secretary commented, howeer, that " there is no doubt whatever but that many private industries still hold to a relatively low. hiring age limit." Miss Perkins said that a California Cali-fornia aircraft company put on several hundred men in the age group 50 to 65 when she suggested this solution for a lack of skilled help. She said a Baltimore aircraft air-craft company obtained "300 badly needed machinists by modifying Its previous age hiring policy." The New York senator has asked a senate investigation of "discrimination "discrim-ination against older workers in employment with the government and with defense industries." Mead said spokesmen for the railroad industry had informed him the "age limitation wll not be permtted to Interfere in employment" employ-ment" during the present emergency emer-gency nad that other private corporations cor-porations engaged in defense work informed him they were "liberalizing "liberal-izing age policies and propose to hire skilled middle aged and older workers." |