Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-24 | Page 3 | Oregon has Labor Supply in Plenty

OREGON HAS LABOR " SUPPLTMN PLENTY Federal Employment Service Ser-vice Cautions Workmen to Ascertain Needs. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.". Stories of labor la-bor unrest, agitation by radicals and shortage of workers in the northwest were declared today by the United States employment em-ployment service to be greatly exaggerated exagger-ated and misleading. Working men In other sections of the country were warned particularly against going to Oregon without with-out first ascertaining what 'jobs are in sight. Sources of the misleading reports were not mentioned by the service. Statements State-ments recently have been made by department de-partment of justice officials, however, that persons in sympathy with tile enemy were turning their attention to the spreading spread-ing of discontent and false rumors. Only five classes of skilled workers are needed now in the Oregon shipbuilding district, the services announced. These are shipwrights, shipfitters, caulkers, boil-ermakers boil-ermakers and machinists, and only men in the first three trades can proceed with reasonable assurance or employment. Loggers will be needed in early spring. Ail should apply first to the Portland office of the United States employment service. "Seventeen wooden and five steel shipbuilding ship-building concerns are operating now in Otegon and employing 15.000 men," the statement said. "These have a present capacity for ninety ships. Other yards are in contemplation and probably will be built in the near future. This will mean the employment of many more men. Just now the yards in existence will need 3000 more men in the next two months, but only of the five classes enumerated." The public service reserve, the registration regis-tration agency of the employment service, already has obtained the names and qualifications qual-ifications of more than 1,000,000 workers of all classes, who have signified their willingness to go where their services in an industrial capacity to win the war arc needed.