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Show to provide at least 500 opening in the next year, and these will T filled only by honorably discha,, ed service men. g" WAR PLANT HIRING ONLY VETERANS One of the first war plants in the East, if not in the nation, to began hiring discharged veterans of this war announced on Armistice Armis-tice Day that it would take on a probable total of 500 during the next year. Already the plant, which makes troop-carrying gliders now and plans to resume making sports planes in postwar, has hired 20 former fighting men in skilled assembly jobs. This was in response to recommendations recom-mendations made recently by the board of directors of the National Association of Manufacturers that employers make special efforts to hire men who had received medical medi-cal discharges from the armed forces. At present, women constitute 45 per cent of the plant's force which for security reasons, is numbered only in "four figures." Its present rate of labor turnover is expected |