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Show OCCUPATION CENSUS IS BEING I CONDUCTED IN UTAH i Control of two outstanding evils of defense production pirating of : workers by employers and the ! needless importation of workers into an area is -a story behind the occupational census of Utah which i is to be conducted by the department depart-ment of employment security beginning be-ginning this week. t Questionnaires will be distributed distribut-ed to 100,000 workers through the 1 7000 employers covered by the Utah unemployment insurance act. Several thousand more questionnaires question-naires will be sent to public employees em-ployees and plans are underway to give all other workers an opportunity oppor-tunity to fill out the questionnaire. Other phases of the survey will include in-clude statistical samples taken in certain rural areas by rural route questionnaires and special house-to-house surveys in selected cities. The chief item of the questionnaire question-naire is a check list of 187 defense occupations in which labor shortages short-ages exist. Workers are expected to go over this list carefully and place a check mark opposite the occupation in which they have had experiene or training. There is also a space in which the worker can give a brief explanation of the occupation oc-cupation listed or in which he can designate some skill or training . not included in the list of 187. |