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Show MORE JOBS TO BE AVAILABLE IN THE SPRING The Utah employment picture during the coming spring will be 'brighter than it was during that part of 1917 or 1916, B. L. Flanagan, Flana-gan, executive director, state department de-partment of employment security, predicted this week. There are more job seekers during dur-ing the early part of the year than at any other time because seasonal employment is at a low ebb. But growing nonseasonal industrial employment is easing the 'yearly slump. The month was characterized by sharp rises and drops in the employment em-ployment market, all of a seasonal nature. Mr. Flanagan attributed a 21 increase in the number of job seekers registered in the month ended Jan. 1 to agricultural and food processing layoffs and temporary entry of students into the labor market. Veterans seeking work increased 1100, while the number of female job applicants dropped 200. Aged and handicapped persons are findr ing it increasingly difficult to get work. Of 2044 job oDenings in - December. 1837 were filled. Employment during the month totaled. 216.900. a decline from November's 223,200 and the almost identical levels of September and October high months for the year of approximately 231,000. |