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Show Steel Industry Has 4,000 Different Jobs Says Magazine Four thousand or more separate and distinct jobs are found in the steel industry, the American Iron and Steel Institute said todoy. That estimate comes through analysis ana-lysis of a study of jobs in the industry made under the direction of the committee on industrial relations re-lations of the institute. About 30 separate departments were covered in the study. A total to-tal of 5030 separate descriptions were made for the jobs selected from those 30 departments. Since only typical organizations were described, the actual total number num-ber of separate jobs which might be found in the industry could be much more than 5030. The total combined number of common and alternate titles recorded was 13,396. Some estimates indicate that if a complete list of all titles used for all jobs could be compiled, the total would reach 50,000 to 60,000. During the study, certain jobs, such as foreman, millwright, roller rol-ler and time clerk, were found in many or each of these departments. depart-ments. When these duplications were eliminated from the total list of jobs, the number of separate and distinct jobs was reduced to approximately 4000. Other estimates esti-mates are known to have put this ' total in the neighborhood of 4500 to 5000 separate and distinct jobs. Only about 10 per cent of all the workers in the steel industry can be classified as unskilled. The great mass of the workers belong td the semi-skilled and skilled classifications. In addition, there are many thousands of positions in the executive, supervisory, technical tech-nical and staff classifications in sales offices scattered through the country. The industry has a great many men who have been with it most of their lives. Many came into the industry practically as strangers strang-ers and today hold positions of skill, trust and responsibility. They consitiute the backbone of its stable and loyal working force. |