| Show I U s. s Plans Jobs for far Silk Workers Left Idle by Shutdown Order W WASHINGTON Aug 2 UP A uP-A A Aplan plan to transfer thousands of silk workers to other employment ment largely iii Iri defense Industries was was announced Saturday by Paul V. V McNutt federal security adminIstrator administrator admin admin- following a government order to cease cease production in the industry at midnight McNutt said the bureau of employment employment em em- security bad instructed its regional labor supply officers t to arrange arrange for the registration by state employment services of all those whose jobs are threatened because of ot the shortage of silkA silkA silkA silk A large proportion or of the workers work work- ers in the silk industry he e asserted asserted as as- are women who have a high degree of manual dexterity Such workers are very well qualified qualified quail quail- fied fled for light assembly work in defense plants and for many essential essential essential essen essen- jobs in the manufacture of muI munitions mu mu- and time fuse time fuse fuse apparatus I The silk industry is LS concentrated In the heavy industrial l Of the east including New England and the south where e there has been greatest demand for defense defene I workers and where labor h has been imported from other tens areas t l McNutt said that fortunately I d On m Pate Pare Two Column Four I U UI U. S Si 8 WILL SHIFT I SILK WORKERS Continued iron from Page One the unemployment compensation system in every state would help heU heUthe the unemployed silk workers to io bridge the gap between th the old job and the new one with a minimum amount of hardship The order had the result of freezing every bale of raw silk in the hands of mills and warehouses warehouses warehouses ware ware- houses preparatory to possible I requisitioning by the army and navy navy who would thereby gain a year two-year supply of silk for parachutes parachutes parachutes para para- chutes powder bags and other defense defense de de- defense de- de necessities The action resulting from restrictions restrictions re re- re- re on trade with Japan source of virtually all American silk left manufacturers with no alternatives but indefinite shutdown shutdown shutdown shut shut- down or a switch-over switch as rapidly as possible to the use of rayon nylon or other synthetic fiber Mills having stocks of thrown silk fiber ready for weaving weaving may may c continue lue to unc tion non out cut onty omy until supply or oX thrown silk is used up Otherwise only firms which hold army and navy orders and which obtain s specific specific e- e permission from may operate Support Union Plan Representatives of management and alike who were gathered gathered gathered gath gath- ered in Washington Friday for a a conference on the heightening emergency threw their support generally behind a union-conceived union plan pian for reorganization of the industry industry industry in in- with liberal use of federal funds It was advanced by Emil president of the C CIO I 1 0 Textile Workers Union of America and provided That rayon and other synthetic fiber production be increased a about out pounds a year through federal financing of plant expansion expansion sion slon to make up the loss of the 35 to pounds poundS' of silk normally imported That existing and future V stocks of synthetics and fine cotton yarn be allocated under government control control con con- among all processors Relief Suggested That the government provide relief funds to support workers and their families through the readjustment readjustment readjustment readjust readjust- ment period provide W P A retraining retraining retraining re re- re- re training programs at good wages to fit workers for new defense jobs and furnish transportation from idle silk areas to areas of defense production Urges Rayon Raon Use The use of domestic nylon ny ny- ny- ny lon Ion and high-grade high cotton yarn would make the Untied States self self- sustaining in textiles said As an immediate step he urged that hat idle rayon pr producing machinery machinery machin machin- ery rated by him as being able to o furnish pounds a year be je brought into production Current Current Current Cur Cur- rent annual American rayon output output output out out- i put is pounds i Women's purchases of hosiery I were the bulwark of the trade I government officials said It was estimated that 89 per cent of the imports went into stockings Between Between Between Be Be- tween 46 and dozen pairs of silk hosiery were turned out annually A government official meanwhile meanwhile meanwhile mean mean- while issued a warning to women not to pay more than they norm normally normally nor nor- m mally lly have for h hosiery and appealed appealed ap ap- ap- ap pealed to them not to purchase large supplies of stockings now |
