Show SHORTAGE OF LABOR NOW NO IS PREDICTED Opening of Ind Industry stry and Farming in Spring to Provide Jobs By Associated Press WASHINGTON Feb 7 Fears Fears of long con continued unemployment were discounted in a statement by the training training train train- ing service of the department of labor which predicted that when agriculture and industrial concerns get under way in the spring there will be a shortage of of several million men Manufacturers l ers rs were urged to begin at once a training program to increase e the efficiency efficiency effi efi- clency of the help hep they now have In fn anticipation of the shortage to come later a The statement said that practical cessation of o immigration in the last ast four tour years had caused a loss of 2500 new inhabitants and that probably probably probably proba proba- bly American workers would be under arms in France rance for tor many months Estimating that farms in the spring would need workers and that factories and building operations operations operations opera opera- would require large numbers officials said there soon would be keen competition between factories and farmers for unskilled labor Similar views were expressed before the house appropriations committee by Secretary Post and John B. B Densmore director general of the federal federal fed fed- eral employment service They appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap to urge an appropriation of for the work of the employment employment employ employ- m ment nt service during the next fiscal year and a deficiency appropriation of ot for this year The officials said the increasing labor la la labor bor bar surplus in large industrial industria centers shown by reports to the department of labor was not regarded as presenting a serious situation as quick industrial a was expected throughout the country and there then would be ample work for all They gave no estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate of ot the present number of |