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Show Worker Needs Are Up, Employment Report Shows Although the total number' of job openings received by offices of the Utah Department Depart-ment of Employment Security declined moderately from 1,528 to 1,382 due to the Columbus Day holiday, calls for workers from Utah employers em-ployers on a daily basis during dur-ing the week ending October 14, were up 12 per cent over the previous week, it was reported by Manly B. Lincoln manager of the Moab employment employ-ment security office. In fact, at 346, job offers were at the highest daily rate received so far this year. Among the influencing factors was the seasonal start up of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Co. processing plant at Garland. Gar-land. Because of the continuing strong labor demand, Employment Em-ployment Security offices, particularly those along the Wasatch Front, are seeking ways to increase the flow of job seekers in certain occupations oc-cupations in their offices. For example the Salt Lake metropolitan- office has a heavy demand for clerical workers (especially stenographers and bookkeepers), experienced experienc-ed draftsmen, skilled workers work-ers (journeyman machinists; auto mechanics, and auto body repairmen), power sewing 'machine operators, con- struction workers, drivers, and semi-skilled and unskilled unskill-ed laborers in several categories, cate-gories, Mr. Lincoln said. Continued claims for unemployment un-employment insurance declined de-clined negligibly from 6,959 to 6,945 which may turn out to be the lowpoint for 1972 because of the brief surge of initial claims filed last week by seasonal employees at the Ogden Internal Revenue i Center receiving late in the year furloughs. |