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Show Summary of WMC's New Manpower Controls Given by Director Pickett Charles E. Pickett, manager of of the St. George office of the War Manpower commission's United Uni-ted States Employment service, today gave a summary of WMC's new manpower controls. Here is the gist of the WMCs new and drastic, yet "voluntary" priority referral system for the direction of workers into industries indus-tries and areas where critical shortages now impede the nation's war effort: Local and national war industries indus-tries are put on a manpower priority prior-ity schedule insuring getting first and most important war jobs done first. Ceilings are placed upon employment of all workers in Utah to limit use of manpower to minimum requirements, prevent hoarding and improve utilization of local labor. Manpower is rationed with preference pref-erence to local and national industries in-dustries of greatest war-winning importance through (a) requirement require-ment that all male workers be hired through -the USES or other approved channels, thus, "exposing" "expos-ing" such workers to most, critical job offers, and (b) referring of available workers to most suit-(Continued suit-(Continued on page four) WMC Control Laws (Continued from first page) able jobs in the order of employer's em-ployer's priority. Workers will not be forced to take certain jobs or move to new areas except by limitation of referrals re-ferrals to most vital war jobs after consideration of local manpower needs and worker's qualifications, as well as questions of personal convenience or hardship. Employers will be given widest latitude of workers selection possible pos-sible under local labor market conditions. Success of the plan and avoidance avoi-dance of more drastic controls depends upon public realization that the "hard part of the war is just beginning" and home front manpower must accept voluntarily more difficult assignments while fighting front manpower has little choice. |