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Show All Male Labor Must Now Be Hired Thru U. S. Employment Office 'Since June 30 all employers in the St. George U. S. Employment Service office area and Utah, "other than agricultural and domestic do-mestic employers, state, county and municipal governments, have been required to do all their hiring of male labor through the United States Employment Service or channels that agency may approve," ap-prove," Charles E. Pickett, local office manager, War Manpower Commission's USES said Wednesday. Wednes-day. This restriction, results from the setting up of a nation-wide system of priority referals to give war industries the labor they need. Assumed Responsibility Throughout the country, Mr. Pickett said, the WMC has assumed as-sumed the responsibility of seeing to it that no man goes on a new job without first obtaining a referral refer-ral from the USES. Through its USES field organization the WMC will also undertake immediately the intensive recruiting of men for industries that are faced with critical labor shortages. To make this system work, Mr. Pickett pointed out, employment ceilings have been established in all areas where there is a marked shortage of labor. All over the nation, in one form or another, limits have been fixed beyond which emDlovers mav build ira their working forces. In most areas these ceilings, he said, apply only to male labor. In Utah, however, how-ever, they apply to all labor, men and women. The local Manpower Priorities Committee, working closely with the area manpower director, will consult the local management-labor management-labor committees before any decisions deci-sions are reached. This, Mr. Pickett said, is in line with the policy of headquarters that the approval of both management and labor be sought before any definite de-finite action on major manpower problems is taken. The decision to set up a national priority referral plan had, he emphasized, the endorsement of the National Management-Labor Committee, a committee whose membership includes in-cludes the heads of the two national nati-onal labor organizations, the president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers and the heads of the National Agricultural Agri-cultural Organizations. This plan was initially recommended by Utah's management labor committee. com-mittee. Offices To 'Channel' Labor "The War Manpower cimmission is convinced," Mr. Pickett said, "that its plan to channel all labor through its 1,500 employment offices will go far toward getting the men needed by war industries into the jobs they should have. Under this plan a man will be offered job after job in their order of need to the war effort. This does not mean that a man is going to be arbitrarily ordered to take this or that job but it does mean that if he persistently declines to go to a war job, he may find it hard to get any job. He may get out and find a job but before he is placed on the payroll the employer is going to ask him if he has a referral from the USES. If the employer, on his part, fails to cooperate there are means of bringing him into line. One of the simplest is for the USES to stop referring men (Continued on page eight) D.S.E.S. Report on WMC V Continued from first page) So him." Mr. Pickett said that a worker, under the plan, may be referred tio nther than essential jobs in this area: 1. If he is not needed for any essential job in the community. 2. If he is not able to accept essential jobs outside the area, or 3. If there is undue hardship, special emergency circumstances or other good cause which prevents pre-vents his acceptance of an essential essen-tial job. |