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Show Critical Need Stressed In Manpower By Local U. S. E. S. Office Ceilings for men workers will be slashed throughout Utah this week to provide men for war industries in immediate critical need of workers, Charles E. Pickett, manager of the St. George office announced today. The war man power commission hopes in many instances to "borrow" "bor-row" men from local employers on a 90-day basis. Of 100,000 workers needed nationally na-tionally to insure production of material needed immediately by U. S. armed forces, Utah has been asked . to supply 2000, or about 2. "Big Four" on Utah's list of. critical industries are Clearfield naval supply depot and 'Geneva steel mills, nationally designated, and nonferrous metal and coal mines, 'state designated. Trailing the big four, but also holding top priority are Tooele ordnance depot and Deseret chemical warfare depot. Out of state needs are slight but involve specific skills, Mr. Pickett said. "If a man is a skilled ship repairer, we can't give him a laboring shop in Utah while battlescarred ships wait in Pearl Harbor for repairs." Pasco, Washington, secret war industry manufacturing a tremendously tremen-dously important war weapon, needs workers urgently and high production may shorten the war greatly. In an effort to pry "skilled electricians loose from shoe-selling jobs." and other potentiallly valuable valu-able war workers from less essential es-sential work, teams of canvassers will scour Utah towns looking for available war workers. Their schedule for this area is as follows: St. George U. S. Employment Service, Sept. 15. Hurricane Legion hall, Sept. 16. |