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Show Skills and Trades Of Utahns To Be Catalogued Information To Be Used To Help Nation Secure Best War Effort Another drive to calatog the skills of Utah workers has been initiated initi-ated by the Selective Service system, sys-tem, which in cooperation with the United States Employment Service for Utah will classify oc-cupationally oc-cupationally all those who registered regis-tered on Feb. 16 in the draft. C. E. Pickett, manager of the St. George office of the U. S. Employment Em-ployment service, explains that the Selective Service occupational census cen-sus is based upon the one already compelted in Utah by the U. S. Employment service. It will not duplicate the work done by the Employment service, however, for it will reach a great number not reached in the first census. Urges Draft Registrants Mr. Pickett urges all draft registrants reg-istrants to remember that completing com-pleting the Selective Service questionnaire ques-tionnaire is mandatory, even if the registrants have already filled out the occupational census form sheet sent them several months ago. The information received on the questionnaire will be used by the Employment service to help each invidual make his maximum war effort. The Employment service does not have the right to tell anyone where he can work or where he cannot work, but when a vital industry needs a worker and when the Employment service can find a qualified individual, negotiations ne-gotiations can be started whereby (Continued on page eight) Trades Catalogued (Continued from first page) the worker can be placed on the job. Should the worker already be employed, the transfer can be negotiated with the current employer, em-ployer, the new employer, and the individual, all agreeing to the conditions of transfer. The recent occupational census in Utah uncovered about 2,500 workers who are available for jobs vital to defense and negotiations nego-tiations for the transfer of several sev-eral of these have already been started. To Be Sent To Others Later the Selective Service questionnaire containing the special spe-cial section to be used by the Employment service will be sent to the other civilians between the ages of IS and 64 those who have already registered for Selective Se-lective service and those who still have to, so that the' U. S. Employment Em-ployment service will have a complete com-plete picture of the Nation's male labor resources. When the total registration is completed, the U. S. Employment servce will have information in-formation about the occupational skills of 40 million men, Mr. Pickett Pick-ett said. "We know the employer's side of the labor supply problem as to requirements in terms of numbers of workers and kinds of skills needed," Mr. Pickett explained. "Now there are seven million workers on the payrolls of war industries, and when the war production pro-duction program reaches its height it is estimated that this figure will reach at least 17 million." |