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Show STATES CALLED ON FOR WARWORKERS STEPS TAKEN BY GOVERNMENT TO MEET SHORTAGE OF LABORERS IN NATION. Quotas of Unskilled Labor to be-Furnished be-Furnished by Various States During Next Two ..Months Announced By Secretary Wilson. Washington. Allotments of quotas, of unskilled labor to be furnished by the various states to war industries during the next two months under the system of government recruiting put Into operation on August 1 under the United States employment service were announced by the department of labor. By assigning quotas of unskilled laborers labor-ers to be furnished in each state, th employment service took the first step in meeting the shortage of common laborers estimated by reports received Thursday as approximately 500.000. The announcement of the state quotas followed a conference here of repesentatives of a dozen war industries indus-tries with officials of the department of labor. The estimated labor needs of each of the Industries was submitted by the representatives and these estimates esti-mates will be used in apportioning the first quotas. Among the state quotas announced are the following: Arizona. 1350 ; California, 21.533; Colorado, 5175 ; Idaho 11,035 ; Illinois, 40.230; Iowa, 5S05 ; Kansas, 5175; Minnesota, 9405; Missouri. 12.915; Montana, 30G0 ; Nebraska. 41S5; Nevada, Neva-da, S10 ; New Mexico, 5S5 ; New York, 8(5.490; Oklahoma, 3S70; Oregon, 4410; Pennsylvania, 42.570; South Dakota 1350; Texas, 7290; Utah. 2115; Washington, Wash-ington, 11,340; Wisconsin, S0S5; Wyoming, Wyo-ming, 900. The quotas, it was said, are the net requirements of the various war industries indus-tries and do not make allowance for -xtra needs or for labor turnover. Compete Com-pete returns of the labor needs are expected ex-pected by August 15. and when the estimates es-timates made at that time are tabulated, tabulat-ed, a supplemental list of quotas will be issued. State directors of the employment employ-ment service were instructed to begin immediately the apportioning or the state quotas among the local districts. dis-tricts. In the industrial states the quotas announced Thursday average about 5 per cent of the estimated number of men not in military service or already engaged in war work, agriculture, mining min-ing or transportation. In western and southern agricultural states, the average aver-age percentage is somewhat higher, as allowance has been made for unfilled unfill-ed labor needs. |