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Show EMPLOYMENT OFFICE AIDS WORKER FIND DEFENSE WORK A. J. Tillman, acting director of the Idaho State Emsiloyuient Service Ser-vice today directed the attention of ail firms in Idaho holding defense de-fense 'Contracts to a le'ter of February Feb-ruary 27 from William S. Knudsen, director of the Office of Production Management, calling for the recruitment re-cruitment of labor through the State t .nployment offices. This letter, sent to all persons with contracts calling foi the swift output of defense materials, ranging rang-ing from battleships and tanks to a wide variety of textiles and: even sponges urges employers to utilize the local state employment offices to meet their labor needs and to refrain from recruiting workers outside of their localities without first checking with Employment Service. Mr. Knudsen says in his letter that many employers, instead of fully utilizing the local labor supply sup-ply through the medium of their local employment office have engaged en-gaged in "labor scouting and Nation-wide advertising and have needlessly duplicated existing recruiting re-cruiting and placement facilities." These practices result in "m necessary migration of labor high rates of . labor turnover, distur-bances distur-bances of established labor stani ards in local areas, and otbtr "wasteful and inefficient practk-which practk-which the nation cannot a,'W when,' every effort must be bent to ward full and efficient utiliati;: of all our resources." |