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Show Immigration Loss Blamed For Present Shortage of Labor in United States If every soldier were back on his old Job the country would still be 4,000,000 short of Its normal number of workers due to the loss of ItnmlRrutlon lh Inst four yonrx; If Industry docs not quickly develop some means for overcoming this shortage It will be seriously ser-iously handicapped In nilJiistliiR Itself to new conditions, say ofllcluls of tho United Slates training servlco of tho department nf labor. They point out (hut tho country has Bono without Its normal supply of nencc-tlinu commodities for years and now It must replenish freely. Furthermore Fur-thermore Kurope has Inst millions of men mid tens of billions of property In the devastated regions must bo made Rood. It Is urged that to meet this extraordinary situation tho workers work-ers In factories and shops must bo nsslsted by Increasing their skill and Interest In their work. The estimated estimat-ed shortage In this country of 700,-000 700,-000 houses Is cited as showing how far the nation Is behind normal production. produc-tion. , Training courses In the industrial plants, conducted at tho employer's 'expense, aro advocated as ono of the practical means or putting Industry on a uormal footing. More than 350 firms have already Instituted courses of this sort and according to reports .received by the training servlcej- hava benefited n'bejter nroJuctfon amT reduced re-duced turnover. The workers on the ojberhand havo' Increased their skill antTbroatTened their knowledge, of their trades." f "itmTV" |
