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Show SEEK BETTER DISTRIBUTION OF MANPOWER IN STATE Labor Priorities Committee Appointed For State of Utah Appointment of a Utah Manpower Man-power Priorities Committee for the purpose of providing a more . effective distribution of available manpower among essential war employees and services was announced an-nounced by Joseph S. Mayer, U-tah U-tah War Manpower Commission Director, Milan T. Oldroyd, manager man-ager of WMC's U. S. Employment Service office at Richfield, said today. The Manpower Priorities Committee Com-mittee is composed of representatives representa-tives of the War and Navy Departments, De-partments, the War Production Board, Selective Service, and Civil Civ-il Service Commission, the Solid Fuel Administration, the Aircraft Air-craft Resources control Office and the War Manpower Commission. Discussing the committee's program, pro-gram, Mr. Oldroyd said the following fol-lowing three of several factors will be taken into consideration in determining which establishments establish-ments have first claim on the available suply of manpower; (1) The relative urgency of the end product being manufactured for the effective prosecution of the war. (2) The extent to which a lag in production is attributable to manpower shortage or other manpower factors. (3) The extent ex-tent to which employer's demands de-mands for additional manpower can be met by the better use of existing work forces. Determination of the urgency of the end product being manufactured manu-factured in Utah for the effective prosecution of the war would bej made by a modified Production Urgency Committee of which Mr. Ralph Bristol, War Production Member of the Manpower Priorities Priori-ties Committee, is chairman. Other principal members of the committee are the same as for the Manpower Priorities Committee Commit-tee except that Mr. Mayer will sit in as a member rather than as chairman of the Production Urgency Committee. In addition to determining and recommending employement ceilings ceil-ings and, where needed, manpower man-power priorities and allowances, ,the Manpower Priorities Committee Commit-tee has other responsibilities which include recommendations for contract reallocations where necessary, recommendation of priorities in the use of the War Manpower Commission training and utilization services and recommendations rec-ommendations for fixing the priority pri-ority of clearance orders from employers recruiting labor outside out-side the Utah area. Mr. Oldroyd explained that employment em-ployment ceilings will be established estab-lished for all employers, except agricultural employers, throughout through-out the state. Priority referral of male workers will operate in the following counties. Box Elder, Cache, Carbon, Davis, Duchesne, Emery, Iron, Juab, Morgan, Salt Lake, Sanpete, Sevier, Summitt, Tooele, Uintah, Utah, Masatch, Washington and Weber. Mr. Mayer has instructed all U. S. Employment Service offices serving counties where priority referral will be applicable, to request re-quest employers who are experiencing experi-encing manpower difficulties and who havo orders for workers on file, to file requests for priority priori-ty ratings. To begin with, all essential employers em-ployers and employers designated desig-nated as locally needed will be given, a "B" rating which will enable them to effect replacements. replace-ments. Those who wish to hire additional .men after July 1, must apply to the priority committee for manpower allowances to hire within established employment ceilings. If an employer desires to increase his force above the ceiling level, he must make application ap-plication to receive (1) permission permis-sion to raise his employment ceiling and (2) manpower allowances allow-ances permitting the hire of additional ad-ditional workers. The representatives of the Manpower Man-power Priorities Committee were selected by the agency which they represent and were officially official-ly appointed by Mr. John E. Gross, Acting Director of War Manpower Commission, Region No. XI. J J The committee is composed of the following principal members: mem-bers: Joseph S. Mayer, Utah Di-retor, Di-retor, War Manpower Commission; Commis-sion; Ralph E. Bristol, Director, War Production Board, Atlas Building; Smaller War Plants Corporation, Mr. E. R. Mussel-man, Mussel-man, District Manager; Army Service Forces, Major P. S. Irvine, O. D. Labor Branch, Ninth Service Serv-ice Command; War Food Administration, Admin-istration, Lyman Roberts, 529 Nevvhouse Building; Aircraft Resources Re-sources Control Office, Captain Robert O. Stafford, Hillfield, U-tah U-tah (OASC); Selective Service, Col. H. A. Rich J. A. G. D., Utah Oil Building; Civil Service Commission, Com-mission, Edwin E. Ellis, Branch Office Manager, Federal Building; Build-ing; Solid Fuel Administration, Mr. Joseph E. Barker; U. S. Navy, Lt. Comander H. P. Parmelee. |