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Show I Shortage of Workers Reported Sources of qualified and trained train-ed workers are practically exhausted ex-hausted in the Salt Lakee area, according to Paul R. Davis, manager of Salt Lake office, U. S. employment service. It had been anticipated that returning servicemen would provide a huge labor pool from which shortages developing during dur-ing the war could be met, Mr. Davis said. But in the year following V-J Day the comparatively few skill-I skill-I ed tradesmen among the veterans veter-ans has been absorbed and labor la-bor bottlenecks are appearing in all types of industry. Industrialists and business men planning future expansion now are faced with training their own workers. Mr. Davis said. It is to their advantage to set up on-the-job and apprenticeship apprentice-ship training programs if they expect to meet future requirements, require-ments, he declared. As a result of the -critical shortage of tailors in the area an effort will be made to remedy those conditions. A meeting of tailors, business men and vocational voca-tional training officials was held in the USES office, Sept. 3 to work out a plan whereby a training train-ing program can be established for this trade. Similarly, other training programs pro-grams can be worked out to supply sup-ply our sparse labor market with badly needed skilled tradesmen, Mr. Davis declared. |