EM EM : monthly magazine - 01.09.1941, Síða 5

EM EM : monthly magazine - 01.09.1941, Síða 5
Ein Em 5 ...---■ ■ .......- ... ■ <g) " t ' Stewart Says— Getting Unemployed On Uncle Sam’s List To Be Advantageous ----------------------------4 By CHARLES P. STEWART i Central Press Columnist . UNCLE SAM’S Office of Pro- duction Management recently launched its campaign to get all available defense workers listed with the United States Employ- ment Service more with a view to maximum plant activity t h a n for the actual c r af tsmen’s benefit. At any rate, it was output that Production Chief William S. Knudsen un- q u e s t ionably had in mind. Maybe Co-Chief Sidney Hillman, Wm. S. Knudsen who particular. ly represents la- bor in the OPM set-up, was think- íng considerably of the registra- tion system’s obvious advantages from the standpoint of the work- ingman also. It promises to be an excellent thing for ’em in the long run, anyhow. v The scheme’s to get all unem- ployed workers on the list; like- wise to get onto it all workers em- ployed in non-defensive índustries who have, incidentally, the neces- sary skills, of variou3 sorts, to make ’em useful, by changing jobs, in defensive ones. Of course, each registrant’s place of residence, as well as his name, will be recorded. Thus, if a defense manufacturer at Podunk, for instance, needs men and ap- plies to the U. S. Employment Service for ’em, the service will as- sign them to him from his own im- mediate neighborhood. He won’t have to scout about the couhtry for ’em and theý won’t have to travel perhaps long distances to report tó him for duty. , V This will count materially. It’s worse than a bother for a newly- hired employe to have to trans- port himself and his family from one place to another and re-settle in a strange neighborhood. It’s a near - impossibility frequently, at nresent. Where to Live Right where he’s been living for quite awhile, a workingman usual- ly has a home—rented, quite like- ly, but b.e’s in it and can stay there. But he may not be able to find one at some defense center that he’s just trying to move into; such centers are frightfully o.ver- crowded under existing circum- stancesi I know personally of a working- man in Washington, where he had a job and a passably comfortable domicile. Washington’s crowded to the point o£ suffocation, too, but this chap was already installed and in no danger of being evicted to make room for some later arrival. We!l, he heard that he could make more money at Norfolk, Va. Defense work there is fairly per- ishing for fresh hands, the bird re- ferred to wa3 technically equipped for certain required tasks; so 'ne visited Norfolk to apply for a billet. •-> He found that, with overtime, he could earn $14 daily, which was highly satisfactory. Then he be- gan to- look for bed and board. Soon he discovered that the best he could do was at the rate of $17 weekly. That doesn’t seem to be excessive -on a $14 daily wage basis. However, while the board was O. K., the bed was in one room with seven others—and he has a wife and three children. He couldn’t find accommodations for that outfit in Norfolk under about twice $14 daily. Naturally he re- turned to his job in Wasfiington. To be sure, the government’s building houses a3 fast as it can, for war workers, but it hasn’t got ’em yet. That’s why OPM is so anxious to avoid enforced migra- tions of defense-making availables. There’s ng room for ’em where they’re needed. Eligibles don’t register directly with the U. S. Employment Serv- ice. They register ■'with the state employment exchanges, but the latter are affiliated with thé U. S. service and tum their lists in to it. OPM’s clamor for registrations, then, at today’s juncture, is to fa- cilitate defensive production, and the howl for workers ís due to gain volume as the program progresses. As yet the famine for craftsmen is only local, as at places like Nor- folk, butit’s u safe bet that it’ll become national and a deal more acute not more than comparatively a few weeks hence. Piize Novelíst Hefe^ Enrique Gil, Ecuadorian author of “Nuestro Pan” (Our Daily Bread), prize-winning novel in a contest conducted by New York publishers, arrives in New York. He is one of four winners in the contest for Latin-American authors.___ Backs Ship Seizures 4) 4 Commander F. F. Reynolds, repre- senting the chief of naval opera- tions, is shown before the House merchant marine committee hear- ing on two bills to accelerate the acquisition of foreign ships in American ports. He declared the ships would be used to replace ton- nage taken over by the Army and i Navyfor transport and supply.

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