COL. ARTHUR FLETCHER TO RETURN
TO.POSITION AS CHAIRMAN OF
UNEMPLOYMT COMPENSATION COM.
Lt.-Col. Arulhur L. Fletcher, on military leave with the Se
lective Service in Washington since May, 1942, will retire from
Army service June 30 and will return to Raleigh to resume his
position July 1 as Chairman of the Unemployment Compensation
Commission, a position he has held since July 1, 1941, by appoint
ment of Governor Broughton.
Colonel Fletcher, “Major” when he
left, has had two sieges fo Washing
ton, a previous one as Assistant Ad
ministrator of the Wave and Hour
Division, U. S. Dept, or Labor, from
September 1, 1938, until June 30,
1940, and was Director of Region VI
of that division until June 30, 1941,
when he became UCC Chairman.
Colonel Fletcher was N. C. Com
missioner of Labor when he resigned
to go to Washington with the Wage
and Hour Division and had held sev
eral important positions in the State
prior to his election to that office,
including Deputy Insurance Commis
sioner, Chief of the Federal Income
Tax Division, and newspaper man.
His military career includes service
on the Mexican Border, overseas serv
ice in World War I and in Washing
ton in World War II
SAYS UNION
LABOR FORMS
THE SEABEES
WASHINGTON. — “The Navy’s!
Seabees owe a great debt to union
labor for having provided the Con
struction Battalions with a majority
of their skilled men,” Captain E.
Jack Spaulding, USNR, Civil Engi
neer Corps, has been telling union
meetings from coast to coast during
the past few weeks. Spaulding has
been expressing the Navy’s appreci
ation for Labor’s cooperation in the
Sea bee procurement program.
Capt. Spaulding, who directed the
procurement of fighting construction
workers for the Seabees congratu
lated union laboring men for “the
magnificent contribution they have
made to the strength of our skilled
construction forces.
“Without their skill and experi
ence, the advanced bases so necessary
to the operation of the fleet would not
have been built,” he said.
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WASHINGTON. — Ex-servicemen*
many with war injuries, are doing
good jobs in many war plants, ac
cording to an OWI report on dis
charged veterans of the present war.
The report explains what is being
done to place veterans in civilian jobs,
and points out that discharged vet
erans of the present war are entering
industry at the rate of approximately
70,000 per month. The majority are
going into war jobs.
More than 74,000 veterans of the
present war were placed in civilian
jobs in February and March 19944
by USES.
Statistics show that veterans are
seeking jobs different from those
they held before entering the service.
Only 25 percent of those discharged
through hospitals from May 1, 1940,
to the present have been returned to
jobs they held before entering the
service.
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E. E. Conroy, head of the New York
F. B. I., said he “expects a great
crime wave will come as a result of
juvenile delinquency, the drafting of
young policemen and the return of
ten million veterans, trained to kill”.
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McNUTTSAYS
NEW 4-F PLAN
IS VOLUNTARY
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WASHINGTON.—The new nation
wide system of priority referral of
male workers to important war jobs
"continues in effect the principle of
voluntary recruitment of civilian
manpower," according to WMC Chair
man Paul V. McNutt. Althoughcri^
ical manpower problems exist which
must be solved, the new plan is in
no sense “any indication that labor
has fallen down on the job,” he said.
“Labor,” McNutt said, has “done a
good job under the voluntary plan
which is now being extended by the
use throughout the nation of locally
tested and developed referral meth
ods.”
He emphasized that the priority
plan was adopted only after thorough
consideration and discussion with
management labor committees follow
ing a request by WMC’s management
labor policy committee. On May 2.
the committee, affirming that “the
nation’s manpower needs can best be
met under manpower programs vol
untarily adopted,” recommended
guided placement of all male work
ers needed in any areas at the option
of regional manpower directors af
ter consultation with management
labor committees.
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35 AREAS ARE
DROPPED FROM
THE WMC LIST
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WASHINGTON. — Savarfhah, Ga.,
and New Bern, N. C., were placed
in Group I (areas of acute labor
shortage) in WMC’s revised labor
market classification which became
effective June 1. Newton, Iowa, was
taken from Group I and placed in
Group II (areas in which a labor
shortage is expected to develop >t an
early date).
Thirty-five areas in Group III and
IV in which there have been for many
months a surplus of labor and very
little war production activity have
been dropped from the list, which now
totals 319 instead of 354.
Group I areas now number 69 as
compared to 68 In May. Areas in
Group II increased from 112 to 118
from May to June. Group III areas
declined from 131 to 104 and Group
IV from 43 to 31.
Duluth, Minn. - Superior, Wis., was
moved from Group II to Group III.
Moved from Group III to Group II
were Asheville, N. C.; Claremont,
Ohio; Lansing, Mich.; and Winston
Salem - Greensboro, N. C.
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