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I THE CHARLOTTE LABOR JOURNAL AND DIXIE FARM NEWS _Published weekly at Charlotte, N. C. _ OLDEST LABOR PUBLICATION IN THE TWO CAROLINA8 B. A. Stalls, Editor and Publisher W. M. Witter, Associate Editoi Entered as second-class mail matter September 11, 1831, at the £oet Office at Charlotte, N. * C„ under the Act of Congress ol March 8, 1879. Endorsed J>y Charlotte Typographical Union. Number 338. An Af filiate of Charlotte Central Labor Union and the North Carolina Fed eration of Labor. LABOR DIGEST - Occupational shortages, especi ally in professional and skilled fields essential to advancement of the defense program/ are now more widespread and troublesome than at any time since Korea, the Bureau of Employment Security reported today. “-*• - t Hobert C. Goodwin, executive director of the Defense Manpower Administration, said that, as ®f • June 13, the local offices of the State employment services had ^reported 64,155 job openings Which cwld not he Ailed in the community where they originated. All these openings, Goodwin said, have been placed in clear ance and are being sought through out-of-area or interstate recruitment. Biggest unfilled demand for workers is for mechanical and electrical engineers and drafts men, machinists, tool and die makers, machine tool operators, skilled aircraft assembly workers and aircraft, auto, railroad and other types of mechanics and re pairmen. By occupational fields, job openings placed in clearance included 22,555 skilled, 13,797 semiskilled, 11,582 professional and management, 9,397 clerical and sales, 4,224 unskilled and 2, 420 service. (Labor Dept.) Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin announced today that he has added two more occupations to the Labor Department’s List of ^Critical Occupations. The occupations are those of power cable splicer and power lineman. He also announced tlgft the definitions of two other oc cupations have been expanded The addition of the two occu pations bring* the total of job titles now covered by the Revises List of Critical Occupations to 60. (Labor Dept.) The Department of Labor is establishing regional labor-man-; agement committees throughout the country as part of a broad program for obtaining the advice, co-operation and leadership of la bor and management* in the solu tion of manpower problems. The program calls for commit tees to be established in 13 re gions and in labor markekt areas which have, or anticipate serious manpower problems, Secretary Tobin said. The area committees Will ad vise the State employment se curity administrators on manpow er problems in their communities. In addition to assisting regional director? in developing and co ordinating manpower programs for the region in which they are located, each committee will take steps to identify unused plant capacity and pools of surplus la bor and call these to the atten tion of appropriate procurement agencies or prime contractors. (Dept, of Labor.) Layoffs in manufacturing rose in May for the second straight month, due largely to cutbacks in automobile production and re duced activity in other consumer goods manufacturing industries. The factory layoff rate per 1 , 000 employees rose to 13 in May from 10 in April and 8 in March. The May rate, however, was still about the same as In the earlier postwar years of high employ ment in 1947 and 1948. Despite the. rise in layoffs, fac tory workers continued to be hired in May at about the same rate as in the three preceding months, 45 per 1,000. The hiring rate has continued relatively high in a number of industries closely allied to defense activity, including ordnance, pri mary metals, machinery and in struments. (Dept, of Labor.) The civilian labor force rose by almost a million between May and June, somewhat less than the expected seasonal increase. Agricutiira! employment in creased by about 600,000 as farm work picked up, but still was a million below the level of a year ago. Non - agricultural employment showed no change. Unemploy ment, after reaching a postwar low in May, rose by almost 375, M)0 to 1,980,000, or 3.1 per cent it the civilian labor force. (Dept. >f Labor.) RULES -Al. L Carry or wear something white at ^j^jiight to help drivers see you."** , •**■»«. ■ 2. Cross only at crosswalks. Keep to the f*i^ right in the crosswalk. ^ 3. Before crossing—look both ways. Be sure the way is dear before you cross. 4. Cross only on proper signal. S* Watch for turning oars. 6. Never go into the roadway from be tween parked cars. 7. Where there is no sidewalk, and it is necessary to walk in roadway, walk on left side, facing traffic. EMPLOYMENT SECURITY NEWS (Continued From Page 1) tor, ia now located at 101-106 South Fifth Street, Richmond. Twelve additional professional and clerical employee* have taken up their duties in the new loca tion, some of them stiB living Jn and around Washington. Mr. Foy’* residence is at Chevy Chase, Md. The move is a part of the gen eral plan of decentralisation by moving from Washington many of the governmental units which now help congest the National Capital. ' Director Foy was named to jthis position in 1946, after serv ing for several months in his former post as regional chief of I placement, USES. He was in the f Navy in World Wars I and II, ing as commander in World War II. He had joined the National Reemployment Service early in 1984 and held various positions with tJSES.' r ~TT Mr. Foy, Commissioner Tobin reports, has been appointed chair man for Region IV of the Region al Labor-Management Committee, with headquarters in Richmond, of the 14 members, two are from North Carolina, John C. Whitaker, president of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co, Winston-Salem, and J. A. Scoggins, AFL, Charlotte. Mr. Scoggins is a member of the ’ESC Advisory Council. Keller N. C. Employment Officer Beach Keller, VER in the Ashe ville office, has been appointed by the Executive Board of Vet erans of Foreign Wars of the TJ. S. as state-wide employment of ficer for the organization's De partment of North Carolina. The VFW has inaugurated a program of full employment for all N. C. veterans and Mr. Keller will work | , closely with the ESC offices in ! the State in initiating the pro gram. Personnel Changes Joseph R. Thompson has re sign^ as VER in the Lenoir of fice; Jaqnes R. Tew has been ap pointed interviewer in the Bur lington office; Mrs. Ruth S. Evans, Mrs. Dorothy Cole, Mrs. Annie Bell Watkins and Henry Claire Green have been appointed junior general clerks in the Cen tral office. Paint Up—Clean Up Painting interiors of local of fices, along with new floors, new ceilings, partitions and other im provements are being carried on, have been completed, or are to be done in numbers of cases, giv ing cleaner and neater appear ■ ances. ES Commission To Meet Chairman Henry E. Kendall has called a meeting of the full Employment Security Commission to be held in his officte in the Caswell Building July 26, prob ably for one day only. Routine (Continued On Page 3) Union people owe a debt of co-operation and helpfulness to their brothers. If it were not for the other fellows in the Un ion, each man would stand alone. Then where woald he be? Election day this year in sev eral states and cities will be November 6. GREETINGS R. P. Steffey Co. YOUR G E DEALER 116 W. 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