Cutback In 17 North
Carolina Firms
RALEIGH, Aug. 22. — Cut
backs and layoffs in 17 North
^arolina firms in 10 North Car
olina centers, devoted primarily
to war production, will reduce the
numbers of workers from about
26,550 to about 14,200, involving
loyoffs or approximately 12,350
workers, L'r. J. S. Dorton, State
director of the War Manpowei
Commission, has figured.
These workers have been lam
off, or will be within the next few
days, Dr. Dorton reports, adding
that a few hundred other workers
in other plants may be added to
the number.
In many of these plants little
or no layoff is expected, since
some have already converted -to
civilian production and others are
expected to complete the reconver
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All Manpower
Controls Removed
Raleigh, Ag. 22.—All manpow
er controls in North Carolina were
automatically removed at the
. moment last week when President
Truman announced the end of the
war with Japan, Dr. J. S. Lorton,
State director of the_War Man
power Commission, said in a
statement issued at that time. He
discussed the State's future in this
statement:
“Lifting all manpower con
trols means that all ceiling ano
employment stabilization regula
tions, including the 48-hour work
week, are removed and all em
ployers may hire as many work
ers as they want and can get.
Workers are permitted to accept
any job they may choose and t?
change jobs as they wish.
“While controlled referrals 01
males no longer exists, we ofi**
full and complete service of oui
trained and specialized personnel
throughout the State to both env
players and workers alike and
pledge our continued efforts and
cooperation toward a sound pro
gram of reconversion and full em
ployment for all North Carolin
ians.
“With the relaxation of con
trols and the tremendous work
load that this involves, more time
will be made available for our
personnel of more than 500 in 92
U. S. Employment Service Offi
ces in developing job opportuni
ties and in placing returning vet
erans and returnig war worker*
on peace-time jobs.
“North Carolina, with the WMO
-USES daily list of job openings
known as NC-10, which is current
in each office in the State, is i*
a strategic position to find an?
publicize job opportunities thru
all local offices in the State.
“Our offices are also equipped
to flash to each local office the
qualifications and experience oi
those who for any reason are not
able to find suitable employment1
in their loeal office areas. This
system offers any person in the
State seeking employment an op
portunity to have his or her qual
ifications listed and available to
every employer in the State who
may be in need of the services
of just such a man or woman.
“We can contemplate the post
war future of North Carolina with
satisfaction. It is undoubtedly
true that we will have some un
employment, due to change-ovei
from war to peace-time produc
tion. But, it is our considered
opinion that North Carolina has
less to fear in that respect than
any State in the Union. The rea
son is obvious. Our war-time in
dustries are our principal peace
time industries, such as textiles
logging and lumbering, and the
like, whose peace-time products
were merely changed to war and
war-supporting products.
Needs for both textiles and
sion process in short periods.
Also, Dr. Dorton states, all ol
workers could be readily absorbed
in North Carolina industry ii
they had the proper skills a> f
were at the right places. As it is.
only a few of the laid off work
ers are expected to be out of
jobs for long. North Carolina
plants could readily absorb imme
diately two to three times the num
bers now being laid off, Dr. Dor
i ton said.
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lumber will continue to increase.'
rather than decrease. These two
industries alone could absorb be-}
twteti 30,000 and 35,000 workers (
without difficulty. Hundreds of
our other industries can readily
absorb another 35,000 workers.
•‘Those purely war-time indus
tries, such as shipbuilding, shell
loading, and other munitions man
ufactures, if closed entirely, would
release approximately 14,000
workers, all of whom could be
readily absorbed into peace-time
industries. In addition, scores ot
new industries are ready and
waiting for the go signal to begin
I operations in the State. The de
I mauds for these new industries
'and expansion programs of hun
I dreds of our escaolisned indus
tries will require thousands of ad
ditional workers.
“Moreover, North Carolina's
present employment, with all ol
the extra women and over-age
and under-age workers, not nor
mally employed, is still 100,000
below the normal peace-time em
plojidient in this State.
“These figures do not include
agricultures! workers, who consn
i tute about one-half of the State s
employed workers. , \
I *'Tln> backlog ot need for more
. workers should prevent any ser
I ious unemployment ot a perma
i nent nature in North Carohu v for
a long time.
•Jt now becomes the duty anoi
responsibility of both ma inga
ment and labor, working haimcn
i> usly and cooperatively, to see
| that such unity of purpose exists
as to assure confidence on the
| part of both that new jobs ana
I better jobs are provided, not only
, for our returning veterans, but
| for all who would have a part in
building a greater State and Na»
tion. This will assure that the
winning of the peace is as worthy
a cause as has been the winning
of the war.
“To this cause and purpose tJit I
ett'ort* of our entire personnel
and our Management-Labor Com
mittee are dedicated."
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f REV. ROBERT H HARPER t
Jacob Adjust* Personal Rela
tionships.
Lesosn for August 26: Genesis
35:1-11, 17-20.
Memorf Verse: Romans 14:19.
In the period following the
time of the narrative of the last
lesson, Jacob had spent 20 years
in the service of Laban, his la
(her-in-law. At length, because of
friction between himself and La
ban, Jacob departed for Canaan
with all his household and Ins
flocks. Having appeased the wrath
of the pursuing Laban, who turn
ed back, Jacob was disturbed to
hear that Esau was coming to
meet him, v.ith 400 men
He had reason to fear the
i brother whom he had wronged.
I Hut there was nothing left out to
! stand ana meet the issue Having
arranged his camp as wisely as
he could, he went forth to meet
Esau. L'oubtless he was utterly
surprised and overjoyed when
Esau ran to meet him, embraced
him, kissed him, and wept.
Esau here appears in a noble
light—also afterward when he|
insisted on not receiving the grift
which Jacob had made to him.
But Jacob insisted and the gift
was finally accepted. The broth
ers separated the following day—
Esau returning to Mt. Heir and
and Jacob moving on slowly to
ward Shechem.
His personal relationships ad-!
justed, Jacob desired a perma
i nent home. He bought the parcel,
of ground outside the city where
his tent was pitched, and then up
on his own soil built an altar un
to God. But better than any per
manence he might have secured
in his own home was Jacob’s per
manence of desire to do God’s
will. Since his wondrous wrestling
at Peniel, Jacob was a changed
man—redeemed of God and for
given by his brother, he found
permanence of spirit.
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