Labor Shortages in the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain States: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-eighth Congress, First Session, on S. Res. 88 and S. Res. 113; Resolutions Providing for Investigation of Labor Shortages in the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain States. September 9 and 10, 1943. Subcommittee Recommendations ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943 - 132 páginas |
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Página 44 - ... deferred classification, the number of fathers who appeal as distinguished from the number who do not appeal, the number who obtain postponement of induction, and so forth. There may be any combination of these factors so that even though the date we were to commence taking fathers were definitely set, the individual father could not know definitely just when he would be inducted, if at all. Therefore, it seems to me that too much emphasis has been placed upon that question and too little attention...
Página 107 - Information will conduct informational campaigns to impress on the west coast communities the seriousness of the manpower situation, tlie threat to war production and the war effort, and the need for individual cooperation and community support in the program. B. The Committee for Congested Production Areas in the Executive Office of the President will coordinate the activities of the...
Página 14 - AREAS Senator Young brought out one point I would like to develop a little bit and that is the shift and decline in production of malting barley in former malting barley producing areas such as Wisconsin, for example. This is a large industry and as an industry we are seriously concerned about the future supply of malting barley; so we made a study of the overall research situation as far as...
Página 104 - War Production Board (Chairman), War Manpower Commission, War Department, Navy Department, Maritime Commission. War Food Administration, Aircraft Resources Control Office, Office of Defense Transportation (when transportation problems are involved), such other agencies as the Committee may from time to time invite to assist it.
Página 15 - It means that many of those workers who come out with their families are forced to live on a substandard scale actually. Their housing is not adequate, they are unable to secure proper recreational facilities, there is no entertainment in some of those areas for them of any kind at night, there are no movies, no other facilities for relaxation. As a result, after a month or 2 months many of those workers decide, while wage rates might not be as attractive back where they came from, at least they...
Página 70 - We certainly are not making work in quite a number of the areas attractive for the in-migraiits who have been attracted to the jobs but do not want to stay on them for any length of time under the existing poor housing conditions, we believe, particularly in connection with some of the aircraft plants. I think these groups, probably jointly, have got to attack the problem of holding the people that we now have in these manufacturing...
Página 8 - ... REYNOLDS. Thank you very much. Mr. RONEY. Along the same line of questions that the Senator raised, the housing situation and the general community facilities situation of course play perhaps an equal part. Housing is almost nonexistent in most of the major areas of the west coast at the present time. Despite the fact that programs of housing developed for the west coast have been the largest of any equivalent area in the country, that is true. Senator REYNOLDS. Does the War Manpower organization...
Página 56 - ... salaries, even though they would not be qualified for such jobs were any large number of such positions readily available; that while women have been more than sufficient and more than willing to take positions as chauffeurs, there are not enough chauffeur positions to go around. 5. Since facilities for taking care of the children while their mothers are at work are somewhat limited in this area, most housewives are unwilling to take a job, but must spend their time taking care of their children.
Página 104 - A. The War Production Board is made responsible for directing and coordinating those phases- of the west coast manpower program concerned with the adjustment of production programs to meet the available labor supply, as reported and developed by the War Manpower Commission.
Página 21 - Many women are young women who decide, perhaps not by their own decision, to have babies, and when the babies come along they stop work. Many of the women are married women who may move around the State or the country with their husbands. Many of the workers are living in such deplorable conditions that they do not have the proper school facilities, they do not have the proper shopping facilities or recreational facilities, and they just move around attempting to better their conditions. You multiply...