THE U.S. is faced with a new kind of labor shortage that threatens to check its industrial growth. It is not a shortage of workers but of skills. In Washington the U.S. Labor Department disclosed that unfilled demands for skilled workers have jumped 17% over last year, against 9% for other workers. The Cleveland employment office reported it is getting 1,000 applications each month for skilled metal workers and is unable to fill them. Said F. E. James, Dallas director of the Texas Employment Commission: "Companies around here still scream at us for every available skilled man. But they...
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