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12/27/44
"Although the industry has expanded its war dollar volume about 1300^ since 1940, its employment total is expected to decrease only 39 #0^0 after return to peacetime production. This is due to the huge pent-up demand for radios to replace worn-out sets, as well as the anticipated, postwar popularity of FM receivers and, a little later, of television. The RMA survey, made by the Association’s Employment & Personnel Committee, showed that 202 of the major radio companies expect to employ 145,266 persons during the first year of postwar production, as compared with 86,173 in the prewar year of 1940« The 1944 war production employment, in the July-September period covered by the survey, averaged 241,286*
"The survey was one of the first postwar employment studies made by a large industry and for the first time developed figures on the industry’s employees who have gone into the armed services, numbering 36,374, or more than one-third of the industry’s prewar total* The survey Included figures from 202 companies, representing 64,9% of the industry, including the largest and virtually all sub¬ stantial manufacturers and representing about 80^ of industry employees* On an 80^ basis, about 181,500 persons would be the estimated industry postwar employment* That the survey substantially covered the industry is demonstrated by the total employment record of 241,286 in the July-September 1944 period, compared with an official WPB estimate of 300,000 employees for all electronic manu¬ facturers in war production (many of them not normally industry factors) *
"That 28,5% of the present industry employees will be forc¬ ed to seek work in another field, due to war contract cutbacks and the return of former employees now in the armed services, was in¬ dicated by the survey* There was an Increase of 180^ shown in 1944 employment over the average number employed prewar, in 1940* Estimat¬ ed employment by the end of the first twelve months’ postwar product¬ ion showed a decrease from the present level of 59,8%, but an increase of 68*6^ over 1940* Employment of men has Increased 106.2^ over 1940 and is expected to decrease 30*4^ fran current employment. The number of women employees, however, has increased 248.4^ over 1940 and is expected to decrease only 44,9%o postwar. The survey estimated that 23*6% of the men and 27,9% of the women how employed will not seek work in the industry, for various reasons, after the war. This group includes housewives, school children, and women war workers*
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