why wo should nct de thate
QUESTION:
Havo any plans been mado?
THIESMEYER:
Not specifically,
If wo nocd mtcrials ina hurry, we will
ask for shipment by air freight just as any other organization nicht do,
QUISTION:
‘what arrongomonts will be made here fer forcign scientists to
cone ond study?
THIESMEYER:
That question involves the policy cf the Atonic Inoergy
Commission which will govorn cur operations,
‘ce will certainly welcome
oxchange of infcrmation and perscmncl, if this is pessiblos
“hat is the situation at the prescnt time cn employment?
QUESTION:
ire
you short cf personnel hero?
THICSMEYER:
Mr. Swart, Chief of our Personnel Division, is on my loft
and can tell you what the situation is in that regards
SWART:
we are not short cn them, but we are net long on them eithcr.e
Fundamentally our pcelicy is going to be to hire evorybody we can from the
local areas
“oe dontt want tc increase tho housing problome
to bring in everybody fron outside, we would.
so far as possible.
outsides.
If we were
~.c want to use local pecple
Our scicntific staff will undoubtedly cone fren
I have beon encouraged by the types cf people we have beon able
to got so fare
There are not millions of jobs available; but as we
grow we are going to need moro pecple and I think we will be able to
hire most of them locally, outside of the scicntific staff.
QUESTION:
SvuART:
In what capacity would most of them be hired locally?
Clerks, typists and stonographors, to a certain oxtente.
<c
are going to fill in the administrative staff, and we will need machinists,
technicians -= a gecd many of these poeple with scme basic training can
be trained further and we intend tc have a training program to train thome
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