Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. Under that is May 3 and the letter "M" which indicates
a call in by mail. We use a form.
Mr. JENNER. Does that mean the applicant called in?
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. No, sir.
Mr. JENNER. That means the agency called him in by mail?
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. Yes, just as the 10-26-62 "TM" meant telephone message.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. There is no entry under "referred". Under
"Employer--Agency" is Texas Power & Light Co. The job title or
purpose is "Meter reader." The duration is permanent, the pay is
$250. A runover item in the "Results" column is an E-19. That is one
of our form numbers which the employment service uses to inform the
unemployment compensation office that an applicant who is a claimant
was called but did not report or did not accept--or at any rate appears
not to be available for referral to jobs.
Mr. JENNER. Could it be that there was no response to the mail notice?
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. Yes, sir; it does mean that because there is no entry
in the referred column, you see.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. Under the remarks are the letters "NR" which means
"nonreport"--just what you were asking, and there is a repetition, if I
am reading it correctly, of E-19, which is the same entry we just spoke
of and the date----
Mr. JENNER. One, which is a similar entry meaning the same thing as the
previous one?
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. Which is a duplicate entry--E-19?
Mr. JENNER. I wanted to make clear that you weren't merely reading the
same entry you read before.
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. No, sir; on the same line is written the date 5-8-63,
which is 5 days subsequent to when the card was mailed, wasn't it?
Mr. JENNER. What was the date--May 8, 1963?
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. And then in parentheses are written the words
"Moved--left no address" and there are two initials there that I cannot
decipher.
Mr. JENNER. I don't think I need to ask you to interpret that.
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. All right.
Mr. JENNER. Is there another line?
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. Under the word "Called" is 10-7-63--TM, indicating a
telephone message under the column headed "Referred" is 10-8-63.
Employer-agency--I read--"Solid State Electric; job title or
purpose--sales clerk; duration--permanent; pay--$350 a month; under
"Results"--"NH"--meaning, "Not hired."
Under "Remarks" is printed the word "direct," which I interpret to mean
that our staff member did not make an appointment for the applicant but
asked him to go directly to see the employer.
Mr. JENNER. The "not hired" entry indicates what to you as to whether
the employer rejected the applicant or whether the applicant declined
their employment or any other reason. What did that indicate to you in
this area?
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. Ordinarily it means that the employer rejected the
applicant and I am seeing that there was an erasure in this "NH" which
looks as if it could have been "ARJ".
Mr. JENNER. What does that mean?
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. That means "Applicant rejected job," and frequently
these kind of changes are usual happenings with us because we can
always call an employer and check too quickly and he will say one
thing, or if you talk to another person in staff they will say, "No;
we didn't hire him." Can you see how that would happen, sir?
Mr. JENNER. Yes; that combination with the erasure leads you to
interpret that, that while there was initially a report that the
applicant refused the job, on a further check it was ascertained that
he was not hired, meaning that the prospective employer did not hire
the applicant, rather than that the applicant rejected the position?
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. Yes, sir.
Mr. JENNER. Is there another entry?
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. I think I got into the column under "Remarks" and had
explained the word "Direct" before.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. I'm sorry--I cannot read the entry under the word
"Direct." I can read the initials "RLA", who is our Mr. Robert Adams.
Mr. JENNER. That is the man I examined this morning?
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. Yes.
Mr. JENNER. That means that Robert Adams handled that particular item?
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. Yes, sir; and that he saw the applicant on that day
and gave the referral.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. In the next line under the word "Called" is a
dash, which indicates that the applicant was not called in, but
probably appeared at the office and was routed back to the placement
interviewer, and the date is the next day--10-9-63; "Employer agency is
Burton-Dixie"; job title or purpose is "Clerk Trainee"; the duration
is permanent; the pay is $1.25, the results are "NH", which means "not
hired."
Under "Remarks" is "direct" and the initials RLA which is our Mr. Bob
Adams.
Mr. JENNER. All right.
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. Under "Called"--10-15, with a "T," which means
that he was called by telephone, under "Referred" is 10-15,
which would indicate that he reported the same day, and under
"Employer-agency--Trans-Texas"; under "Job Title or Purpose--cargo
handler"; under "Duration" is "P"--under "Pay" is $310.
Mr. JENNER. That's a month?
Mrs. CUNNINGHAM. Yes, sir; "result" is "NR".
Mr. JENNER. What do you mean by that?