The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-11-24
ABOUT APPRENTICES.
And Also a Few Words in Refer
enee to Employers.
SALT LAKE Cry, Nov. %. 1880.

SALT LAKE CRY, Nov. %. 1880.
Editors Herald:
10 your issue OF Saturday last l
noticed an editorial article upon the
subject of apprentices. While I am
in hearty accord with some of the
ideas therein expressed, l must say
that you do the majority OF boys at
present learning Trades, that l am
acquainted with, gross injustice.
You Geek to throw all the blame upon
The boys, and this Is not just. By any
means. Granting that some boys do
cave or have left, their employers
'efore they bad gained q thorough ,
knowledge of the art or trade which
hey desired to learn, an investigation
1to the causes attached thereto, will, .
am sure, reveal the fact that the 1
lame is, at least. equally divided {
nong the employer and employed. q
have in WEN nov company thai, n
18th one or two exceptions, has D
Gated its apprentices-weil, not as q
icy should have been treated, by b
~ means. They took these boys, to
I'd under q written agreement 70
omised to learn them, the cart, re
ade or mystery" of the profession To
which they belonged. There are az
Teral branches to their trade, and IN
orough knowledge of all of them we
IS what the indentures called for. lal
It did the boys get this knoEledge7 ou
}, they did not, and, as a natural on
ult, were turned out at the end of OF
II years with no knowledge of the Chi
de they had eDdeaVored to learn, IN
Q of the least important part. To- VII
7, these youths are unable to per- wa
N the work they should be able to ia
ause o. the shortcomings OF their anc
ployers. Other boys, working ct IL Q
same place, and who have been last
re two or three years, foreseeing AND
!, if they remained there till they pay
g gray-headed, they would know last
very little more than they do pax
!, have also abandoned their stu new
rs in preference to being turned IL
as "botches," and are now look rem
out for other employment. 1t was
not prospect of "higher wages" slttl
induced these boys TO leave, be. II as
10 they are willing to work for III
J less than they were getting, any
idjng thev had some ass1rances can
showing something abont Their Moo
ession at the expiration of their
entioeship. | am satisfied that
cases mentioned are but
few in comparison with
= others and the cause From
most of them, il not SAM
4, can be traced to pecuniary Oppc
and selfshness on the part OF
oyers The main object with w
? employers is 70 get all they can CHE
}! apprentices; whether the boys Ulste
learn the trade or not is a sec and
~ cUnolueTatlon' Ibis ls Dad the st
of affairs, but it is true. | adj WI
that there are plenty of boys TION
will never be skilled Workmen, Ladie
y have every show to become 60. mined
! again, there are many who the 6
g, If they have a chance to per- fee.
themselves in the trades which
desire to learn. I, too, wish M
was q good apprentice law in Dlu
snd thAt the youth here could
irted or coerced into acquiring r,.,.
edge of trades, and becoming N1''''
ependent ss they might be by vii
terms of apprenticeship" and of civ
ID also like to see a law that
compel employers to carry out 'O0o''I
agreements and do the lost SUPER
by their apprentices, instead OF come
ing tbs course that tee many Societ
10 do now; that is, getting all Yes
5ney possible to be made out OF per a
VS. anxious and willing to learn fully r
and giving the youths very FRS
IL any, knowledge IN return OF the
DR.. Slch q law will be hailed ing ho
eight by all Well-mesning en- congrt
5. and all boys desiring to OBJ m;
! thorough knowledge OF any day sc
trade or mystery" But the Presby
al employers will not take such N.
rful look at 1t. Let such a law At
ce enacted, and the trouble brancl
boys leaving their employers Count
the expiration OF their sppren- with
p will. in a great measure, be follow
d. VIDI. dent,