The Detroit times., 1912-10-17
APPRENTICES TO
Be PAID WHILE
AT CASS SCHOOL
VIII Receive Technical Educa-
tion One Afternoon a
Week for Two Years
EMPLOYERS ASSN
rs BACKING SCHEME
Urges bIembers-tu Taixe Advan-
tage OF Scheme to Produce
Good Mechanics

The Employers association OF De
troit has sent out to its members
copies. of the. continuation school
agreement adopted In conjunction
With the Board. OF Education Tor tne
technical education OF apprentices IL
the Caes Technical High school.
The association recommends that
as many OF its members as possible
urge their apprentices 10 take al
vantage OF the means or technical edu-
crion thus offered, and the interest
Rmpng manufacturers Is such that the
afternoon classes will prohapiy DC
crowded.
1.-The agreement provides that the
student spend one afternoon from J
To. $50 a week at the school, for 100
weeks. During that time he Will be
naid just as II he were at work IN
! the company's plant.
This step is the consummation oil
! seyen-years' campaign or ,rtrs Em~
fpfoSers' association Tor Uetter- tech
meal eduoatfon OF apprentices The
frzt activity-was the formation of the
iDetroit-TrHxe schoof-oyT Associat,-
e6. Hmpleyers,~ >eerPovatsoIl- -whica-
buughe Hand at Cass- and -Ragley-ayes--
for 5ust4sneh- q building AS the -CaAS
rschaieAl- school, .Thep -tha. Y NJ. C.
A. baCamei interested In the moysmeEt
and xnnted to- take II over. but its
nlans were interfered with by the
hard times Of I9e7-1sOs. Then Presl-
dent Trix, OF the Employers associa'
ton, appointed committed on APP
pfsnticsS. consisting OF II. W. Hoyt'
or the -Urear Ezkes Engtneering
works; Juseph- Boyer, OF the Bus--
rUughs Adding Machine company. and
D. M. Ireland, -of~Ireland q Matthew'S.
aud IL is due -te-the efforts. OF. this
cemmittee that the members of the
association have, been convinced OF
thh necessity -nf better TECHNICAL edu'
cation for their men and of tech.
meal school with the best machinery
and instructors as the place for 1t to
De obtained
"a year ago, J. III. Renshaw director
OF the Cincinnati continuation schools,
spoke in Detroit before the employers
and the Board of Education, and
showed how Cincinnati had met the
problem by opening a course In tn
school Of engineering Of the Uni
veysity OF Cincinnati to young men
workers. who felt the need of tech
ninal education, and his talk did a
great deal TO convince employers
that such a school was necessity In
Detroit.
Meanwhile the movement had
spfead beyond the Employers associa-
tIDh. They. M. CA. had taken IL
%. to some extent: and now Detroit
university Is putting in operation
what may be called the reverse OF
tie plan--tbatis,-i ~ it Is giving its stuA-
dAnts an opportunity for technical
education, although they do not ex-.
pect to adopt a technical occupation.
By. Fir. Dooley's efforts, number OF
students have been accepted at sew
eral Detroit plants as workmen. ana
though the heads know that at the
end OF their course at the university
tfrey will be lost TO the plant, yet
they pay them for the work they do
and give them An opportunity for ac-
quiring technical knowledge,
-The aim OF the Employers associa-
tion has been to-create n -cnnsiderah !
body of young men with sufficient
technical education 10 make them
valuable to employers, and thus TO
do away with the practice that plants
have been forced INTO adopting, o,
competing with one another for the
services or -tne comparatively few
who have acUrYfresi- -slIcff A sxupwledge 1