The sun., 1919-07-20
WILL TEACH TRADES
TO EX-SERVICE MEN
Many Big Manufacturers Will.
ing to Pay Them While
Learning.

Col. Arthur Woods. assistant TO the
Secretary Of War In the task Of securing
employment for discharged soldiers and
sailors. made public yesterday a list Of
large manufacturing concerns through
cut the country that are willing to take
hitherto unskilied workmen and train
them In special trades. paying them
good wages while instructing them in
ckilled employments.
The demand for skilled labor Is SO
great that many concerns are willing to
give vocational training in order even
case a better Job will be waiting for
every man in the plant where he re-
ceives his apprentices training.
I'VE have found" said Col Woods
yesterday. that skilled men are COM
paratively easy to place, but that the
difhcult problem Is to get satisfactory
positions for unskilled men This large
class OF ex-service men. because of their
army experience and training, are much
more ambitious than they were before
they entered the war, but they lack the
skill to hold jobs as expert workers. A
large number Of Americas leading in
dustrial plants have already established
Industrial training classes and vesti-
bule' schools by means OF which 1t will
be possible for unskilled applicants TO
become skilled workers while receiving
wages sufficient to support them.
Tho list includes:
The General Electric COMPANY, main
onice Schenectady the Underwood Type
writer Company. Hartford: the Barber
colmsn Company. Rockford. N the NJ
B. r. Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio;
the Davis Bournonvilis Company, Jersey
City City, N J.; the Miller Lock COMPANY;
COMPANY. Cincinnati; the Burroughs Add.
Ing Machine Company, Detroit; the REQ
nTsSI car SEmpsny Lansing Mich the
Greenville. 9. C.; the ,Tlnken- Detroit Axle
psny. moulders, Milwaukee; the Lunkon-
heimer Company, Cincinnati; the Tlnken
RsiG Bearing s,oG G0mPaIE Cantor; Ohio;
cheering Company, Dayton, Ohio; Spencer
Lens Company. Buffalo; Buffalo Weaving
som.rs Wald choaso III. p MSn
Engineering Laboratories Company, Day
ton, Ohio: J; T. Cousins Company, shoe
Employment Industry OF, the 7. NJ. g. A.
woCd working. East Third street. New
I@nston Monctyps Machine Company
| Tool Company, Cincinnati; Vanguard
| Player Action School. 500 West Fifty-hrst
| street, New York city: Boston Typothetae
Board of Trade. l7s Federal street, room
Se4,. Boston; whitcOms- BlaisdelI Machine
Tool Company. Worcester, Mass; PasSaiC
Metal Ware Company. Passaic, N. j..
| American Optical Company, Southbridge
| Mass; Steul Thurman Company. wood
| carvers and cabinetmakers. Buffalo: Sears
Roebuck Co.. Chicago; Royal Typewriter
| Company, Inc. New Park avenue. Hart
| ford; the Cleveland Metal Products Com
pany, Cleveland.
The Merchant Shipbuilding Corpora
ton, Hartman. Pa. has called for 100
ambitious young ex-setvice men to re-
ceive training. and will pay from IS &c
IS cents an hour while the training is
being given
Former Office workers Just released
from the army are rapidly turning to
ONE form of skilled manual labor, Major
Warren Bigelow. head of the Reemploy.
ment Committee for Soldiers, Sailors and
Marines. said yesterday.
"Jobless clerical workers are learning
as a result of interviews that by start
ing as apprentices In one or more OF
skilled occupations It will be a short
time only before they will be carrying
more than they could get in an office
after years of hard work. At this rate
| II will be only a few months before
thousands OF former office men will be
learning trades The result will be q
shortage of ONCE help
| The bureau has found Jobs for s,3o4
men since April "a.