The Washington times., 1921-06-28
VOCATIONAL
CHIEFS ARE
ATTACKED
BY. YANkS
Ex-Lobbyists Run Board at Fat
Pay, Charge Of Disabled
Soldiers Convention.

Members of union that voted
at its national convention in favor
of recognition of the Bolshevik form
Of government are virtually in con-
troll of the section of the Federal
Board for Vocational Education
which has to do with the placing of
disabled soldiers and sailors in
training to rchabilitate them for a
career to overcome the handicaps
suffering as a result of disabilities
incurred in line of duty.
CHARGES HEARD TODAY.
These charges were heard today at
Central High School, where the Ma
tionsi Disabled Soldiers League is
In session. N.lfsSe gg
Not only are tfINy in high places
In the Central office of the board in
Washington, but their system has ex-
tended throughout the country and
kept within its grasp even the branch
offices through which mon must clear
before they are allowed to start any
kind of training for which Congress
has appropriated miilions of dollars.
A proportion of these men formerly
were paid lobbyists who infested the
C"P'tNA III al " tc8ts-
lstion In which they were interested.
Today. despite the fact that the
boards defense is that IL cannot get
the proper employees because of the
small salaries offered, they are re-
ceiving larger salaries than they re-
ceived before locating in the sinecures
In the organization, which has been
numerically flayed because of it's
incompentency. The salaries OF thess
men run as high as s6,o a year.
5000 A YEAR.
The overwhelming majority of
this contingent are not world war
veterans themselves and are rated
incompetent to advise or direct
into training of a proper nature the
lame and the MANNED. because of
their own limited experience in one
trade. Men who have spent prac-
tically all of their working time in
a certain kind OF shop today are at
tempting to advise the disabled sol
der into what advanced college
course he should go. while on the
institutional side men whose careers
have been largely restricted to school
teaching are attempting to intelli-
gently advise men on the various
oA SofnS tTdnS Win
which they have only the most SUI
.pericial knowledge. In the mean
time, members of other unions can
not understand why they DO not re-
ceive the proper proportion of rep
resentation on the board.
ATTENDANCE NOT LARGE.
The attendance at the convention
OF the disabled mon has not been par
ticularly large. but II was pointed out
this morning that II would not bs
necessary for more than half a dozen
men to so before Congress with the
evidence which the league has, to
force action on the plan to reforrn
cedure Of the agencies against which
men in all sections of the country
are protesting.
Before Congressional investi-
eating committee yesterday Senator
Pomerene said of the Federal board,
There seems TO be a lot of wooden
pegs with wooden heads directing its
affairs"
Members of the league said today
that II Is exactly such a condition
as the Ohio Senator criticized that
brought about the organisation OF tho
disabled men and the present conven.
tion in Washington.
A former teacher in a hospital in
Baltimore told the same committee
that the courses for some OF the dis
abled men are so utterly unified for
them that but 10 per cent attend
classes for which Uncle Sam pays.
She cited the cases OF men who were
illiterate being assigned to learn type
writing before they knew the lam
guage. The same witness testified
that teachers are compelled 20 sign
statement that they will not use i'm
fuence to expose the breakdown OF
the board. and the Senate has directed
the board to Immediately furnish the
committee with copies Of these
pledges
URGED TO STAND TOGETHER
Aside from the opeine address OF
National Commander George II. Gil
len. In which he urged the men to
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