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from what is here set forth that this
is a matter which comes very def
nitely within the concern of labor and
toward the solution of which labor
can make a significant contribution.
For labor speaks out of decades OF
concern for child life; it has stood
valiantly as the champion of the aboli-
ton of child labor. 1t has urged the
extension of educational opportunities
in order to meet some of those re-
quirements. 1t has also urged the ex-
pansion of recreational opportunities
for ALL 1t has taken those methods
calculated to meet youth needs at the
point where they can best be met.
JObless Youth
Que of labor's experience there has
come some clear-cut conclusions. In
the first place, while unemployment
among youth is an increasingly seri-
Gus problem, it is impossible to re-
solve this problem apart from the
total problem. Youth are a part of
the body polite; they are an indi-
visible part of every nation. When
unemployment abounds, youth are
among many other sufferers; when
jobs are plentiful, youth will find
work.
"In the second place, labor realizes
the wisdom of extending secondary
educational opportunities to our youth
to meet the need of unemployed youth
in many of our communities. While
raising the school age level is not a
permanent solution for the question
of youth unemployment, it does place
upon the educational authorities re-
sponsibility which they are better
equipped to meet than any other
agency in the community.
"The decision of the National
Youth Administration to develop a
Juvenile Employment Division in the
Labor Employment Offices, to assist
in the placement of young people in
their labor market, should materially
help in finding work for youth
Vocational Training
"Your committee notes the concern
of the Permanent Committee on Edu-
cation for the activity of the National
Youth Administration in connection
with vocational training. The diff
Guilty that has arisen in the National
Youth Administration is due to the
confusion in the minds of this agency
as to whether their function is to per-
form vocational training or work eX-
perience of pre-vocational character.
1t is the considered judgment of your
: committee that vocational training of
our youth should be done through ex-
isting educational agencies adopted to
meet this need On the other hand,
, in the matter Of work experience of a
distinctly prevocational character,
your committee agrees with the pres
, ent policy of the National Youth Ad-
ministration.
| New Curriculum Urged
"But what has become clear is the
| need for a revision of our high school
, curriculum to meet the changing
: needs of industry as well as the eX-
panding needs Of youth. AS the sec
ondary school becomes common
school for all of our youth, it is clear
! that we must have more in the way
of professional training and pre-
: vocational education for our youth.
Religious Training
"Your committee cannot do better
than to make it's own the closing
l paragraph of this significant section
on Youth from the Councils Report
, "'Every age has a responsibility
for the young. The American Fed
Grafton of Labor shares in that re-
sponsibility which includes provisions
for material well-being and oppor.
tunity for physical, intellectual anc
spiritual development.
"'We as an organization can be re.
sponsible only for assuring oppor,
! tunities and the right to benefit by
| them, but the development of person.
? ality and spiritual capacity in oul
| young lies outside the reach of oul
] organization and devolves upon the
home, the church and those teachers
, whose own personalities give then
power to help the young grow in in
sight and wisdom.
"'In order to conserve influences
J that are necessary to discipline anc
ideals in living, the American Fed
, Grafton of Labor declares for freedom
of religion and religious training a.
the most fundamental contribution We
can make to the children of the fu
, ture.'"