Evening star., 1940-06-24
Plans Pushed 10 Keep
Trade Schools 0pen
During Summer
100000 to Be Troined,
If Needed, for Nations
Defense Industries
By ROBERT BRUSKIN.

1St1llS o"llIly W dooUlC GIL lIllIIlEe
diate flow of trained workers into
defense industries, DR.. John w.
Studebaker, United States commits
sioner Of education, today prepared
to have vocational schools through
out the Nation opened for summer
classes.
Soon after Sidney Hillman, CO.
ordinator of personnel for the Ma
tional Defense Commission, an
nounced plans to train 100000
workers, II needed, for rearmament
plants, DR.. Studebaker sent tele-
grams urging Governors of every
State to set up legal machinery per-
mitting the slashing of red tape for
opening the 1,053 schools with Fed
eral funds within two weeks.
A large part of Mr. Hillman's pro-
gram g'ill be set in operation as soon
as President Roosevelt signs the de-
ficiency appropriation bill, which
was sent to the White House Satur-
day. 1t contains 8,195 900 for that
purpose, of which $4,000 900 is to
be used for training 10000 persons
during a 10-week course in voca-
tional schools during the next three
months. Students of all ages will re-
ceive 40 to AZ hours of instruction
each week on machinery and tools
which ordinarily are not in opera.
ton during the summer school re-
cess.
State Directors to Meet.
1 0r CtYIIntnEn,-
plans, prepared during the past two
months, at three-day meeting of
State vocational directors and school
superintendent who will assemble
here tomorrow.
Although its request for 81 900 900
was cut in half by the House Com
mittee, the Employment Service OF
the Federal Security Agency antici-
pated presidential approval of the
Dill and began classifying $500 900
registered workers to determine how
many would be instantly available
for plants needing more workers in
filling defense contracts.
A sl,000,000 loan fund was pro-
vided in the bill to enable workers
to travel to other cities where jobs
are available. The loan would be
repaid from their pay checks
A Labor Department request for
s390,000 was slashed to sl95 900. but
plans were advanced for immediate
increase of personnel to study ap-
premiership opportunities in in
dustries
The vocational schools and Labor
Department groups will work
through 1,343 local advisory councils,
composed of labor, education and
management representatives, and,
therefore, no opposition is expected
from labor unions to the increase of
workers in the various crafts.
No Difficulties Expected.
A spokesman for the American
Federation of Labor declared it had
$4,000 construction worker mem
oers unemployed and about 250OOo
more unemployed in the metal
trades, but that up to now there
mad been cooperation between the
vocational schools and labor unions
IN supplying industries with semi
skilled workers. No future difficult
ties, ne said, were expected.
MIR. Hillman's plans to expand
training facilities of the Cv;Ian
Conservation Corps and NationAl
Youth Administration must wait for
future appropriations since none was
provided in the deficiency bill.
In announcing his program yes
terday, Mr.. Hillman declared: 90 .
principal consideration must be
given the effective use of those now
unemployed and those skilled work.
ers in semi-skilled and unskilled oc-
equations.
Many men on relief rolls will be
provided with training facilities in
the vocational schools to permit
them to attain efficiency in some
new occupation or to receive re-
fresher courses in their former
trades.