The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1941-12-24
III. MERCHANT
Marine OFFERS
0PP0R TUNITIES

Montana State Employment Service
will join in a national effort to re-
cruit apprentice seamen to man Amer
ica's rapidly expanding merchant
marine. Every local employment Of
flee in Montana viii begin at once to
register applicants for training as ap-
prentice seamen.
Paul V. McNutt, federal security adj
ministrator, has advised Barclay
Craighead chairman of the Unemploy-
ment Compensation Commission, that
10000 seamen will be needed in the
next two years and that all state en-
ployment services are called upon to
recruit men between IS and 23 for
the jobs.
Arrangements for the recruiting of
seamen was made between the federal
security agency and the United States
Maritime Commission Every person
accepted will be paid while in training,
will be assigned to active service on
completion of training, and will be
expected to serve at least one year.
Some 1,200 new merchant ships
will be launched during the next two
years and will require 10000 addition
al seamen in dock and engine depart
ments, as radio operators, and as
cooks and bakers" said the Social
Security Boards report to the Mon
tana agencies. Young men are
needed at once and those accepted
for training are assured of good jobs
at unusually good pay because there
is lack of trained men to man these
new vessels.
Young men between the ages of
IL and % are urged to apply at their
local state employment office. They
will have to meet physical and char
acter standards established by the
Maritime Service. Though the Mari
time Service is not an enlisted serv-
ice, selective service boards have in
structions to waive induction, where
possible, of men in the merchant
marine. Apprentices may join the
Merchant Marine Reserve of the u.
S. Navy Reserve and thus be exempt
from selective service"
The Montana Employment Service
was advised that trainees will receive
free transportation to the point of en-
rollment in the school, will be given
a clothing allowance of 500, will be
provided with quarters, subsistence
and free medical and dental care and, |
on completion of the course, will be |
transportation to assigned |
ports. Pay while in training will be |
minimum of $21 a month for men
in dock, engineering and cooks and |
bakers schools and from $36 to $54
for those in the radio school |
Base pay for graduates employed on |
ocean and Great Lakes merchant |
ships is $3.50 per month for ordinary
seamen and engine room helpers, and |
$3.50 for able seamen and qualified |
members of the engine department, |
plus bonuses. Base pay plus bonuses,
in almost all cases, will amount to |
more than 5000 a month. Cooks and |
bakers receive about the same pay. |
Radio operators base pay varies from
S1O5 to s165 per month, plus bonuses
and extra payment.
Enrollees in deck, engineer and ste
wards departments may receive train
ng at Hoffman Island In New York
larbor; Port Heuneme near Los An
seles; or st. Petersburg, Fla The
ado school and a cooks and bakers
school are at Gallup Island in Boston
larbor. Enrollees also gain practical
experience at sea on Maritime Com
mission training ships
The local Montana employment Of
ices, Mr.. Craighead said, will give
and preliminary inter-
news to applicants, then refer them
o Maritime Service enrolment Off
;ers.