The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-07

rolled, but all will be working on de- fense training. All the frills like the lstudy of handicraft and the graphic arts, ceramics and weaving, even some of the nurses aid training will be wiped out of the curriculum, and unless you've been one of WAS ar dent admirers, you can kiss most of thisAgocdby as good riddance. { WAS in-school program takes a healthy hacking, too. At the peak, half a million youngsters were get- ting financial help from Uncle Sam. Last year there were 90,000 college and 325,000 high school students getting government gravy. Next year it will be only 25,000 to 30,000 col 1ege students, and if any provision at all is made for aiding high school students, it will go to not more than 60,O00.
 In converting to war basis, IVA is given the opportunity to do real lily essential war training and mo- thing else.
 RECRUITS
 LABOR
 As a matter of fact, IVA has set up about the only orderly admins tration which the government now has for transfer of young workers from areas in which there is sur- plus labor to areas in which there is labor shortage, particularly ap- prentice shortages. This controlled migration works through what's known as the Interstate Transfer program, which functions like this: 2 IVA will set up a shop. in one | of these surplus labor areas. say in Kentucky or any of the Appa- lachian areas which don't have many war production plants, or in one of the stranded population areas like the cut-over lumber ] regions of upper Michigan. Through the U. s. Employment Service, youngsters looking for jobs will be recruited for an IVA short course in which they are given aptitude tests to see what skills they really have. Tn this tryout the youngsters get paid a maximum of $25 month if they live at home or $8 month plus room and board if they live at an IVA center. Here the misfits the youngsters with no mechani- cal aptituted, are weeded out. Those considered suitable mate rial for further training are trans ferred to defense production area say southern New England or south 1 ern Michigan, and are given further instruction in better equipped shops till they'fe ready to take job in some particular industry. These transfers of youngsters are made by groups or 30 or 40 at time. IVA supervisors in the receiving areas scout rooming places for them and thus try to make sure that the youngsters are kept with people from home, and are not thrown on their own too abruptly: It's cod- oiling, in way, but if it keeps 1 the youngster from heading fo1 the hills after the first attack ot homesickness, it's that much net gain for war production.
 l SUPPLIES
 DEMAND
 But the principal gain from this controlled migration is that it is bringing fresh labor into areas where the local labor supply has long since been exhausted. The mountain areas of Virginia, for in- stance, have sent 400 or 500 young sters, who had never seen anything bigger than rowboat, to builc ships at Norfolk and Newport News shipyards, and youngsters from Ok lahoma have been sent as far east as Connecticut.
 l For the future, the IVA train. 1 ing problem will have to be kept 1 flexible to meet varying man. power needs. This month the de. mand may be for welders, nex month light sheet metal worker! for airplane plants, and 50 on l