The union times. (New Haven, Conn.) 1941-1948, 1943-02-13

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said. There is room for 90 more chill
dren of the pre-school age in these
schools. However, most of the schools
are operating on an $50 am. to 2 80
pm. schedule and thus offer no op-
portunity for adequate child care at
present for working mothers. He felt
that another factor in retarding
mothers now at work from sending
their children to the nurseries or to
the after-school child care center
which, with an attendance of 40 chill
dren is only 500 utilized, is the fact
that these centers are not located in
the neighborhoods of many war work
ing mothers.
Edgar C. BrOwnell, of the Train
ing Within-Industry program, told
the conference that the purpose of
the program is to train men in war
plants to do a job quickly, con-
scientiOusly and efficiently.
'We want to go to all firms en-
gagged in war production work with
our program, and ask your help
in this proven method of impart-
ing skill to new workers more
quickly than by the old methods. 81
Brownell said that New Haven
was behind Bridgeport and other
Connecticut industrial cities i'm ac-
cepting the program. In 1912,
about 1,5OO supervisors completed
T.W.I. training to teach new and
speedier OperatiOnal methods to
industrial recruits.
Mrs. Sara Lee Fleming, President
OF the Womens Civic League made a
moving plea for full opportunity OF
Negro workers in industrial work
She cited survey to show that only
negligible minority of workers ex-
press any outright prejudice against
Negroes as fellow workers.
C Miss Claire Neikind, CLIO. CO.
chairman of the Joints Committee
sponsoring the conference, suggest
ed two definite plans for alternating
the shortage of workers that is fast
developing in New Haven.
She stated that lOw-wage scales
in the city tended to discourage
local workers from taking jobs ''at
home" and it discouraged new
workers from coming to town. AS
means of correcting this maIad-
justment, Miss Neikind urged all
agencies to use their influence to
speed up the machinery of War
Labor Board to grant wage increases
when and where workers win them
through collective bargaining with
their employers.
She was of the opinion that there
are sufficient number of women
in the community to fill necessary
jobs if some means of soliciting
their help could be devised. To
this end, she urged the Civilian
Defense Council of New Haven to
establish the block plan and to per-
init the use of this plan as means
of learning the whereabouts of un-
employed women and persuading
the INTO accept war jobs.
Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, a
consultant of the War Manpower
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be assured that the education of their
children will continue throughout the
war.
Il am convinced" she said, that
youngsters in their teens need greater
care by their parents than infants"
An obstacle to women recruiting for
war work is the feeling that if they
turn their educational endeavors
toward learning technics and skills
now needed for such work, that they
will have no future following the war.
This theme of security versus war
work was dwelt on by Harry Russell,
assistant director of the Labor Divis-
ion of the New England W.P.B.
B. nj. Petit, of the New Haven
Housing Authority, revealed that
it was necessary to take applica-
tons from persons other than those
classified as Immigrant war work
ers to fill about One-third of the
West Hills war housing project of
800 units.
Gail Smith, director of the Labor
Division of the N. E. War Pro-
ductiOn Board, stated that he
was opposed to recruiting moth