St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-07-26
Dear Joe
BY JAMES L. HICKS

LatlOn, and any other group who
has claimed or is claiming that IL
would like TO help the colored vet
eran get readjusted to civilian life.
The Veterans Administrator has
given assurances that if you are
in any kind of reputable business
IN the United States, there may be
submitted you an on-the-job train
ing program through which you
can give a veteran a job and for
which the Veterans Administration
will gladly pay him from sos to
$50 a month, dependent upon
whether he is married or single.
We have further assurance that
the plan for the on-the-job training
Of the veteran we send you will
be approved by the board Of edu-
cation in the state in which you do
business.
The on-the-job training program
through which you can hire the
veteran will be drawn up here by
experienced Veterans Admins
tration training officers, some of
whom have been doing exactly that
kind Of work for 20 years.
The plan will not cost you a cent.
When you get it you will not be
obligated to use it in any way, if
you do not choose to. If you like
the plan and submit it to your state
board Of education and have your
business approved for on-the-j job
training of veterans it still doesn't
mean that you must hire a veteran
this year or any other year, but
if you ever decide to do so all you
have to do is go out and find one
and put him to work.
After ten months of daily COW
erage of the problems of the colOred
veterans, the conclusion is reached
that this is a good blueprint for
jobs for them.
Conferences have been held with
A. l.. King, John W. Holland,
Ernest f. johnson and Almon
Clapp, all senior training officers
Of the Veterans Administration
who have also given assurances
that the plan is sound and that if
the information is got across the
business men and organizations,
cOlored veterans will have been rem
dered service.
Actual on-the-job training pro-
grams, through which civic-minded
cOlOled business men have hired
colored veterans who are now on
the job working and being paid
subsistence by the Veterans Ad-
ministratiOn, will be outlined in this
column from week to week. You
in your business or you and your
organization can do the same thing.
In the meantime, if you have
been toying with the idea of plac-
ing a veteran in your business for
on-the-job training and have de-
layed carrying out the idea be- .
cause you did not fully understand
just how to go about lining up your
training program so that the board
of education in your state would
approve your shop for this training,
write this paper, giving the name
Of your business, the type of bust
ness, and the phase of business in
which you would like to train a
veteran.
Upon receipt of this information
in Washington, where it will be
forwarded, an experienced Veterans
Administration training officer,
who has been drawing up such
programs for years, will be con-
suited and a program will be work
ed out for your particular bust
ness. The plan will be sent you.
There are no strings attached. It's
simply n blueprint to open up more
on-the-jOb opportunities for col
oTed veterans.
A program through which a real
estate office may place veterans
in on-the-j job training positions will
be outlined next week. This pro-
gram was submitted to the Veter-
ans Administration by a colored
real estate operator and when APP
proved by the Veterans Admins
tration and the local school board,
Mr.. Clapp called it the best train
ing program for veterans he has
ever seen.
This will be followed by out
lines of programs through which
organizations like the National As
SOCldNlOu LOT lut AuNduCGIutuI Ol
Colored People and the National
Urban League may hire veterans
in each of their field offices and be
assured that the Veterans Admin
istration will approve them and pay
the veterans S65 or $50 a month,
according TO his marital status.
Plans for churches and fraternal
organizations also will follow.
In the meantime, a salute to the
North Carolina Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company, the Afro-American
Newspapers, James f. Scott, a real
estate operator, the Lewis A. John
son Co, Inc, the Derricottee Shoe
Repair Shops, the Cortez Peters
Business School, all of Washington,
d. c., who have had approved pro-
grams for On-the-job training of
colored veterans and now have them
working in their establishments.
If your establishment is not ap-
proved for on-the-job training,
let's get il approved Immediately.