New England bulletin., 1949-04-09
SOUND OFF The Dept. For Vets and CTS
 By Glenn Douglass

the Connecticut Department of
 Education, to the effect that l you forfeit some of your sub
 sistence allowance if you fail to report at your local VA for l your certificate. As you know, the establishment for which you work must be ap- proved for the-job-training un- der Public Law 346.
 You, yourself, must obtain from your local VA what is called an eligibility certificate which estab- fishes your right to receive the on- job-training benefits.
 On the job training works this way.
 The employer and employee have agreed that the employee is to be l hired to be trained in certain skill and at certain salary. AL | though the employee is inexperi- enced in the job for which he is training, the Government will pay him, during the course of his train ing period Git may be as long as year) an amount of money monthly which will bring his sal ary up to the full amount which would be earned by skilled work CT. The employer pays him at a certain level, with Uncle Sam sup plying the balance. | All vets are advised that be-
 fore, or immediately during
 initial m pl o y m n t, hey
 should contact the nearest VA
 office to determine whether
 their certificate is valid. Here, in Hartford, you may
 apply to the Connecticut State Apprenticeship Council, 285
 Broad St., which is the ap-
 proving agency for all appren-
 ticeship programs. The State
 Board of Education is the ap-
 proving agency for all nOn-ap-
 premiership programs.
 Why not check up and see if everything is as it should be so that you'll have no future compl- cations.
 And if you're not employed in an on-the- job training program, but see prospects of being so em- ployed anywhere, why not write this department for further infor- nation?
 E Buying Your Own Home
 VA headquarters in Washington announced the other day that l. 100000 World War II vets have purchased homes in the past four years with the aid of CT home loans totalling eight billion dollars.
 Have you looked into the
 possibility of obtaining such fi-
 nancial assistance in purchas- ing your own home? Why save rent receipts when
 you can get Government aid in becoming your own landlord?
 There have been many ru-
 mors that discrimination is
 practised against Negro veter- ans in the attempt to buy homes under this system. Within the near future, this department will publish find
 ings on this question. I You can help us in this con-
 nection and, at the same time,
 help yourself.
 If you have had any such exper1- ence or know of anyone who has, get in touch with us and let us have the facts.
 Nothing will ever be done about discriminations of this or any other nature, if they are accepted pas sively.
 Provided you have a good, air tight case, this department is will ing to go to bat for you because we are committed to the belief that this type of bias is especially vii cious and not to be taken lying i down.
 Whats Happening?
 Belong to a vet organization Get in touch with us and let us know just what your vet group is doing, when it meets, what it's plans and purposes are. To the many families in this
 state which have recently had
 the saddening, but reassuring experience of receiving for re- burial the bodies of their
 loved ones who died overseas, , this department expresses sim
 cere sympathy. It is consola- ton to many, however sad ! memories may be, that those close to them who gave their | lives in the last world strug-
 gle. now lie beneath American soil.