S. W. ASHE (Chairman, New England Branch Committee), Chairman,
Education and Welfare Department, General Electric Co., Pittsfield,
Mass.
JOHN C. FRAZEE (Chairman, Pennsylvania Branch Committee), Member of
State Committee of Public Safety, 704 Finance Bldg., Philadelphia,
Pa.
[1]C. R. DOOLEY, Educational Department, Westinghouse Electric &
Manufacturing Co., East Pittsburgh, Pa.
R. O. SMALL, Deputy Commissioner of Education, State House, Boston,
Mass.
DR. CHARLES MCCARTHY, Ph. D., Chief, Reference Library, Madison,
Wis.
ALVIN E. DODD, National Society for the Promotion of Industrial
Education, 140 West 42d Street, New York City.
Training for War Industries, which was heretofore developed under the
SECTION ON INDUSTRIAL TRAINING of the Council of National Defense,
has been taken over by the
TRAINING AND DILUTION SERVICE
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
618 17TH ST., N. W.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
to whom all correspondence should be addressed.
[1] Executive Committee.
[2] Chairman.
INTENSIVE TRAINING OF UNSKILLED WORKERS AS A MEANS OF OVERCOMING
LABOR SHORTAGE
The Committee on Labor, Advisory Commission of the Council of
National Defense, of which Samuel Gompers is chairman, authorizes the
following from the Official Bulletin of August 14:
The grave situation of shortage of labor (it now being estimated
that there is a shortage of 250,000 skilled workers[3]) is being met
by a new quick method of training operatives. All over the country,
day by day, one factory after another falls into line and puts in a
training department to train its own people—the same sort of quick,
intensive-training plan to meet the same sort of situation which the
regulations in France prescribe for every manufacturer employing 300
people or more, and the English ministry of munitions requires in its
contracts for materials. And the situation must be met in greater
degree and substantially all factories must train their workers if
the 750,000 new skilled workers which the country needs by January 1
are skilled and efficient and standing at their job by that time.
[3] Note: September 30, now estimated 500,000.