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Resolutions mad© at the Eastern Seaboard Apprenticeship
Conference' In June, 1949, included on© concerning the public
vocational schools and the' selection of apprentices* It Is
as follows:
Public vocational schools should be encouraged,■
'by Joint apprenticeship committees and other
appropriate persons in industry, to establish pre-
job training for apprenticeship applicants. "Such
pre-job training will perform a significant function
In the selection of applicants for employment-la
the apprenticeship program," Vocational schools
should be certain that the pre-job training program
is a part of a definite apprenticeship prograai. and '
both I®15 3r®1*® an<a agree on details' of
The foregoing discussion concerns steps taken by com-
mittees and school authorities to improve apprentice train-
ing and to decrease the nusber of drop-outs in apprentice
training through adequate selection. On the-other hand#
drop-outs are still evident even with the improved selee- -
tion methods. The greatest cause can best be presented -
with an example* A young G. I* apprentice recently expressed
to the editor of the American Builder magazine a -complaint
about the training he was receiving* in seven months of
apprenticeship, he had received only two months of .actual
training# The rest of the time was spent doing the work of
a labdrer and at one-half.the wage scale of a laborer. The
G* J* and with reason, that he was being treated
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Moses, Morgan Clay. American Apprenticeship and its Contribution to Industrial Arts, thesis, May 1950; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc163804/m1/71/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .