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FEDERAL WORKS AGE!JCY Work Projects A~~inistration For Release Monday , March 16, 19u2 USE OF IDLE SHOPS TO TRAIN WAR PRODUCTION WORYERS AUTHORIZED BY WPA A plan by which idle machine , welding and sheet metal shops can be used . to train war production workers wa.s announced today by Howard O. Hunter, Commission3r of ',fork Projects . Under this procedure WFA State Administrators may cooperate with local school authorities by leasing for them idl3 shops needed for expansion of their defense traininc prog_rorr,s if school fnnds a!'e not available for this :purpose . The auxilie:ry sr-op tr:::j_nin,:~ program hc1s be,m worked out by the WPA Di vision of Traj ning and Reer.tployment in cooperat:i on with the Un:ited States Office of Education and the War Froduction Boa!'d . Trainees ma'! be c1_ssigncd fror::. bo th WPA and United Sta.tes Employment Service rolls . Local school boards will furnish instr1J.ctors and be res p onsj ble for 0peration of th~o courses un(far th2 vocatio'1al tr&ining pro:rram of t he United Stat8s Office of :Sducation . Purpos e of tl:e pl:m is to meet tho growing n3ed for tr_:iined ·work.3 rs in war industri ,:; s by expanding the scope and facili t:l. ?S.;'9f the existing D,=1fens ~~ Tr1.i ning Progr::un in vocation schools , under wlfich 200 , 000 WP.A worke rs alre3.dy have been trained for jobs in W3.r production plants . Lengtt of tr.e training period will be det3rmined by local school officials but norm1.lly will not exc0ed 10 we::,ks of 40 hours instruction per week . A cl;iuse in each leas ,3 will p rovid s for immediat,J r ,:; turn of the shop to the lessor upon r e c eipt of a war production contract . In such case trainees may bc:; r etaint.od in the shop under the " in plant " training progr~~ . --oOo -- Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
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