TRAINING AND DILUTION SERVICE
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
618 17TH ST., N. W.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
to whom all correspondence should be addressed.
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[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.
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[3] Note: September 30, now estimated 500,000.