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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
DECEMBER21, 1918
ANENT TRAINING OF APPRENTICES
Employes Begin to Realize That Apprenticeship
System Must Be Adopted Along Right Lines
to Insure Trained Employes for the Future
Many employers, it should be said to their
credit, are thoroughly alive to the necessity of
apprenticeship training and are doing all they can
individually, by action in their own shops and
by making their voices heard in employers' con-
ventions and elsewhere, to awaken their fellow
employers to this industrial need. It is never-
theless a fact that most employers are giving
little heed to the subject.
The average employer, not from necessity but
because of thoughtlessness, or habit, still pre-
fers to get workmen whom some one else has
trained, says American Industries.
When he
employs one or more boys he does so not for
the purpose of making them skilled workers, but
because there is a certain amount of "boy work"
about the place which can be done cheaply by
boys. There is not only a widespread indiffer-
ence among employers to the proper training of
young workers, but there is often a selfish ob-
jection to it. Many employers make the ex-
cuse that there is not sufficient time to teach
boys the trade; consequently, they refuse to
employ inexperienced young people, preferring
to leave their training to others. These em-
ployers demand experienced workers and will
take no others, except that they employ boys
for boy jobs, and do not give even these a
proper chance for advancement, so that they
have to migrate to other places where such
chance is given, or remain forever in the
"lumper" class.
From whatever point of view one considers
such an apprenticeship, it must be admitted that
it does not meet the requirements of the indus-
try, the needs of youth, nor the best interests
of the employer. Such system or lack of sys-
tem discloses the indifference of the employer,
lack of forethought on the part of the boy and
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his parents, and a downright betrayal of appren-
ticeship education which should not be permitted
in any enlightened community. This condition
unfortunately gives some basis for the frequent
condemnation of workshop training.
When trade instruction is given in public trade
schools, it must be clearly understood that this
type of education must be differentiated from
the trade training which can be obtained in the
shop, as the public trade school can teach only
part of the required technic; the remainder must
be acquired through practice on actual work
under trade and commercial conditions. In
the case of trade instruction through apprentice-
ship, on the other hand, the public school can
effectively supplement shop study and shop
work through correlated continuation instruc-
tion, even though the shop apprenticeship sys-
; tem provides, as it should, for trade training
through practice in actual work and for applied
instruction in related sciences, in order to de-
velop both a mastery of the trade and an indus-
trial understanding and intelligence.
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War Trade Board Announces That All Restric-
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WASHINGTON, D. C, December 16.—The War
Trade Board announce in a new ruling (414)
that all restrictions upon the quantity of crude
rubber which may be imported from overseas
have been removed. Applications for licenses
to import this commodity will now be consid-
ered without limit as to quantity.
It is also announced that the War Trade
Board withdraws the Government option price,
and will require no further undertaking relative
to maximum values.
Careful consideration has been given to the
advisability of eliminating the requirement of
guarantees, but it has been found necessary to
require those undertakings for the present.
This relaxation, however, will not authorize
the importation of any shipments of rubber from
any country other than the country of origin.
Applications for import licenses for such ship-
ments will not be considered until after Febru-
ary 13, 1919. The same policy will be applied
to applicants for licenses to import shipments
of rubber now in the United States which have
been made in violation of the regulations.
THE RIGHT OF BUSINESS AFTER WAR
signed, America was about as unprepared for
peace as she was unprepared for war when we
went into war. It seems to me that this was
largely due to the emphasis which was placed
upon the fact that America had not gone into
this war for any ulterior motive of selfishness.
"Arid, thank God, America played the game
through to the end, and the subjects of trade
and trade expansion and America's interests
were largely left in the background during the
period while the war lasted.
"But we can also to-day thank God that from
now on- we can be just ordinary, plain Ameri-
cans, and without any impropriety, think in
terms of America and her trade and commerce.
"Now the fact is, that England, France and
the other countries, with the utmost frankness,
have set us an example and are to-day, and'for
months have been, discussing the duties and the
opportunities that would follow this war.
America is seeking no advantage, but she has a
right to insist that her business problems shall
be considered not only by business men but by
those who are representing the different inter-
ests of this country both abroad and at home."
Time to Think in Terms of America and Her
Interests and of Her Trade and Commerce,
Declares Merchants' Association Official
At a recent meeting of the Members' Coun-
cil of the Merchants' Association of New York
Chairman William C. Breed had the follow-
ing interesting comment to make regarding the
right of business to assert itself with the de-
mands of war out of the way. He said:
"We all know that when the armistice was
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