Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1915 — HAS TRADE SCHOOL FOR MEN [ARTICLE]

HAS TRADE SCHOOL FOR MEN

Great Britain .Fits Grown-Ups for Jobs Which Require Skilled 5 Labor. London. —One of the most interesting employment experiments in England is a trade training school for men, enabling them to shift from a trade temporarily stagnant ; owing to the war, into one where skilled labor is urgently needed. r Tie experiment is being carried out by the Prince of Wales Relief fund, and if successful may be indefinitely extended. Furniture trade was one of those adversely affecteL by the war, and a large number of skilled furniture workers have since become skilled leather workers, on military equipment. The school was opened December 7, last. In the first five weeks of its existence it enrolled 139 men, 64 of whom already have "graduated” and obtained employment as leather stitchers. More than half of the men placed have been more than forty years old, and the report of the first five weeks’ work in the school says men more than forty, “and indeed over fifty,” are as quick and adaptable as the younger men.