Show I MARQUIS CHILDS Crafty Employers T Taking dking Advantage of Vet Training Editors Editor's note TIt t the second sec lice ond mid of two tuo columns d dealing aUng with t serious abuses In veterans veterans' trainIng train train- Ing I the on-the- WASHINGTON The The Job training provided in the G. G I. I bill bm of ot rights can help both the nation and the individual It Itcan Itcan can help to supply the deficit of f skilled craftsmen carpenters plumbers tailors which we need if we arc are to maintain a high national Income in this country But It I la is open to serious abuses The evidence is mounting mounting mounting mount mount- ing that unscrupulous employers are taking advantage of the subsistence subsistence subsistence sub sub- allowance granted veterans veterans veterans vet vet- erans in training to employ young men at less than a living Jiving wage An American Federation of Labor publication recently pointed point point- ed out some of ot these abuses Employers were getting filling station attendants car greasers clerks and so on at a cost to them of only an hour The veterans administration made up the balance of a living Jiving wage by granting a fa- a subsistence allowance allowance al al- al lowance on the claim that the was in training for another job The majority of employers are of course too conscientious to enter into such schemes But there is ls apparently a growing minority of chiselers In one state the A F L found a garage had four journeymen mechanics employed Under state federal-state apprentice commission standards standards standards stand stand- ards these journeymen could properly train two apprentices The company now has the services services services ices of 19 the on-the-job veteran trainees In another instance trainees on a construction job were paid 10 a week It is obvious with only the limited number of oC teachers available available available avail avail- able said the A F L report that t the these h e s e 19 the on trainees either were placed at sweeping floors washing cars or at other duties which w would not enable them to obtain the training they were entitled to tor r receive e c e C i v e. e How could these trainees be properly trained under these conditions How could they expect to meet the standards of ot competition with which they will be faced when they are turned loose This might be put down In part at least to the jealousy of M I craft unions desiring to res the number of men in th the trades But outside in tion show shows that many employ arc chiseling wy j On the farm the Intention congress in passing the thc G C G. G I. I I b to toof of 01 rights right Is also being dra vented The vocational rehab tation and educational pr prof pro prom of the veterans' veterans Is actually promoting a pr whereby farmers who ar are erans qualify for subsistence j. j lowance They go to school four tour hours a week and take h. h additional hours hour of counseling from a vo tio agricultural teacher j As the law law is now no being beine il ministered this entitles a subsistence allowance of or 65 I month if unmarried and 90 tl married The veteran i. i fc 11 to course either the son ot 1 farmer and therefore Iv lives it A his own family or he lives w wit his wife on his own farm fahn Se the subsistence allowance t U fa b fI reality a bonus v With promotion by bythe th the V VJ I and by state agricultural train tra ing centers the number gett lI this called so-called training ia is' increasing This is particular true in the southern doesn't matter of course ii h hoi 1 m much u c h the veteran farmer ii making through his own effo effort on his farm t. t He may already have receive 4 the allowance granted self self elt-ei elt veterans for a year a aft Irta their discharge He can clam clata up to a month for a year yeah I his income in any single manU falls below that level This lege too is being abused i w u cording to reports to Washing ton A Florida fruit gro groW growe cashed in a 1000 orange cr crone one month and proceeded the tel lowing month to claim his io The generous benefits pro prod provid provided d ed by congress will break do unless these abuses are stopped If they are not stopped a mJ minor minority ity of the veteran will get what will be in milt a bonus that congress never ia tended |