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Show CONGRESS IS URGED TO ACT Five Provisions Requested (n Aid of Disabled Veterans, Amending Vocational Training Law. Amendment of the law under which disabled veterans of the World war are given vocational training, so as to provide five things demanded by the last convention of the American Legion at Cleveland was urged In congress by Legion representatives. The five provisions requested bj the Legion are: 1. Vocational training for American citizens who served with the allied armies, who were disabled and who are not entitled to training under the present law. 2. Training with pay for all disabled dis-abled veterans with 10 per cent or more disability, instead of training with pay for some and. training without with-out pay for others, as now provided. 3. Vocational training for the widows wid-ows and orphans of all men who died in the service. 4. The right of the federal board for vocational education to give all disabled men in training such medical care and treatment as is necessary to keep them at their courses. 5. That all disabled men in training train-ing shall receive $100 a month from the government while in training and those with dependents $120 ' a month, instead of different sums based upon the cost of living in different localities local-ities as now provided. A special plea was made by John Thomas Taylor of the national legislative legis-lative committee of the Legion for vocational training for the widows and orphans of the American dead of the World war. He said that undoubtedly un-doubtedly the 50,000 American children, chil-dren, whose fathers slept in Flanders fields were entitled to the same educational edu-cational advantages that they would have had, were their fathers alive and able to provide for them. The widows wid-ows of the men who died in France, he added, were likewise entitled, the bread-winning member of the family having been killed in defense of the country, to be taught some kind of work of trade. |