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Show Skills Abound In Reich Camps Many Inmates Have Trades And Professions Needed Ey Other Countries. BABENHAUSEN, GERMANY. Displaced persons camps in Germany Ger-many can supply skilled workers as immigrants to any country that needs them. Most men and many women among those people uprooted uproot-ed by war have trades, handicrafts and professions needed by countries short ot manpower. Many DP camp Inmates who had no skills are learning them in camp training schools taught by fellow DPs, hopefully preparing for a chance to go to work in some new country. In this DP camp In Babenhausen are 1,071 persons brought by the Nazis from the Baltic countries of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania as forced laborers. Learn Practical Trades. Half of them are taking vocational voca-tional courses. Some who already have one trade are acquiring another an-other in which it might be easier to obtain employment in a strange land. In varying degrees, the same process of self-education is going on in most DP camps in Germany. They learn such practical trades as weaving, dyeing, tailoring, shoe-making, shoe-making, mechanics and carpentering. carpenter-ing. ' While learning, they not only produce articles useful in camp life, but other goods for sale through camp offices. The variety of work displaced persons per-sons could do if given a chance was Illustrated by a recent survey in the United States zone. The survey showed 20,000 office workers, 8,000 construction and maintenance workers, 6,000 doctors, nurses and other health or sanitation sanita-tion experts; 10,000 communications workers, Including radio, railway and telegraph experts; 46,000 trained in "special services" such as barbers, photographers, printers, shoemakers and tailors; 17,000 artists art-ists or professional people, Including Includ-ing engineers, musicians, teachers and writers; 2,000 metal workers, and 22,000 farmers, dairymen or foresters. for-esters. Hope to Move as Family. Officials of the international refugee ref-ugee organization, who are trying to find new homes for these displaced dis-placed people, rate 62 per cent as employable. They say 38 per cent are actually working now in camps, although there is no requirement that they labor. Most unemployables are women or children. Some of these varied DP skills are being utilized in resettlement projects which are slowly reducing camp population by moving the inmates in-mates into new countries as immigrant immi-grant workers. However, too many countries seeking immigrants want principally principal-ly miners and farm workers. Too few countries seem to want the professional pro-fessional people. Refugee officials also point out this danger: So many resettlement projects exclude unemployable dependents de-pendents that when the employables are drained off there is likely to be a large residue of people unable to maintain themselves in any country. coun-try. These leftovers are likely to become be-come perpetual charges under Allied Al-lied care. "Clearly the number of these persons per-sons will be decreased if the international inter-national refugee organization is successful suc-cessful in its efforts to arrange resettlement re-settlement of refugees in family groups," a recent report suggested. |