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...industry, the rise in unemployment to new highs last week underlined a startling paradox: all around the nation, even in such critical jobless areas as Detroit, jobs are going begging for lack of skilled workers to fill them. Industry is hard put to find enough trained craftsmen, but the problem is getting worse. For every 100 skilled workers that the nation had in 1955, it will need 122 in 1965 and 145 in 1975. Yet the nation's spotty training programs are not even turning out enough new craftsmen to replace those who retire. Automation and such new industries...
Under Maurice's leadership, the Carpenters continued to thrive. Membership grew to 850,000, and the members boasted that theirs was the largest craftsmen's union in the world. Maurice, as quiet and dutiful as his father was bombastic and domineering, rarely had anything to say. In the executive council of the A.F.L.C.I.O., where Maurice still ranks as a national vice president, he often sat through four-hour sessions without opening his mouth, soon became known as "Maurice the Silent." In the subsidized biography of Big Bill Hutcheson (for which the union, if not its rank-and-file...
Died. Salvatore Ferragamo, 62, style-setting Italian shoemaker for women and the originator of the wedge heel, platform sole and nylon "invisible shoe," an apprentice cobbler at the age of 9, who eventually came to employ 600 craftsmen in three factories (including a $175,000, 13th century palace in Florence) hand-producing 60,000 pairs of shoes annually for a well-heeled clientele including Queen Elizabeth II and Greta Garbo; of a heart attack; in Fiumetto, Italy...
...SKILLED man is often hard to find these days. The shortage is worldwide, and the reason is not the decline of craftsmen but the increased need in every country for more of them. The scramble for workers is having some odd effects on labor relations, work habits, and even on national prejudices...
...Samuel Gompers (1850-1924), a British-born Jew of Dutch parentage, was a founding father of the U.S. labor movement and first president of the A.F.L. His window, at the rear of the south nave over the tomb of Woodrow Wilson, is dedicated to artisans and craftsmen. Among the eight scenes are Noah building the Ark, the building of King Solomon's temple and the building of Washington Cathedral...