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...Present enrollment: 200,000. Proposed by Sidney Hillman: to add 160,000 to CCC and 300,000 to NYA, train them to run and repair tractors, build roads and bridges...
...where they were to be used was still undetermined. New York City's officials consulted labor leaders and employers in defense industries on how many men were needed, got no clear-cut answer. In Washington, Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman, in charge of labor training, surrounded himself with an array of coordinators, directors, advisers, stock takers. Already abandoned was President Roosevelt's plan to conscript 1,500,000 trainees for industrial defense. There was a sharp dispute over whether a shortage of mechanics existed: A. F. of L. claimed that an incomplete survey in 33 States by the Social...
...present no sons will go to camp under the Burke-Wadsworth Bill. Hearings were postponed as Congress waited for word from Franklin Roosevelt, who approves the motives of M. T. C. A. but is pondering with Laborite Sidney Hillman an independent scheme for the voluntary training of 460,000 youths in technical defense jobs, and from the War Department, whose enthusiasm for compulsory enlistment is matched by a determination not to be swamped by calling up excessive numbers at the start...
Owen D. Young became temporary aide to Defense Advisory Commissioner Sidney Hillman. He will help train technicians through the National Youth Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps...
Besides being a strong Roosevelt man, Mr. Hillman also wants peace in Labor's ranks. Mr. Hillman began to look like an up-&-coming man with a future...