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BRADLEY CHARGES ABUSES IN VETERAN TRAINING PROGRAM Milwaukee.—Stem warning that a national scandal "involving mil lions of dollars in Federal fund*" impend* was sounded by Gen. Omar N. Bradley, Veterans Administrat or, in a blunt discussion of the vet erans’ on-the-job training program. Addressing the United Spanish War Veterans at their annual en campment here, the General gave official confirmation to formal charges of the American Federa tion of Labor of widespread abuses in the program. His observations gave new strength to the AFL con. tentiotj that the veterans enrolling in this program are best protected under union apprenticeship. Bradley pledged that he would I recommend to Congress changes in , the law to tighten controls, if they i are needed, and called upon State and Federal agencies to halt un scrupulous practices which have been reported. Declaring that even without the formal reports of “irregularities,” it is “evident that something is wrong,” he said: • “From the outset, unscrupulous persons lost no time in taking ad vantage of veterans’ training on the job,” Bradley told membra* of the United Spanish War Veterans at their 48th national encampment here. “The dishonest employer and the unthinking veteran have al ready infected the program in GREETINGS TO LABOR FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION KENNEDY’S Pit Cooked Barbecue AND HOME MADE BRUNSWICK STEW SLAW AND CORNBREAD WEST MARKET EXTENSION Greensboro, N. C. LABORS PATRONAGE APPRECIATED 6REETM6S TO LABOR FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION And for the Promotion of Better Labor-Management Relations. .1 MADE-RITE SANDWICH CO. —WHOLESALE 715 BATTLEGROUND AVE. 6 Greensboro, N. C. PHONE 2-0549 many states.” Both employers and veterans were resorting to “trick practices," he said. Something is wrong, he contin ued, when it takes 3 years to learn to he a stock clerk in one State and 3 months in another and when training establishments lower the beginning wage of its trainees by an amount equal to their subsis tence allowance. This is a result, he said, of re sponsibility being split among State and Federal governments un der the education provisions of the GI Bill of Rights. Citing various unscrupulous prac tices, he said one garage owner in a southern town lowered the wage of a mechanic from $35 to $23 as soon as the veteran applied for training to become a foreman. The employer said the subsis tence allowance vfould more than make up the difference. Both the advertising and sales managers in a large Western de partment store applied for job training, he said. One of them, the son of the store president, was drawing $700 monthly and training for his father’s job. The other, drawing $600 monthly, was train ing for the vice presidency. “These trick practices stand in danger of besmirching a program that can offer honest and useful training to thousands 0f veterans who need it,” Bradley said. Under the GI Bill, State boards certify establishments as qualified to give on-the-job training and supervise the training. The VA grants approval, reviews the course submitted and pays subsistence al lowances at the rate of $65 a month to single veterans and $90 to those with dependents. ORNBl'RN TO BROADCAST Washington, D. C.—I. B. Orn bum, secretary-treasurer of the AFL Union Label Trades Depart ment, will broadcast over a na tional hookup Saturday, August 10, at 2:30 P. M. (EST). THE MARCH OF LABOR th* recent stampoho SENERAL STRIKE A STRIKER picketed btaibplane. I ^ army srAFF- KAD1’MtS w 8*1 about LABOR'S contributon fePCODuCTiON : * The RECORD IN THE GREATEST PRoOlC-^ t.on race IN history represents a tremendous ACHIEVEMENT . TOu have made POSSIBLE the OVER WHELMING SUPERIORITY IN SUPPLIES ANO EQUIPMENT ^orJ^BLE° OURARM>r and those op our allies TO WREST THE INITIATIVE FRDm THE rNJ.MV ,N EVERY theater OF VVAR.* ■SwTWER PtlER RinER OR LOCAL 2657 OF THE ONiTEO TEXTILE MAS NAMED AS BEnE EiCiARv in HIS LIFE INSURANCE policy mis UNION — LOCAL 2657. IME \ sH oats — INSIST ONTHS MAT UNION LAOEt IN THE NE>tT MAT tbu SUV. rU. S. LIVING COST INCREASES BY 5 1-2 PER CENT FROM JUNE 15 TO JULY 15, BLS FINDS Washington, D. C.—Costs of liv ing in the United States rose an average of 5.5 per cent in the June 15-to-Jdly 15 period, it was re vealed in a report by the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Sta tistics. | This is the largest monthly jump since the BLS began compiling fig ures on a 30-day basis in 1940 and is believed by some experts to be the largest monthly rise since the bureau began collecting data in 1913. OPA controls were not in effect, nor were subsidies operative, at the time the survey was made on July 15, economists pointed out signifi cantly. Final reports on July 15 food prices will be availabel within a week, and full figures on all oth er items in the consumer price indexes, except rents, which were not surveyed in July, will be re vealed late in the month. Living esesentials that were Greetings To Labor For a Successful Convention For The Promotion of Better Labor-Management Relations Welcome To Durham GEORGE W KANE General Contractor Roxboro, N. C. - Greensboro, N. C. Durham, N. C. MM ^ ^ . . measured to arrive at the BLS's figures included: Food, clothing, house furnishings, fuel, miscellan eous goods and services, recreation. , personal service, such as beauty shops, tranportation and medical ! care. The consumers' price study was made on the basis of reports from cities 'which constitute about three i fourths of the consumer price in dexes. Prices of food registered the I largest advance, 13 per cent; living i essentials, other than food, rose i less than 1 per cent. The June 15-July 15 rise in the living costs put the consumers’ price index at about HO per cent of the 1035-1939 average. The in I dex rose about 9 per cent from V-J Day and 8 per cent from Jan. 15 to July 15, 1946. The rise in food prices of 13 pew cent in the one-month period was due principally to increases of about 30 per cent in the cost of, meat, and 20 per cent in dairy i products. These increases, it was j indicated, reflected some of the rise that might have taken place between April and June, when meat, dairy products and fats and oils were so scarce that the BLS was unable to obtain price quota tions in a number of cities. According to a special survey of 16 foodstuffs in 12 cities, con ducted by the bureau, the prices of such items declined slightly in the last week in JiJy. Tabulations thsjt are complete GREETINGS TO LABOR . FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION Welcome To Durham DURHAM LUMBER CO., INC~ Manufacturers and Dealers in SASH — DOORS — M1LLWORK — ROOFING AND HARDWARE Beaver Bunrd. Store and Office Fixtures 1700 \ale Street Telephone L-9570 DURHAM, N. C. ; Greetings To Labor Welcome To Durham ROYAL ICE CREAM CO. “A ROYAL DELIGHT IN' EVERY BITE” 1000 Roxboro Street Durham. N. C GREETINGS TO LIBOR FOR A SUCCESSFUL CONVENTION J. D. WILKINS CO. Ornamental Iron 1200 WEST LEE Greensboro, N. C. GREETINGS TO LABOR FOR A SUCCESSFUL UONVINIION And for the Promotion of Better Labor-Management Relations DOUBLE-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY Winston-Salem. N. C show those increases in several urban consumer price indexes: Birmingham, 5 per cent; Boston 7,6; Chicago 7.7; Cincinnati 6.9; ... "• Detroit 5.6; Houston 4.2; Los An geles 4.3; Philadelphia 5.6; Pitts burgh 6.9; San F'rancisco 4.4; ami Washington 4.9. 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