Metallurgy and metallography, elements of. Metallurgy of steel (Ins.). METALLURGICAL TECHNIQUES FOR WOMEN. Military map making. Naval ordnance inspection (Ins.). ORDNANCE INSPECTION (Ins.). Organic chemistry (Ins.). Personnel selection and training (Ins.). PLANT PROTECTION ENGINEERING (Ins.). Plastics. Powder metallurgy. Power systems engineering. Production inspection. Production methods. Production problems, advanced. Radio, introduction to. Radio mathematics I, II. Radio measurements (two courses). RADIO MEASUREMENTS AND ELECTRONICS (Ins.). Radio practice, modern. SAFETY ENGINEERING FOR THE SERVICES OF SUPPLY (Ins.). In the above list, CAPITALS indicate FULL-TIME courses; lower case, parttime. Subjects marked with an asterisk (*) are available in more than one city. Dean POTTER. We felt that this was something which would answer your questions, and that the information would be of value to the committee. Mr. ENGEL. Who is conducting these courses at Rock Island? Dean CASE. In foremanship the vocational division gives some training because the work is of that kind. E. S. M. W. T. does not give work for foremen except where it is of management or supervisory nature; that is, above the work which the foreman does as a shop leader of his men. We have done work at Rock Island both through the State University of Iowa and the University of Illinois. TRAINING FOR WOMEN Dean POTTER. This folder also indicates the kind of jobs taken by trainees, particularly in connection with women. Exhibit 5 has some very interesting information with reference to the training for women. Mr. ENGEL. I am very much interested in that work. Dean POTTER. We train them as draftsmen, for inspectors of ord nance, inspectors of explosives, inspectors of chemicals. TRAINING AT NEGRO INSTITUTION Also, you will find the information in exhibit No. 6 very interesting. This is a report on the Negro institutions. We have brought into the program a large number of Negro insti tutions, We have practically every Negro school of college grade which gives courses in engineering and chemistry. Dean CASE. We have set up a program for the training of Negroes and even in the South and southeastern part of the country the white institutions have been cooperating fully with the Negro institutions. Mr. HARE. What sort of training? Dean CASE. Draftsmen, with a little work in personnel and administration as it applies to industry. These college-trained Negroes make very good foremen and superintendents where a good many Negroes are employed. The Ordnance Department has started to use Negro girls in an arsenal down in Alabama. They are planning to employ about 800 Negro women. We are starting to train about 50 Negro girls. Mr. TARVER. What sort of work do they employ them in? Dean CASE. In chemical warfare-in the manufacture of smoke screen materials to use Mr. TARVER. You do not have to give them a college course to do that. Dean CASE. Those girls are college girls. They will be put in plants and work as regular workers for a while. Then when the plants expand their operations and get in a large number of these girls, these girls trained in E. S. M. W. T. courses will be made forewomen. Mr. TARVER. I want to understand you. You put these Negro girls in colleges and teach them? Teach them what? Dean CASE. Teach them personnel administration—that is, leadership of the group. There will be psychology in dealing with people; how a group is organized and how to guide and instruct workers; there will be discussions with them of the difficulties the workers will have when they start working in the plants so that the girls trained in our courses can be of help to the workers in the work they will have to do and will have a better understanding of their problems. There will be reactions to conditions. Some accidents may happen in the plant and these girls will be trained so that they will not become too panicky. Also they will be taught to do their work so as to follow safety procedures. There will be other things of that kind. That is about the same as the college grade course in personnel administration. Mr. TARVER. How many college trainees are there out of the 600,000? Dean POTTER. Six thousand one hundred twenty-one last February. Up to date we have a little more than 10,000 Negro trainees; 10,500 would be a fair figure. Dean CASE. On the problem of training the Negroes, not very many of them have the preparation for college grade courses. Few of them have that preparation. Industry is beginning to employ them and they seem to be working out quite satisfactorily. Dean POTTER. Another factor in connection with the Negroes is: most of these Negro institutions are subcontractors. Texas has a Prairie View College, which does not have a contract with the Office of Education. The Office of Education has a contract arrangement with the Texas A. & M. College, and Texas A. & M. arranges to have a certain number of boys trained at Prairie View for certain types of service in which they can be used after they receive the training. Mr. HARE. I am interested in your statement about these Negroes. You say they make excellent foremen. This is news to me. In my section of the country it is a very hard matter to get a half dozen, dozen, or two dozen Negroes to work under a colored foreman. They do not like it. We never can succeed with having colored foremen to manage them. Dean POTTER. I suppose there are different conditions and there are differences in the times. Those who take this training have fairly good educations. They probably have a little more dignity than the man who works in the ranks, who might be used as a foreman. Dr. STUDEBAKER. A very small percentage of the Negroes are being trained for foremen, what are the others trained for? Dean CASE. They are being trained as draftsmen for construction work, for chemical analysts and work of that nature. Not very advanced. Dean POTTER. We used quite a few Negroes for the inspection of explosives. It requires elementary knowledge of chemistry. We can give them a course of 12 to 16 weeks. Mr. HARE. You might include that when you revise the record. Dean POTTER. Yes. There follows our standard outline for this course given in about 40 institutions including Howard University: CHEMISTRY OF POWDER AND EXPLOSIVES AN INTENSE COURSE OFFERED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE UNITED STATES OFFICE OF EDUCATION PART OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM Purpose of course.-To provide training in the chemistry of explosives for persons planning to work in explosives and loading plants as (1) inspectors for the Ordnance Department and (2) operators for the manufacturers having contracts in this field. This course is composed of two parts: (A) Fundamental chemistry which will serve as preparation for (B) the chemistry of powder and explosives. PART A Qualifications for admission-Two years of chemistry of college grade. Length of part A.-One hundred and forty-four class and laboratory hours. Part A may be completed in 4 weeks full time or, as a part-time course, it may require as long as 12 weeks to complete. Plan of part A.-Part A of the course should be composed of demonstration lectures, recitation, and laboratory periods and required outside preparation. It should include, among other things, adequate accounts of: (1) Halogens. (2) Salt formation. (3) Electrolytes. (4) Sulfur and sulfuric acid. (5) Nitrogen; fixation ammonia and nitric acid. (6) Hydrocarbons: paraffins, olefines, aromatics, the petroleum industry, cracking, utilization of byproducts, etc. (7) Alcohols and phenols, ethers, aldehydes. (8) Acids, esters, including nitric esters, ketones. (9) Nitrocompounds both aliphatic and aromatic and byproducts derived from them. Arrangement of subjects and the amount and use of time devoted to each should be determined by the instructor to meet the needs of students from the point of view of their preparation at the time they enroll. PART B Qualifications for admission.-Completion of part A or 3 years of chemistry of college grade, including 1 year of organic chemistry. Part B, therefore, may be given to qualified students who have not taken part A. Length of part B.-One hundred and forty-four hours. Part B may be completed in 4 weeks full time or, as a part-time course, it may require as long as 12 weeks to complete. This part of the course may be a part-time evening course for chemists employed during the day. Plan of part B.-Part B of the course, set up in the manner proposed for part A, will be devoted to the chemistry of powder and explosives. The discussions should deal with the classification, chemical properties, manufacture, analysis, testing and use of the following materials and their raw material supply. Arrangement of subjects and the amount and use of time devoted to each may be changed to meet local conditions and the desire of the instructor. The course may be given to persons regularly employed. As a suggestion, each part may be scheduled for three 4-hour sessions a week, two evenings and Saturday afternoon. As a part-time course the length should be 24 weeks instead of 8 weeks, as suggested above. Federal civil service.-The completion of this course will be accepted in lieu of 1 year of organic chemistry or 1 year of experience in fulfilling requirements in examinations given by the Civil Service Commission for positions in the field of explosives. Announcements of these examinations can be obtained from the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C. EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF OUT-OF-SCHOOL RURAL PERSONS AS DEFENSE WORKERS Mr. HARE. The next item is education and training of out-of-school rural persons as defense workers. Pages 103 and 105 to 109 of the justifications will be inserted in the record at this point. (The justifications referred to are as follows:) Education and training, defense workers, Office of Education (national defense) TABLE 1.-National enrollment summary as of Feb. 28, 1943-distribution of enrollments by types of courses for out-of-school rural and nonrural persons 1 Enrollment during the month included reenrollment of persons previously classed as having concluded training. Less than 0.05 percent. TABLE 2.-Cumulative total enrollment by State and type of course from Dec. 1, 1940, through Feb. 28, 1943-courses for out-of-school rural and nonrural persons |