Masonry Magazine August 1969 Page. 25
Appoint Harrison
Harrison joins Grace after serving as Construction Products Consultant for Arthur D. Little, Inc. of Cambridge. Prior to that he was Director of Marketing for the Plastics Division of American Cyanamid Co., Wallingford, Conn. and served six years as Marketing Manager of that company's Building Products Division in Wakefield.
The Construction Products Division of W. R. Grace & Co., combines the several product lines of construction materials in which Grace has maintained a continuing diversification program and becomes one of the world's largest suppliers of special-purpose products for the construction and maintenance industry.
Apprentice Facts
istrants would have no effect on the immediate need for skilled workers. "Most apprentices work four-year terms to gain necessary skills. Thus, the bulk of completions this year represent mostly those who began four years ago," Shultz said, "and we only had 68,500 new starts in 1965."
Shultz expressed optimism with current figures which indicated a cancellation rate of 38 percent, "a heartening note when you consider that it is usually about 50 percent most of the time," he said.
The 238,000 apprentices in programs registered January 1, 1969 with the U. S. Department of Labor or with State apprenticeship agencies was a record-breaking number also. It was the largest number of apprentices in registered programs since records were kept, beginning in 1941.
Minorities represented 7 percent of the total number in registered programs, slightly more than half of them Negroes.
While noting this new high, Schultz said that it was up to management and labor "to come up with some new answers if apprenticeship is to remain the vehicle for creation of new skilled workers."
"It has become obvious that we cannot expect that apprenticeship in its present form will continue if it is not meeting the needs of industry. Since it is industry's child, it must be industry's concern and responsibility to reshape it."
The Department of Labor sets minimum quality standards for apprenticeship and registers those programs that meet the standards.
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