A survey of its trade and technical school activities in Russia, Poland, Roumania and Lithuania, has just been completed by the Ort, the American branch announces.
During the year 1926, the period of the survey, over 6,000 children and adults were taught twenty-four trades, with those of ladies’ tailoring, locksmiths and mechanics, and carpenters and joiners leading in popularity among the pupils. Courses last from three months to one year. Listed among the industrial endeavors of the Society is an orphan apprentice system, directed by visiting patrons who see to the literacy needs of the children, and enforce proper treatment at the hands of artisans to whom the orphans are apprenticed.
Following is a tabulation of the trade classes and the number in attendance : Ladies’ Tailors, 1,61 ; Locksmiths and Mechanics, 1,291 ; Carpenters and Joiners, 473 ; Seamstresses, 380 ; Men Tailors, 351 ; Knitters, 266 ; Milliners, 206 ; Office Clerks, 196 ; Bootmakers, 145 ; Electro-Technicians, 140 ; Draughtsmen, 137 ; Weavers, 116 ; Automobile Mechanics, 47 ; Watchmakers, 47 ; Opticians, 47 ; Molders, 42 ; Iron-workers, 42 ; Furriers, 34 ; Metal Polishers, 28 ; Bee Masters (Honey), 26 ; Technical Professions, 24 ; Jewelers, 22 ; Photographers, 14 ; Painters, 14 ; Lithographers, 13 ; Compositors, 13 ; Upholsterers, 12 ; Hairdressers, 12 ; Orphan apprentices, 504.
During the year three thousand children were taught trades in the professional schools while the classes for adults accommodated slightly over twenty-five hundred.
The report is released by the American branch in connection with its efforts to establish a permanent body in America. It points out that it will be necessary to substantially increase the number of schools and provide facilities for many additional thousands of pupils, in order to cope with the need for technical training and trade education. This work is, according to the statement of the Ort, permanent in its nature and only a permanent organization can properly deal with it. The schools maintained are in Poland, Russia, Roumania, Lithuania and Latvia.
The number of applicants is greater than can be provided for with the facilities available.
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