In an effort to help alleviate the unemployment situation of Pittsburgh and hoping that its experiment will result in shops similar to the “Werkbunds” of Austria and Germany in training men to work with their hands, the Pittsburgh organization of the National Council of Jewish Women has opened a Handcraft Guild in Oakland in cooperation with the Federation of Pittsburgh Jewish Philanthropies.
Professionals will teach the men how to re-upholster, refinish, and renovate, and payment will be made on an hour or piece work basis. As work progresses it is planned to add china mending, cane work, and painting to the curriculum. The idea is being carried out successfully in Chicago at the present time. Mrs. Edgar J. Kaufmann is manager of the shop, with a group of seventeen women assisting.
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