(Earlier hearings are contained in Parts 10 to 16 of hearings entitled "Problems of Contract Termination," and in Parts 1 to 13 entitled "Mobilization and Demobilization Problems") HEARINGS BEFORE A Congress. SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS, UNITED STATES SENATE SEVENTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON S. 1478, S. 1609, S. 1680, S. 1775, S. 1794, PART 14 'ILIZATION AND DISPOSITION OF SURPLUS WAR PROPERTY AUGUST 14, 1944 534 Printed for the use of the Committee on Military Affairs UNITED STATES WASHINGTON: 1944 HARRY S. TRUMAN, Missouri CHAPMAN REVERCOMB, West Virginia Burgess, D. M., vice president, LeTourneau Co., Peoria, Ill Garvin, Charles P., general manager, Nationa! Stationers Association__ Lamb, Robert K., legislative representative, United Steel Workers 969 Replies to letter on educational uses of surplus war property, which is being addressed by the War Contracts Subcommittee to educational organi- MOBILIZATION AND DEMOBILIZATION PROBLEMS MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1944 UNITED STATES SENATE, WAR CONTRACTS SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE The subcommittee met, pursuant to call, in room 357, Senate Office Building, at 10:30 a. m., Senator James E. Murray (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Murray, Johnson, and Taft. Also present: Bertram M. Gross and Sigmund Timberg. Senator MURRAY. Gentlemen, the hearing will come to order. This is a hearing on problems of surplus war property disposal. The first witness this morning is L. H. Dennis, executive secretary, the American Vocational Association, Inc., Washington, D. C. Is Mr. Dennis here? STATEMENT OF L. H. DENNIS, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY, THE AMERICAN VOCATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC., WASHINGTON, D. C. Senator MURRAY. Mr. Dennis, for the record you may state your name and whom you represent. Mr. DENNIS. L. H. Dennis, executive secretary, the American Vocational Association, Inc. The American Vocational Association is an organization representing the vocational education leadership, directors, supervisors, coordinators, vocational counselors, and vocational teachers, throughout the Nation. The American Vocational Association is an organization of approximately 25,000 of these individuals. By this time it is a pretty well-known fact that the public vocational schools of this country have made a significant wartime contribution through the training of more than 7,000,000 individuals for war production industries and in preinduction training. More than 5,000,000 persons were vocationally trained for war production industries. The vocational war production training program was possible on short notice, in fact almost overnight, on a 24-hour round-the-clock training basis, because these public vocational schools had already been in operation many years training workers in many occupational fields. When the defense, and later the war emergencies, were suddenly thrust upon us a nation, these public vocational schools immediately made their training personnel and equipment available for vocational war production training purposes. Some of the equipment of these public vocational schools has now been in use in this war emergency training program for more than 4 years. Much of it has been in constant use 16 or 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. |