Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1912 . onsideration: For many years your different ap-prenticeship committees have year afteryear brought before the different con- ventions valuable reports and recom-mendations, only to have same tabledor lost sight of. Your committee wishto question the members as follows: What are the sanitary engineers andheating engineers doing at the presanttime to perpetuate our calling? How many of us are training our boysin the art? What is the practice of the majorityof masters in the trade towards supplying artisans for the future? What are we doin
Mechanical Contracting & Plumbing January-December 1912 . onsideration: For many years your different ap-prenticeship committees have year afteryear brought before the different con- ventions valuable reports and recom-mendations, only to have same tabledor lost sight of. Your committee wishto question the members as follows: What are the sanitary engineers andheating engineers doing at the presanttime to perpetuate our calling? How many of us are training our boysin the art? What is the practice of the majorityof masters in the trade towards supplying artisans for the future? What are we doing and what must wedo to make our boys interested and will-ing to serve apprenticeship and continuein our footsteps? Our present system of apprenticeshipis a complete failure and some drasticmeasure must be introduced by thisCanadian association of a uniform ap-prenticeship for the future of our call-ing, as this question is too great a prob-lem to be undertaken by individuals. Wein the East for years carried out a sortof rule of thumb system, and a very. R. M. Yeomans, who responded to ad-dress of welcome. good class of mechanics were educated,but of late years it has been found im-possible to get boys to undertake theserving of five years of apprenticeshipunless they got wages at the start oftheir term, such as many of us receivedat the end of our time. Another evil has been introduced inour shops, that is improvers. This hasbeen caused by those who do not haveany apprentices in their employ and whoentice away from other employers, boyswho have become useful and able tohandle the tools in their third year, mak-ing an inducement of an increase totheir apprenticeship wage to changetheir employer. This improver apprenticeshould be entirely wiped out, and onlyjourneymen and apprentices recognized. If we intend to keep up with the won-derful growth of our country and keepup the standard of our mechanics, we 18 must at once inaugurate a universal sys-tem or the trade of sanitary plu
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