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AMERICAN SHIPYARD APPRENTICESHIPS, 

 Apprentice. 



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Promotion. — Promotion is based on the rating from the monthly reports from the vari- 

 ous shops and for school work. In some cases the shop work counts double that in the 

 school. 



School Work. — There is no uniform practice in regard to school work for apprentice 

 boys in the various yards, although certain requirements in schooling are made by many of 

 the yards. 



One yard states that apprentices may be required to take courses of instruction recom- 

 mended or provided by the company and their rating in such studies and progress in work will 

 be used as a guide for promotion. 



Another company expects apprentices to attend evening school unless their previous edu- 

 cation renders this unnecessary. Here the apprentice committee cooperates with the city 

 educational authorities in outlining the course of study to assist the apprentice to imderstand 

 the fundamentals of the trade to which he is apprenticed. Some of the yards make use of 

 the night schools entirely, sometimes with indifferent success. 



In one yard a school is established having six daily sessions per week, during the regular 

 working hours beginning the second Monday in September and ending the last Saturday in 



