Seven years after the Brooklyn Navy Yard was closed, the Yard was reopened through the efforts of Seatrain Shipbuilding Corporation to build oil tankers. A training program for unemployed and unskilled minority group members in the area of the yard was established through JOBS, revitalizing an economically depressed area. (AG)

In a report condensing the findings of a study, "Training and Entry into Union Construction", it is emphasized that the apprenticeship system constitutes the best form of training now used in the building trades. (Author/AG)

Schools use a variety of new approaches to build future construction craftsmen. (Editor)

Summarized are the efforts of the National Ironworkers and Employers Training Program to employ older men who are members of minority groups in the ironworking trade at the journeyman level. (DS)