Low training costs due to location on project site during latter part of training period. $1,440 900 $2,340 300 100 120 120 $ 640 $2,980 Related support by existing agencies could reduce some costs. $2,345 900 $3,245 440 100 120 0 120 $ 780 $4,025 Longer training period due to need for language instruction. If corpsmen move with the migrants, travel costs will raise this estimate. UNION COUNTY AFL-CIO COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMITTEE, Hon. HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, Jr., MY DEAR SENATOR WILLIAMS: The Union County AFL-CIO Council at their regular monthly meeting June 24, 1963, passed a resolution unanimously endorsing and supporting the creation of a Domestic Peace Corps. A copy of the resolution is enclosed for your information. This resolution was recommended to the council for adoption by our community services committee. We hope that when legislation reaches your desk you will be able to take a position in support of this vitally needed legislation. Our community services committee endeavors to solve the out-of-plant problems of our members and all citizens in the health, recreation, welfare, and character building field. We are well aware of the problems many of our citizens have in our supposed affluent society. There is still too many people in New Jersey, and specifically Union County, who live on the fringes of poverty. A Domestic Peace Corps could help develop programs to help these unfortunate people to become contributors to society instead of recipients of welfare. I want to thank you for any consideration you can give our request for support of this needed legislation. Sincerely and fraternally yours, FRANCIS J. CONWAY, AFL-CIO, CSAC, Labor Staff Representative. RESOLUTION ON CREATION OF A DOMESTIC PEACE CORPS Whereas every sixth citizen in the United States lives on submarginal income in a land of plenty and lacks either the skill, the reading ability, or motivation to make a better life for himself. ་ Whereas half of this group are children or just beyond childhood; 30 percent of young workers entering the labor force won't have completed high school; 25 percent of those in 12th grade have a lower reading ability than the average 9th-grade student. In 1960 32 percent of the young people in our country between the ages of 16 and 24 were not in school had not completed high school. Whereas mental retardation is higher in low-income groups, education limited, and maternal care frequently inadequate. Whereas 225.000 children live in families of migratory workers and move about the country with their families; about 75,000 work in the fields with their parents. Whereas 165,000 Cubans fled to the United States-there are 15 to 20 percent of them under 20 years of age; 13,000 are unaccompanied children. Whereas 57 percent of the Indian and Alaskan native population is under 20 years of age, these children live in environments where sanitation is inadequate and malnutrition common. Per capita income among Indians is very low. Whereas a 1958 survey indicated about 4 million children of mothers working full time were expected to fend for themselves; there are only licensed day care facilities to serve only 185,000 children. What happens to the other 215,000 children? Whereas 25 percent of children in families with income below taxable limits have no father in the home. Whereas a study group formed by President Kennedy made a report to the President in January of 1963 recommending the formation of a Domestic Peace Corps. Whereas legislation has been introduced in the National Senate and Congress calling for the funds and manpower necessary to put a Domestic Peace Corps into the field to help our many underprivileged citizens. Whereas AFL-CIO President George Meany and the AFL-CIO Executive Council have endorsed the idea of a Domestic Peace Corps that can give heart to the poor, the illiterate, the sick, the migrant farmworker, the Indian, the very old, and the disturbed young. It can also encourage State and local community action on their behalf and stimulate volunteer services of our citizens: Therefore, be it Resolved, That the Union County AFL-CIO Council approve and endorse the establishing of a Domestic Peace Corps to help these people with problems who are our fellow citizens; be it further Resolved, That the Union County AFL-CIO Council communicate with Senators Harrison Williams and Clifford Case and Congresswoman Florence Dwyer and a copy of this resolution be forwarded to them; that we appeal to them for their support of legislation that will establish a Domestic Peace Corps. Mr. STUART SYMINGTON, Senate Office Building, Washington, D.C. UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, MISSOURI STUDENTS ASSOCIATION, Columbia, Mo., May 16, 1963. DEAR SIR: The Missouri Students Association Senate on May 6 and May 13 reviewed the national service program which is currently under congressional consideration and unanimously voted to support the establishment of this program. We would like to strongly urge you to and support this program in Congress. It is our feeling that it is indeed tragic that, in a nation as affluent and as great as ours, there exists people and regions of marked poverty. Further, we believe that this program is a constructive effort to remove this blemish from our national character and more importantly make a great contribution in terms of human welfare. Sincerely, THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TRAINING SCHOOLS Hon. HARRISON A. WILLIAMS Jr., CHARLES ELDER, President. AND JUVENILE AGENCIES, Chairman, Subcommittee on the National Service Corps, SIB: As there has been no formal action taken to endorse or support the Nation Service Corps bill, S. 1321, by the National Association of Training Schools and Juvenile Agencies, I cannot rightfully speak for the total membership of this organization on this matter. Nevertheless I have discussed the subject with a number of training school administrators throughout the country and their response was unanimous in the belief that such a program is both feasible and desirable. Many correctional institutions for delinquent children are already using volunteers of all ages in various activities such as recreation, craftwork, hobbies, music, art, academic instruction, and religious training. A National Service Corps should further stimulate the use of this valuable resource. Those of us who work with delinquent children are anxious to support any desirable plan which will help to create an interest in this type of work. I believe that a National Service Corps would be most helpful in this respect. The constructive use of volunteers should be of great value to those institutions which are understaffed due to financial limitations. The inability to employ an adequate staff in terms of both quantity and quality is not an uncommon complaint in our field of endeavor. Encouragement and guidance in the use of volunteers certainly offer promise of assistance with this problem. I regret that I cannot present a more formal endorsement at this time. WINDELL W. FEWELL, SENIOR CITIZENS OF AMERICA, DEAR SENATOR WILLIAMS: Your communication of June 18 addressed to Dr. Joy Elmer Morgan in relation to National Service Corps bill S. 1321 has been received. Since Dr. Morgan is out of the city until July 18 I believe he would want me to advise you that he endorses the establishment of a National Service Corps, and if he were here I think he would send you a favorable statement in regard to the bill you mention. I am sorry it is not possible to reach him in time to answer your letter personally by June 25. Cordially yours, ! MARIE S. FRY. |