b'ROOFING - RISKY FORTEEN - AGERS Says U. S.Department of Labor What Do YouSay? \'Tm gladwhen Ichose the roofing in- with a group of men in the U. S. Depart- McCawleycriticizedtheReportfor dustry as a career chat I didn\'t have a copyment of Labor, who were sincerelydedi usingashazardstatisticsaccidentswhich of "U. S.Bureau of Labor Standards No.caredcothewell-beingofAmerica\'soccur only once in a lifetime, and includ16" onroofingoperations. I\'d havebeenyouth.ing some, such as rhe alleged explosion of scaredstiffandchosensomethingalotBut,hecharged,theproblemwithakettle,whicharoseourofgossipand less exciting than roofing."whichtheywere concerned,doesn\'texist,never actually occurred. This statement somewhat startled thoseasunfortunatelytheroofing industryhasHeadmittedthattherewererisksin present attheU.S.LaborDepartment\'sbeenunabletoattractthissegmentoftheroofingindustrybut insistedthatthe HearinginWashingtononNovemberAmerica\'s teenagers.Report libelledtheindustrybyoverplay28th,on aproposalto ban the employ- He remarkedthat,withthe exceptioning these hazards. mentintheroofingindustryofyoungofCalifornia,theroofingindustry\'sap He challenged rhe assertion of the U. S. people under 18.) prenticeship program hadbeena colossalLaborDepartmentthatanyappreciable In making this statement( under oath,failure,that the small number of appren- numberof minorsunder18werebeing incidentally)JamesMcCawley,Editorofticescompleting theirapprenticeshipwasinjured in roofing employment, and noted theAmericanRoofer,prefaceditwith apitiful and that most of them were in theirthe confession of the Department that "no remarkthatitwasdifficulttotakeissuetwenties.data are available." JANUARY,196241'