MARYLAND MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION 531

designed to realistically and responsibly meet this challenge through
a comprehensive bond issue.

The State administration shall continue to cooperate fully with
Baltimore City to alleviate pressing problems and to expedite priority
programs. Even more important is to enlist the interest and initiative
of the private sector, which can exercise leadership in areas where
government should not tread.

Certainly, both at the national and State levels, private industry
has demonstrated a recognition of its responsibilities and a willingness
to put its talents to work. In late August, over 1, 200 representatives
of the private sector joined with local government leaders to form
the Urban Coalition and set forth a boldly creative program for our
cities.

The Coalition's first objective was to call upon the Federal govern-
ment to establish an Emergency Work Program. It is to Maryland's
credit that just such a program, the Crash Job Program, had already
been launched. Private industry — in this case, the Westinghouse
Corporation — released a key executive to direct the effort. Maryland's
Chamber of Commerce provided broad based support in finding em-
ployment opportunities. The State appropriated $480, 000 in Emer-
gency Funds for W. P. A. -type and other projects. As a result of this
concerted effort over 2, 100 permanent jobs were made available, 1, 100
by private industry, and better than 1, 200 temporary jobs were filled
within a six-week period.

Success cannot blind us to the fact that the Crash Job Program
originated as a stop-gap reaction to potential crisis. In deference to
its explicit and implicit success, we must re-establish and expand it
on a permanent basis. We must build hope and opportunity through
long-range planning in the winter, lest we reap despair through the
hot and abrasive summer.

Long-range planning for employment opportunities requires far
greater cooperation between State and local governments and in-
dustries. We must learn from you where manpower needs are greatest
and look to you for guidance, equipment and instructors wherever our
present vocational programs are technologically obsolete.

Compensatory education for the inner City child is essential, and
basically it is the responsibility of State and local governments. Vo-
cational training for youth and adult can be most effective if it is a
cooperative effort. Here, as an organization, Maryland's manufacturers
have a clear and powerful mandate to act, to serve your communities
and yourselves.