INDEPENDENT PNEUMATIC TOOL COMPANY
Aurora, Illinois
Since installing our Vestibule Training School some seven weeks ago, we can gladly say it has proven a success, even beyond our expectations.
To date we have enrolled 109 students; 81 men, 28 women. The women workers have proven that they can in the emergency take the place of practically all our male workers, that is with from five to ten days of intensive training. We have placed women on such machines as Gear Hobbers, Screw Machines, Grinders, Drill Presses and are well satisfied with the result obtained. The percentage of scrap material has been less by the female workers than by the male.
In beginning our course of training each week our Mr. F. B. Hamerly, Works Manager, has made it his duty to tell these workers the vital need of training unskilled men and women so as to replace the boys that are called from our plant, that is, he tries to raise them to the highest pitch of enthusiasm.
(Signed) A. H. Boehm,
Vestibule Training School.
August 16, 1918.
INDEPENDENT PNEUMATIC TOOL COMPANY.
In training on regular production.
Our training school has been running about five weeks with a capacity of 12 students per week. We are indeed surprised at the results we are getting.
Next week we intend to put on a double dose running through 24 students per week. We are trying to start a night shift in one of our important departments and will need about 48 or 50 men. These men are to be recruited entirely from our Vestibule School, where in the past we have been playing in the open market competing for the desired help.
We are satisfied that if the larger corporations and manufacturers were to install a Vestibule system in their factory that within the next six months the severe competition for skilled mechanics would be practically eliminated, and production would be increased considerably.
(Signed) F. B. Harnelly,
Works Manager.