MUELLER METALS COMPANY
Port Huron, Mich.
I am pleased to advise you that we have been using many unskilled workers, also women, at both our Sarnia, Ontario, and Port Huron, Michigan, and Decatur, Illinois, plants and find that women are able to do the light operations on turret lathes quite satisfactorily.
Our greatest difficulty is in our Toolmaking Department, but we have lately installed the following plan.
We are selecting a good lathe hand from among our toolmakers and giving him from one to three students, paying him from 20 per cent. to 30 per cent., depending on the number of students he is able to take care of successfully, and we then pay these students about 50 per cent. of what the instructor receives with stipulated raises in pay until they have served two years, at the end of which time we pay them a very liberal bonus.
We have been able to secure some young men just out of High School who are going to make good workmen, but as the new draft will possibly take some of these boys we are now figuring on using women on this work and believe that they will be able to carry it on quite successfully.
(Signed) C. G. Heiby,
Vice-President and General Superintendent.