After the women have been transferred to the factory their progress is kept track of for at least one week, to make sure that they are following the instructions given in the training room. Those who do not make good after training are assigned back to the training room for further instruction, or for such disposition as the chief instructor may see fit.
Regularly, during the week, the learners are given general lectures, talks and instructions on matters that relate to their training, that they may be more generally fitted for the line of work into which they are to be transferred.
The results obtained have been very interesting. The women are very enthusiastic and the foremen are highly pleased. In one branch the foreman advised, when asked how things were going: “You can give me thirty more women right away; they are all right,” In another branch a foreman advised that he would not exchange a good share of the women in his department for an equal number of the best men he had on his floor.
The instruction in each training room is given by four male instructors, with women assistants; the women assistants having been selected from the best of those who have been trained within the department. The men instructors are all first class mechanics, especially capable on production work and teaching.
The instructors are regularly interviewed from time to time, and the work they are doing is carefully reviewed, with the purpose of building them up as efficient instructors.
As a part of the training program at New Brunswick an evening school is conducted for the men in the company’s employ. The instruction work given consists of technical studies related to the mechanical trades, and includes blue-print reading, shop drawing, shop mathematics and clerical work in its different branches. This is used in conjunction with a promotion program, whereby men who are capable are promoted into various openings as they occur, requiring more skill of the same sort they already have.
(Signed) James F. Johnson,
Chief Instructor.
Being trained upon an engine lathe to accuracy of one-thousandth.
