The training course for administrative and executive positions is designed to cover briefly such shop and office practice as will give the broadest general knowledge that is likely to be required of those in the more important positions in the administrative organization. This class consists of only about a dozen men who are picked with all possible care.
OFFICE SCHOOL
The Office School under competent instructors consists of a group of clerks who do the complete work of making up pay roll, labor distribution cards, etc., for a number of factory shops which were chosen because of their having respective classes of work. Prospective clerks are taken into this school, trained on pay roll work, transferred to the Central Pay Roll Division as help is needed. In addition to this school for pay roll clerks, model shop offices are being established in each of the major departments where correct methods will be carefully taught. It is our aim to have all shop clerks pass through one of these model shop offices to receive their training, as this will insure standard methods and proper following of procedures. These model shop offices will also act as reservoirs on which to draw to supply vacancies caused by absences among the regular shop office staff.
GUN DEPARTMENT ADJUSTER’S SHOP
The shop for training adjusters for the Gun Department is designed to teach men how to adjust the type of machines to which they are to be assigned for all classes of work which may be run upon them. This training should ordinarily take from two to four weeks, but many times it has seemed desirable to graduate candidates more quickly than this; if they are bright and intelligent it has proven satisfactory to do so. No attempt has been made to train operators in the Gun Department except in the shops where they are to work. Most of this work can be learned in a very few days under the instruction of a well trained adjuster.
CARTRIDGE TRAINING SHOP
The Cartridge Training Shop was designed to train adjusters and tool setters, and some operators. Due to the great number of new employees, it has been impossible to have all tool setters and adjusters pass through this school, but it is hoped that in the near future we may be able to train an increasing percentage of them here. Such men as have received this training have shown beyond doubt that they have been much benefited by it, and that it is most desirable to expand it to include as many of this class of workmen as possible. Some operators have been trained in the Cartridge Training School with excellent results, but most of the work is relatively simple and the training has been satisfactorily done in the shop to which the new employees have been assigned.
TOOL DEPARTMENT TRAINING SHOP
A new Tool Department Training Shop is just being started for the purpose of training operators on lathes, milling machines, planers, grinders, etc. At first we tried to train this kind of help in the Apprentice Shop, but because of the fact that the kind of instruction was so vastly different, it has been decided impractical. In the one case, we wish to give very complete, broad instructions, and in the other, the desire is to train for one kind of work only in the least possible time.