MACHINISTS’ CLASS, NORTON COMPANIES, AT WORCESTER TRADE SCHOOL, SUMMER OF 1918.
MACHINISTS’ CLASS, NORTON COMPANIES, AT WORCESTER TRADE SCHOOL, SUMMER OF 1918.
Taking an eight-weeks’ course of intensive training fitting them to take places in a general machine shop. This course carries them much farther than machine operators.
FEMALE EMPLOYEES AT NORTON COMPANY, WORCESTER, MASS., JULY, 1918, IN KHAKI UNIFORM.
Grinding on Brown & Sharpe universal machine; 5 weeks in school; previous experience, designer in corset shop (Norton).
Operating Warner & Swasey turret lathe; no previous experience in machine shop; 8 weeks in school and now earns 45 cents per hour p. w. (Norton).