War-time kindergarten. Underwood Typewriter Co.
THE NATIONAL CASH REGISTER COMPANY
Dayton, Ohio
The Training School for women, of whom over eight hundred have been placed in the various departments, was started in the latter part of March, 1918.
Because of the demand for trained help in the factory, we have not been able to keep them in the Training School as long as we would wish, but even this short experience has been sufficient to take away the fear of the shop, as many of our women have never had any factory experience before.
While in the Training School the students are paid the regular starting rate for women, and after they enter the factory and become more efficient their rate increases until they can do the work that a man previously did both as regards quality and quantity and they receive a man’s wage.
In some departments it has been found necessary to put slightly more women on the same operations than men formerly employed to obtain the same production, but as the women gain experience, their production increases rapidly and the quality is as good, if not better. The women have proven themselves very apt in picking up the smaller class of assembling on account of their nimble fingers and care in handling stock.
We use our regular production to train the students, and as it must pass 100 per cent. inspection, we emphasize quality and not quantity.
We find the best class of workers comes from those between twenty-one and forty years of age, with, of course, exceptions.
We not only teach the new employees the mechanical operations, but also give them “Health and Safety” lectures, and show them pictures of many ways one can become injured if they do not use precaution while working around machinery. They are also instructed in the use of time and instruction tickets.