We have two men, with only one arm each! (after proper training) doing more work than the average two men.
The company has created a new department for the production of Liberty Motor Aeroplane Carburetors, and the work of this department includes a great variety of machines. It writes:
In order to furnish employees for this work with at least partial training, we are recruiting them from other departments in the shop doing similar work; in each of these other departments we have a section set aside which includes type machinery, and new employees are put at this work under careful supervision and training to develop them and thoroughly determine their value before being advanced on to aeroplane work.
(Signed) G. B. Duffield,
Superintendent.
INDEPENDENT PNEUMATIC TOOL COMPANY
Aurora, Illinois
Since installing our Vestibule Training School some seven weeks ago, we can gladly say it has proven a success, even beyond our expectations.
To date we have enrolled 109 students; 81 men, 28 women. The women workers have proven that they can in the emergency take the place of practically all our male workers, that is with from five to ten days of intensive training. We have placed women on such machines as Gear Hobbers, Screw Machines, Grinders, Drill Presses and are well satisfied with the result obtained. The percentage of scrap material has been less by the female workers than by the male.
In beginning our course of training each week our Mr. F. B. Hamerly, Works Manager, has made it his duty to tell these workers the vital need of training unskilled men and women so as to replace the boys that are called from our plant, that is, he tries to raise them to the highest pitch of enthusiasm.
(Signed) A. H. Boehm,
Vestibule Training School.