August 16, 1918.
INDEPENDENT PNEUMATIC TOOL COMPANY.
In training on regular production.
Our training school has been running about five weeks with a capacity of 12 students per week. We are indeed surprised at the results we are getting.
Next week we intend to put on a double dose running through 24 students per week. We are trying to start a night shift in one of our important departments and will need about 48 or 50 men. These men are to be recruited entirely from our Vestibule School, where in the past we have been playing in the open market competing for the desired help.
We are satisfied that if the larger corporations and manufacturers were to install a Vestibule system in their factory that within the next six months the severe competition for skilled mechanics would be practically eliminated, and production would be increased considerably.
(Signed) F. B. Harnelly,
Works Manager.
ROYAL TYPEWRITER CO.
Hartford, Conn.