3. Arrange for the training of present mechanics and others in existing workrooms in connection with regular production, and by more scientific procedure than heretofore.
4. As of particular importance, act as a clearing house, that the judgment and experience, good and bad, in each locality may be available to all.
The section on industrial training, a part of the welfare division of the committee on labor, is composed of one-third representatives of labor, one-third employers and one-third experts in factory training. State committees similarly organized have been developed where war products are being made. There are at present nine associate branch committees of the section on industrial training, which are Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New England, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
KEEPING CHECK ON TRAINING
The section recommends three checks on the factory training department, to be made daily by report:
1. How many operatives are sent into the factory? (If this were the only test they might be sent in too fast and only partly trained.)
2. Cost, net, after crediting production which should equal the shop average.
3. Wastage.—There should be none. There should be 100 per cent. Government inspection.
These training departments, because of the thorough training given, have yielded from 10 to 40 per cent. increase in production, both for men and women, and the labor turnover has been reduced materially thereby.
Great care has been taken to advocate that unemployed men be adapted and trained in new trades for the period of the war and that unskilled men be educated wherever possible before resorting to the employment of women.