We expect very shortly to have our training school in operation. We are thoroughly convinced of the advisability of establishing such a school.
August 16, 1918.
(Signed) R. M. Bowen,
Chairman, Board of Directors.
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS
Says Mr. E. G. Allen, the able Director of the Cass Technical Trade School, Detroit: “We have taken high grade machinists in Detroit who have been in the shops for a couple of years and were familiar with the use of drawings, decimal equivalents, etc., and made tool room machine operators doing work of considerable variety, each on a single type machine, almost immediately. In three or four months, by continuing to watch and instruct such a man, he has been able to run almost any machine and do on it almost any work laid out by the toolmaker.”
This war is going to last years. Even three or four months, which seems a long time, will pass like a day. Are some of us not almost grossly careless in not getting at this immediately? Mr. J. J. Pierson, Dilution Officer of the British Ministry of Munitions in the London District, says: “You can make a toolroom operator of a woman in three weeks. If you can’t do it in three weeks, you can’t do it at all. You have simply gotten the wrong woman. Pick out a long fingered, sensitive, intelligent woman from the shop force who has been carefully trained and is especially satisfactory and exact in her production and upgrade her in this way.”
“This office has made an exhaustive study of the vestibule training methods and results of the Section on Industrial Training, of the Council of National Defense, and believes that this general immediate adoption is absolutely essential to meet the increased war program and cannot be too quickly or extensively adopted and should have the immediate and fullest support of all who are charged with production matters. The shortage of skilled labor to-day is alone two hundred and fifty thousand and we are advised will be one million by January 1. This office is putting it into force and effect just as promptly and as actively as we know how.”
August 8, 1918.