Part 15

August 16, 1918.

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.

REPORT OF TRAINING SCHOOL FOR JULY, 1918

Total entries since July 1 100 Total number of operations taught 18 Total number of permanent instructors 6 Instructors from other departments 5 Total number transferred to other departments 73 Total number left factory from school 13 Total number in school August 1, 1918 14

NAMES OF OPERATIONS TAUGHT IN TRAINING SCHOOL

Milling Heavy Power Press Copper Bar Grinding Brackets to Base Assembly Linking First Carriage Building Assembly Inspection of Base Assembly Drilling Light Power Press Small Parts to Base Assembly Shift Arms and Bottom Rails to Base Fitting Keycard Assembly Second Carriage Building Assembly Riveting (machine) Retapping Type Soldering

GENERAL

All students but three are women, ranging from fifteen to fifty-seven years of age.

Intensified training, speed and accuracy, physical and mental condition of employees, proper mental attitude to company.

A matron has been appointed who comes in contact with the women and is responsible for their deportment and personal needs.

(Signed) CHAS. B. COOK, Vice-President.

CINCINNATI MILLING MACHINE CO.

Cincinnati, Ohio

We put the new employee into a department and assign him or her to a machine in charge of a skilled operator. The new employee becomes at once an observer and a helper, and in a little while takes charge of the machine and the skilled operator stands by and gives special instructions.

We have detail instruction cards or process sheets for all operations, and one of these cards in the hands of the new operator will serve as a guide for turning out the work properly after the instructor leaves the new employee to himself or herself.

In addition to this we have certain selected engineers from the Time Study Department, who are attached to both the day and night shifts, and devote their entire time to coaching the new operators, and see to it that they learn to acquire the desired degree of skill and proficiency.

We find that the women who are selected for this sort of work just about equal the men. They show considerable enthusiasm for the work, as is indicated by a less degree of lateness and absenteeism than that of the men, but we have not had enough experience as yet to say anything definite in this regard.

It is also perhaps true that we are taking greater pains instructing the women than we would in the ordinary course take in instructing green men.

(Signed) CHARLES S. GINGRICH.

THE STANDARD PARTS CO.

Cleveland, Ohio

Each individual department at the start of the year had its own training division, that is, while we had the orders we lacked a good many of the machines necessary to do our work and the proper tool equipment to start with. We also required the services of eight hundred additional people.