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.

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