One interesting result of training resident unemployed is the
practical elimination of the housing problem in certain instances.
This is exemplified in the city of Detroit, where it is estimated
that 50,000 additional mechanics will be needed before the end
of the year. If those now engaged in the war plants could be
advanced to more skilled positions, and their places be filled by
present residents of Detroit engaged in non-essential or unskilled
industries, or those not now at work, the need for housing of the
50,000 mechanics with their families could be, if not entirely, at
least, in part, eliminated.
All who have tried these intensive methods of training are happily
surprised at the shortness of time required to make skilled
operatives for precision work in tool room and factory of men from
non-essential trades and of the more intelligent women now entering
industry for the war.