Since installing our Vestibule Training School some seven weeks
ago, we can gladly say it has proven a success, even beyond our
expectations.
To date we have enrolled 109 students; 81 men, 28 women. The women
workers have proven that they can in the emergency take the place
of practically all our male workers, that is with from five to ten
days of intensive training. We have placed women on such machines as
Gear Hobbers, Screw Machines, Grinders, Drill Presses and are well
satisfied with the result obtained. The percentage of scrap material
has been less by the female workers than by the male.
In beginning our course of training each week our Mr. F. B. Hamerly,
Works Manager, has made it his duty to tell these workers the vital
need of training unskilled men and women so as to replace the boys
that are called from our plant, that is, he tries to raise them to
the highest pitch of enthusiasm.
(Signed) A. H. BOEHM,
_Vestibule Training School_.
August 16, 1918.
[Illustration: INDEPENDENT PNEUMATIC TOOL COMPANY.