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.
We trained absolutely unskilled men and women during this slack
period, so that when we started in quantity production we had also
obtained speed. An item that might be of interest to you is the fact
that we are now employing women in Drill Presses, Milling Machines,
Hand and Automatic Screw Machines, Turret Lathes, Speed Lathes,
Engine Lathes, Assembly Work and Inspection Work.
[Illustration: Automatic Milling Machine—Standard Parts Company.]
These women and the majority of the unskilled men whom we employed
are doing work in most cases where dimensions are held to one-half
thousandth of an inch limit variation. In a plant employing excess
of five thousand people am absolutely convinced that a separate
vestibule training school is a necessity, and in plants already
producing work in large quantities there is liable to be a heavy
demand for trained skilled workers, a separate training school would
be necessary.
However, where the number of workers needed do not exceed ten people
on an individual operation training on machines in the department
would be sufficient.
August 7, 1918.
(Signed) J. A. ROTHENBERG,
_Employment Manager_.
[Illustration: A skilled worker on Automatic Turret Lathe—Standard
Parts Company.]