DETROIT LUBRICATOR COMPANY
Reading edition
Detroit, Michigan
New employees are started on simple work and given individual instruction. They are then advanced to more difficult work.
By this method of training we have operators giving top production who only a short time ago were automobile salesmen, cigar salesmen, letter carriers and watchmen.
The women trained in this way are producing excellent results and are making as good pay as the men on the same piece-work. At some types of inspection they excel any men we ever had on the jobs for speed and accuracy.
We have two men, with only one arm each! (after proper training) doing more work than the average two men.
The company has created a new department for the production of Liberty Motor Aeroplane Carburetors, and the work of this department includes a great variety of machines. It writes:
In order to furnish employees for this work with at least partial training, we are recruiting them from other departments in the shop doing similar work; in each of these other departments we have a section set aside which includes type machinery, and new employees are put at this work under careful supervision and training to develop them and thoroughly determine their value before being advanced on to aeroplane work.
(Signed) G. B. Duffield, Superintendent.