ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS
Reading edition
154 E. Erie Street, Chicago
We are planning to have this school in operation within the next month. The writer expects to be responsible for the results. We expect to take one good man from our own plant as an instructor, and we are also in communication with an instructor from a college in a Western State whom we may have in direct charge of this work should he prove to be the proper person.
At the present time we have in our factory about 75 female employees, on Lathes, Milling Machines, Grinders, Finishing Gauges, Lapping, etc., also inspectors, timekeepers and stock chasers.
Since your last visit we have employed a trained nurse who is in charge of the employment and welfare work of all women employed in the factory. This we have found has given us much better results and can truthfully say that with very few exceptions, every girl employed is certainly making good.
We have one instance where a man employed in the screw machine department, employed in that capacity for about a year, was having trouble in not producing on his machine. We had him exchange machines with a woman who had had a month’s experience and found that she practically doubled his output the first day.
(Signed) J. D. Sherman, Factory Manager.
August 5, 1918.