NORTON GRINDING COMPANY

Below is a list of men from the Norton Co., Worcester, taking a summer course in the Worcester Trade School to qualify in an eight weeks’ course as all round machine hands. Five other factories are sending similar groups of employees. Their wages will soon be from 30 per cent. to 100 per cent. more than ever before, which indicates in a measure their increased service in the war emergency.

Could anything indicate better than this group in training for all round machine hands, and the statement of their previous experience which follows, the necessity of bringing men like them into our factories, first giving them an intensive training which develops their latent abilities?

Name Age Previous education Previous occupation Former wage

A. B. 24 Grammar School Carpenter Not stated

E. R. 32 Grammar School Laborer $18 per week

C. M. 30 High School, 1 year Musician, 9 years $22 or $20 week

C. J. 24 Grammar School Elastic Dept. 35½c per hour and piece work

O. L. 18 Trade School, 4 years Student

I. K. 24 High School, 1½ years Scraper hand 45c per hour

C. D. 20 High School, 3 years Grocery clerk $2.75 per day

T. J. 44 Grammar School Painter 34c per hour

A. S. 27 High School, 4 years Adjusting glasses in optician’s office 5 yrs. at $18 week

9 mos. at $25 week

D. S. 20 High School, 1 year Assembling, machine shop 34c per hour

M. O’B. 42 Grammar School Brushmaker for 33 yrs. $4 per day

C. K. 32 High School, 2 years Assembling, machine shop 35c per hour

O. G. 19 Not given Grading 35c per hour

S. G. 31 Norwich Univ. graduate Civil engineer, in business for himself

M. W. 17 High School, 1 year Turret lathe operator, 2 years 27½c per hour

Trade School, 1 year

J. S. 21 Primary School Moulder, 1 year $3.50 per day

L. B. 20 High School, did not graduate Grocery clerk Not stated

M. H. 18 High School Student

M. T. 33 Primary School 35c per hour

A. S. 38 Grammar School Scene shifter in Poli’s Theater $21 per week

I. G. 19 Grammar School, 2 years Student

H. M. 20 Not given Carrying boxes, Logan, Swift & Brigham 30c per hour

Vertical Milling—two weeks in school. Previous experience, plumber and punch press operator. Norton.

Sharpening Milling Cutter on Norton Tool Grinder—seven weeks in school. Previous experience, two years boiler factory and teamster. Norton.

MACHINISTS’ CLASS, NORTON COMPANIES, AT WORCESTER TRADE SCHOOL, SUMMER OF 1918.

MACHINISTS’ CLASS, NORTON COMPANIES, AT WORCESTER TRADE SCHOOL, SUMMER OF 1918.

Taking an eight-weeks’ course of intensive training fitting them to take places in a general machine shop. This course carries them much farther than machine operators.

FEMALE EMPLOYEES AT NORTON COMPANY, WORCESTER, MASS., JULY, 1918, IN KHAKI UNIFORM.

Grinding on Brown & Sharpe universal machine; 5 weeks in school; previous experience, designer in corset shop (Norton).

Operating Warner & Swasey turret lathe; no previous experience in machine shop; 8 weeks in school and now earns 45 cents per hour p. w. (Norton).

Learning bench work; one of these men in school 6 weeks; previous to coming here owned a butcher shop (Norton).