THE STANDARD PARTS CO.

Cleveland, Ohio

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.

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.

A skilled worker on Automatic Turret Lathe—Standard Parts Company.