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We produce our base forgings of aluminum on hand-turret screw machines. On this particular forging there are fifty-six gauging points, with allowable limits on different operations ranging from five hundred thousandths of an inch to two thou BUSINESS EXECUTIVES 261 Sanths of an inch. In January, 1916, the average production of thirty-one women employees was eight, pieces per hour. While the operatives were apparently busy at this rate of production, my experiments showed that there should be produced from those machines as a fair production an average of thirty-five pieces per hour. We put our old operatives into the training department, and within four weeks after the new and old operatives had been through this training department, the average production was raised to over twenty-five pieces per hour, and today the average is over fifty-five pieces per hour. The same results were obtained on all of our work, such as machining, inspection and assemblage. It is particularly important and interesting to' note that many of our most skilled operatives are men and women well along in life. We find that while the young worker has more vigor, the older one is usually more careful and steady, and more anxious to keep up a high average rate of production. Their continuous work on their jobs brings this average production up to that of the younger and more vigorous. We have demonstrated that strong, healthy women can do work requiring great precision after they are thoroughly trained quite as well as skilled men mechanics. They work on handturret screw machines, hand millers, power millers, drill presses, thread millers, punch presses, routers and special machines of all types. They are remarkably efficient as inspectors. We have also taught them to be excellent tool-makers. . ....