Show SEVEN MILLION NEED i I r Industrial W Workers o rIcers Greatly Handicapped No Now v Offered Aid Washington ton D. D C. C C. That That seven mil tall million lion llon of ot tho the industrial workers in this country are handicapped b by lack of at adequate opportunities for tor self self- improvement Is the statement of or the tho director of at the United States training service of ot the tho department of or labor based on Investigations made in a large largo number of or typical manufacturing plants and on personal Interview with manufacturers shop superintendents and foremen Modern Industry has bas developed many lines of or manufacture of or such ouch limited skill that no apprenticeships have been Instituted for tor them In tho the skilled lines linos apprenticeships are haphazardly haphazard conducted In most lines of at production production production tion where there thero Is no apprenticeship adequate training is wholly lacking and so employers and aro at ata a great disadvantage It Is to overcome this needless burden burden bur bur- den on American production that traInIng trainIng train- train Ing lug courses in plants are aro advocated by the training service To back up Its Ils claim that this method of at fitting tilling men for their Jobs Is profitable the tho service exhibits a number of or charts showing tho the transformation wrought in work work- workers ers ors who were sent through h training departments These show that on or tho the average tho the new employ learns his I new work In about half halt the tho time limo formerly formerly form torm- erly required and that old of or mediocre skill or less can bo be upgraded upgraded up up I graded to equal some Borne of at the best Others aro are fitted for tor promotion b by training Not only Is 13 the average production raised by tho loho introduction of or trainIng training train- train In Ing but ut labor turnover Is reduced and nd spoilage is much less The factories having training departments find that in most cases they aro sulf |