Show LAN TO 10 TRAIN lABOR LADOR WOUlD i REDUCE CO COST 1 0 l 1 Of UVIN Assistant Secretary of War Warf f Offers Method to Increase 1 Earning Capacity of Workers All Indu Industrial trial v INDUSTRIAL INDUSTRIAL I training of their 1 by factory owners nd d industrial corporations as a means cans of reducing the high cost of f liv living ng and casing industrial unrest will be inaugurated throughout Je United States by the war depart departS department department ment ment according to a communication in the office of ot Major Fred adjutant general of Utah om om oni Colonel Arthur Woods assistant IN the secretary of war Under Colonel Colon plan the factory owners and corporations throughout th the Country In number will vill pa pay their workers a sufficient living wage wag the period of their apprenticeS apprentice apprenticeship ship while they are are giving them indus indus- vial S-ial S training ORIGIN OF PLAN ft J The plan originated in the difficult situation in which the country now nos finds itself because of ot the he high cost industrial unest unrest un un- At jf it living and general rest est the communicated states It i is is felt lt by the assistant to the secretary df 61 war that the fundamental solution ft b the high cost of ot living lies in an ar creaSe of production and that indus indus- industrial trial tHai training at the same time it ac- ac this result will also make every worker whether sid skilled lied semi semiskilled semi semi- skilled or unskilled feel that he has ha ji real opportunity for tor advancement nd TicS for an increase of his earning power EFFICIENCY LOW Investigation shows that American f factories a are running at a very ery lo 1 Jevel evel of efficiency It is estimated that men are arc being used today tc do the work that men could do 40 o if they were properly trained The Th f average worker according to these figures never attains an output ol 01 l than 35 per cent of his best ef ef- simply because he has nevel heen been trained to do his work worl properly a a slight increase in this level ol oj will mean a great increasE il h i the national production and a corresponding corresponding cor responding decrease In the cost of liv ing Those Those ThoM employers who have alrEad alreadA been approached with this project and particularly those who have already tried the scheme are thoroughly confident confident confident con con- of ot its feasibility and tremendous possibilities It is found that not only is the productive power of these men increased but that they actually pay for themselves at the same time that they are learning and that by the Increase in increase increase In- In crease in their individual efficiency a a. fund of ot labor Is created from which experts in technical and managerial capacities can be recruited Some factories factories factories fac fac- tories report a doubling of ot the mens men's output as the result of Industrial training LABOR LEADERS PLEASED Tho The plan appeals equally to the labor leaders before whom it has been I laid and who have seen seen- it tried out It lt means that the individual laborer need no longer enter upon his work haphazard or feel that he has no op opportunity opportunity opportunity op- op for escape or advancement from his own particular task By this system of ot training men can be put on that work for which they are best fitted and each man benefits by the consciousness of his own individual opportunity for increasing his skill and improving his condition by an increase in m his earning power |