Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-01-06 | Page 8 | Output of Labor Declared Very Low

OUTPUT OF LABOR DECLARED VERY LOW KANSAS CITY, Mn., Jan. 6 (By the Associated i'ress) "Labor lsiinfU to the proportion as It Is untrained." Miss Hazeie Moore, Dea Moines, Iowa declared In addressing the fifteenth annual convention of the National So-Clfity So-Clfity for Vocational Education. In session here today. "Authorities .'insert, " said Mis Moore, "that 60 per cent of the workers work-ers In this country today produce half what they could jf properly trained." Miss Moore in charge bf employment employ-ment and welfare work at a hosiery mill, told of methods used In that establishment Lo fit the gil entering eniploymeni lo her job "The new srir!," she said, "is made to feel she has a place In tho plant by being personally introduced to the foreman and Iiucrhctdrs She Is shown through the entire plant and we see to It that .stye meets a few girls of Iter own age and knows their names before she takes her first meal in the plant cafeteria." "Salvaging men injured in industrial indus-trial accidents instead of scrapping them" Is the w.iy K. M Little, Albany, N. V . in charge of the section of the convention dlseusding industrial rehabilitation, reha-bilitation, describes that work. We have learned," Mr. Little said, "that It Is not enough to give a man hospital treatment or even pay him a few hundred or a few thousand dollars dol-lars compensation following an accident acci-dent He must be refitted to earn a living, at some new trade If he 13 n-capai n-capai dated for bis old one, lefore you have finished the Job." I