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Bringing Up Father

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 9, 1940

WHERE THEY ARE GETTING ON WITH THE WAR

in

For six days I have lived in six, do not stay the course is one midland cities. Now you might as-five. Everything is voluntary about sume that it is boastful of me to the course. The men please them- claim great knowledge of what is selves whether they undergo the happening to-day in one of the great- | course, they please themselves when est prosperity belts in the world. they throw it up.

I want to pay a tribute to the technique of teaching which the Ministry of Labour are developing.

They took us to the midlands be- cause we wanted the answer to two questions. What part are these cities playing in the national war effort? How are we going to get over the difficulty of finding men and women to fill all the jobs which will need doing during the war?

on

In this 20 per cent. of failures are the men who are advised to give up the course because they are not suited

-By-

TREVOR EVANS

for engineering, and metal work. After all, a man must be interested in this sort of job before he can succeed.

All the men who complete the few exceptions, get

The first was answered in such great detail that I can claim to know more about Birmingham's effort than most Birmingham men, and so through Coventry and Northampton, Leicester and Nottingham, the pot- teries of Staffordshire, the coalfields course, with of the north midlands, and the farm-jobs. That is what makes me think that this system goes a long way to lands of Holland in Lincolnshire.

fill the gaps caused by the decay of the apprenticeship system in country.

The second was explained, and it was clear that no single solution will

be found.

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* But what I want to stress is thoroughness of the tuition we re- ceived in this long week-end.

this

courses

It's no good expecting many firms the to start their own training

just now. Most of them are too busy turning out war material, they haven't the space to set aside a special cannot spare training section, they the skilled workers to give tuition, and they are too nervous to let beginner handle an expensive chine without a skilled man watching

Our tutors concentrated. That is the secret of the training which is now to be given to unemployed men over forty-five and to black- coated professional men who have lost their jobs, to fit them for jobs in arms factories.

him.

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a

ma-

But I was quite as interested in the men undergoing training in this cen-

We heard all about this plan in Leicester, and it was to a suburb in that city we were taken to see one of the most up-to-date train-tre as in the machines and the teach- ing centres in the world.

ing system.

The oldest man here was forty-

The teachers have developed a four. He once owned a chain of pro-

in

in-

concentrated tuition which will six months teach an ordinarily telligent man more about drilling and turning, instrument making and weld- ing than he would learn in a factory in three or four years. They cut out the carrying of messages and tools which usually takes up so much of a beginner's time in a factory. Here in this centre the trainees ac-

tually handle the tools and machines which they will operate in their jobs after they have been trained.

In the classrooms the lessons are based on the jobs the men have been doing that day. This improves on ordinary night school and tech- nical institution technique, where, of necessity, the theory taught may not be applied practically for years.

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Progress charts are kept for every

If a man lags behind

trainee.

for two consecutive weeks, the manager

is halfway vision shops. Now he through his training as a fitter.

Next in age was a man of forty- two, happy because he was fulfilling his life's ambition,

He always wanted to be an en- gineer, but he joined the Army early in the last war, assuming the would be short and he would be able

war

to start his training. When he came out of the Army the industry was not concerned about training more men. It was forced to dispense with thousands of men in the factories.

This ex-soldier had to find a job. He became a labourer and that has. been his job for twenty years. He for has had to satisfy his craving

house,

doing more skilled work by being a super-handy man about the devising and making his own gadgets.

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his

He lost his job when the war start- or assistant manager sends for him, ed. He was told about this training asks him what's the trouble, Some-scheme when he signed on for times the speed is too great, but often- er the man is worried over some news he has received from home, or his lodgings are not comfortable, or he is disturbed by the personality the man on the next bench,

of

The authorities try to smooth all these matters out so that the man's progress is not hindered, although they try to maintain the same sort of discipline in these centres as exists in outside engineering plants.

The percentage of

trainees who

benefit. He had not heard of it be- fore because he had held a steady job and there had been no reason for calling at the labour exchange.

Now he says, "The best thing that ever happened to me was when I lost my job. In three months shall be working on a lathe."

I

I spoke to the bacteriologist who is learning to become a draughts- man. This, by the way, is a nine months' course and the longest in

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By George McManus

WELL HERE WE ARE – ON THE TRAIN LEAVING PHILADELPHIA-

FOR THE CAPITOL.N WASHINGTON-

DON'T TALK SO MUCH AND HELP ME STRAIGHTEN,

DRAWING-

ROOM-

NOW- PUT THIS GRIP OVER BY THAT HAT-BOX AND TAKE THIS SUIT-CASE AND PUT IT THERE:

ONE ORDER AT A TIME- MAGGIE -

NOW- JUST PUT

MY GRIP ON THAT SIDE AND

WE ARE ALL SET-

THANK HEAVEN- 'NOW I CAN SIT

AND ENJOY THE SCENERY-

SOON?

UP OUR

WASHINGTON-

ALL OUT –

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