The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-08
FEMININE EFFICIENCY
 H IN MAKING MUNITIONS

N New York, Sept. 3-A little more than a year ago Will I. Dinner was a nlanufacturer of instruments of pre- ci5ion in Dayton, O. His business was small. When 1t became known that contractors for shells were han dicapped by difficulty in getting the proper sort of time fuse to make shells salable M. Dinner saw his opportunity and lost no time taking advantage of it. Today the Recording & Comput- ing Machines CO, of which he is the president, turns out 2S,000 time fuses Ia day, has 7.400 employees, and pay roll of BPS, 900 a. weeb; and in addition to that the most remarkable thing about the tplant is that it has demon strated that women can, become as good or as better than men as skilled workers.
 4 iWomen, according to MT. Dinner, Hho arrived at Ahe Waldorf-Astoria last week, have been taught in the plant inside of three weeks what skill ed workmen have taken three or, five years to learn. Some oflthem turn out five or six times the product that the best workmen have accomplished with the same machines. The female staff of the big factory, which now em- ploys almost double the number. of the works that put Dayton on the map, is largely composed of college girls, musicians. singers, school teach ers coming from all parts of the coun- try, and they get the same wages as the men-$3 to q a day.
 While was in New York last Tall a strike was declared in our fac bory,p said M. Dinner. %''We had ecafcely moro than 100 women work Ing for us then, and telegraphed them that if they would stick by us we would pay them mems wages. They stuck: We got more women. eW esta ablished a mechanical training school, where three weeks they 1earn- bd as much about handling machinery es skilled workmen had picked up in three to five years. And it is a fact that many of these women can get out of the machines much more work than mon. Ours is the only eoncern in the United States making Swhat is known as the European time fuse. We turn ont the fuse complete from raw material. We now have 1000 women working in the establishment, and I think our plant has done more to dis Cover and develop the high order of mechanical skill latent in woman than any other institution.
 We, ourselves, have been startled as the results accomplished have prov ed almost beyond belief. The kind of girls who work for us is not the kind you zee in the mills of the East. Among our employees are 125 school teachers. There are musicians, grad b1ates of colleges, and women of good Families, every one of them making B to $7 2 day. They run some of the heaviest machines we have, including the big turret machines, which some thought impossible for any but a strong man to grapple with. There pre certain machines which, operated by male mechanics. turned out 200 parts of q certain kind per day. We put our most expert mechanics onf them. and the best they could get out of them was-60 per day. Then we put our trained women on them and. to our great surprise, they were able to turn out as high as 1900 day. We have taught them to set their own machines, to sharpen the tools they use-in fact, every kind of work the men do. There Is another kind of machine where men had been turn oug out, at the highest, II parts per hour. Women, using .r3e same ma chimes, are now turning out 57 per hour.
 We have girls from all parts of the bourtry. We started first with Day. ton girls, but the news spread that women could make as much money as bnen in our factory, and they came
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