Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-27
Auto Industry Using Many and
Find Them Entirely Com
petent and Facile.
MORE CAREFUL THAN MEN
They Are Better Operators and
Are Especially Careful in
Assembling Parts.
ny pU BoIs YOUNG
'vico.presIdon, and Works Manager

Vice president and Works Manager
Hupp Motor Car Corporation.)
After watching for years automo-
blloS being driven more and moro by
women we must now contemplate,
with the best grace we may. the spec.
tnclc OF women invading the field OF
automomible manufacturing.
The Hupmobilc factory la probabl
employing fewer women than many
other automobile factories OF It's size.
but We were one OF the first TO en-
ploy this class of labor. and we believe
that we have experimented with wo-
men In more departments than have
most other manufacturers.
For years women have been em-
ploycd In our top and upholstery de-
partments. this In common practice
In the industry. Hut the war and tho
consequent shortage OF labor both
skilled and unskilled. made II neces-
sary to look upon women workers. hs
our surest source OF relief.
Our first experiment with women
In the new field was Ia the parts d.
vision OF our service department,
Hero they were employed as stock
checkers and stock order filters. Wa
were agreeably surprised to find that
cient than the men previously em-
ployed.
better Than Men az the Work.
The women doing this work ara
more intelligent than the correspond
Ing class OF men. They are also more
Interested In their jobs and more
careful by nature. The same spirit
that insists that parts In stockroom
be kept In their proper bins insists
that puts and pans be kept Ia their
proper, places In tho Kitchen. Errors
In the filling or arts ordefs and mis-.
takes In inventory due 10 careless
storage is.se been reduced enormous
~ since the taking over OF this work
by women.
Light assembly work on the car it.
SELF was the next work assigned 10
wonen. Certain operations In con-
noctlon with the assembly OF rum
ming boards and other light installa-
tons were we'll within woman's
su ensth and required no particular
mechanical training. On this class OF
WORK, too. women surprised ua BY
tbeir accuracy and Industry Final
Inspection shows less 20 criticise in
the assemblies now handled by wo.
men than when they were handled
by mon exclusively.
IN the service repair shop women
were set 10 work disa saem bling jobs
sent In FOR repair and Jobs turned IN
Tor salvage. Neatness sand thorough
ness characterized their work In this
department., and / believe the work
Did order.
Women have not yet invaded our
shop. but II industrial con.
oiuons continue 20 devotion along
present Iines certain machine shop
operations will be In women's hands
before many tmonths. Wherever mn
operation ia handled by an automatic
oftentimes woman can
take the place OF a man. This Is not
always truo, for where one man on
account OF his training can take care
OF several machines, two women
would be required to do the same
work
Can DO Heavy IAfting. =
In emergencies that have arisen In
the department where we are now
employing women, we have seen evil
dences that women are capable OF doe
Ing much heavier work than is com
monty considered within their pow.
ers. We have men, OF course. 10 40
the heavier lifting, but many OF the
women In their enthusiasm do not
walt for the men TO do this kind OF
work, but do Il themselves. appar.
sntly with considerable ease.
Those who maintain that the phys
Ical standards OF women are degeners
atins In these modern days should
spend more time In tho Hupmoble
factories watching the women work
FRS. They are a strong, husky, whole
some lot much healthier I'm every
way then the men they have replaced.
A absenccs and tardiness due TO III
health have been reduced TO mini
mum since women have been en-.
ployed. This is due partly TO the fact
hat women are intensely interested
n this new work and anxious to make
rood, and partly to the fact that, be-
ng more regular In their habits than
heir predecessors, they are less sus-
'cptible to colds and other diseases
What win happen after the war,
when men return from the front or
rom other occupations into which
hey have been drawn by the war TO
Ind women holding their Jobs is
worth more than n passini, thought
I'm Industrial revolution is predicted
" some, but this seems an extreme
lew TO take OF the situation In the
irst place, the women who are now
Hing the ranks are the wives, sis
ers and daughters OF the men they
re replacing