Night Shift in U.S. Defence

This is a Brooklyn classroom. It is nearly midnight. Since early morning these machines have been humming, training men for U. S. industrial defense. This shift, the lobster trick, started at 10:30 p.m. At 2 the men will stop for coffee; at 5 a.m. they will yield their machines to the next shift.

Defense training started on a 24-hour day in New York City last week. Schools in several other cities had already done so. Training of mechanics is one of the fastest-moving phases of U. S. defense. Trainees, mostly WPAsters who have not laid hands on a machine for eight or ten years, get refresher courses of 30 hours a week. Welders are graduated to factories in 100 hours, aviation mechanics in 400 hours. Working at top speed, U. S. public vocational schools by next summer will have delivered to defense factories and airdromes nearly 500,000 mechanics.

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