MILL WHISTLE
Marshall Field & Co., Manufacturing Division
Volume One
Mondaj% August 31, 1942
Number Four
Always School Days Here!...
For the past several years Marshall
Field & Co., Manufacturing Division,
has not only ■ given every employe an
opportunity to learn more about his
work, or work he is interested in, but
has warmly encouraged' employes to
take this opportunity. The Company
has established various schools where
any employe can study any subject in ■
which he is interested, under capable
tutors.
One of the most interesting of these
schools is the machine shop in the Voca
tional School buildingr- and the most
interesting feature is the women ma
chinists there, working under the ex
pert direction of T. W. Bridges. These
women, many of them mothers of stal
wart sons, handle the complicated ma
chinery with the same deft sureness
that the average woman handles her
sewing machine.
Strange as it may sound, it is a fore
gone fact that in the near future we
■will see these huge, complicated lathes,
planers, shapers, drills and other like
machines manned entirely by women
—with a few men to do the heaviest
work. It is-even conceivable that some
where on the battlefields of the world
a begrimed soldier will shove a shell
into his gun, little dreaming that the
gun barrel was made by his mother,
the Shell made by his sister. And who
In the Pictures
At left.—Ruby A. Shelton operating a
lathe.
Top Right.—Pearl Stigall and Annie H.
Cantrell busy at an engine lathe.
Lower Right. — Eldredge Hodges in
structing Fuchsia Kallam in the opera
tion of a planer.
knows but that other parts of that
same gun may not have been made by
his grandmother!
Ten per cent of your income
in War Bonds will help to
build, the planes and tanks
that will insure defeat of Hit
ler and his Axis partners.