Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1926, Page 75

Three Industries in National Capital Rank With Gre _(Continued from Third Page) imitate marble in many colors. This process consists of a solution of gum gathered in the tropics, dissolved to the proper consistency and poured in a shallow hox or trough in which colors are sprinkled which have been ground in water and mixed with beef gall. Any design made of a combina- tion of colors may be worked out by the bookbinder or marbler. In the process of lettering or embel- cks_of leather-bound d books and impressed with alightly heated lines of brass type or hand tools of various designs. By tha use of beautifully engraved tools and small fillet rolls most elahorate designs are worked out in gold leaf on rare and valuable book covers \ldest of our industrial plants -y at the Washington ch has been in exist ence about 125 vears and which rep resents an approximate valuation of $50,000,000. There we find an average of 3.000 emploves, two-thirds of whom are skilled laborers or artisans, rep resenting some 50 trades. Here all of the ordnance work of the Navy is onnts lant for the instruments, & men as v trades of optical a trade school to tr: machinists and for s, draft d pattern model tank, dest in the or ships are a unique wind rships and air- planes and an important radio lab oratory. world, in_which mox tested. There is al tunnel for testing Much of ‘the work done in this plant | (s 1= especially delicate and intricate. calling for the highest skill of crafts. men or artisans. This is especially true regarding optical and fire-control instruments The machinists—and this is appli- cable also to other trades—must serve & four-year apprenticeship and then serve three or four more as journeymen before they are entitled to the highest rating for experience under the civil service rules. The training school for apprentices at the Washington Navy Yard is well called the Naval Academy of Skilled Trades. There the aim of turning out good machinists is achieved. In private plants the apprentices are turnedl to work on qu-atity production, with the result that the quality of produc- tion often sadly suffers, while at the Washington Navy Yard the product must always be perfect to ten-thou sandths of an inch. The quality of the gun factory eraftsmen can he seen from this. Dur- ing the war there were 10,000 em- ploved there, of whom 4.500 were ma- chinists. Under the civil service the less efficient were weeded out and the cream of the trade retained. The employes are taken in under civil service, which picks from the top of the list for efficiency, and the dis- charges are made from the least ef- ficlent. As a net result of this sys- tem through a long period of vears the claim is made, and with some Justice, that the hest machinists in the country are mobilized in this Washington plant. There are now about 850 machinists there. Really there are mearly 60 trades represented in the navy yard, of which about 20 are the more highly skilled trades. These machinists have to he able to read complicated blue prints and have to understand the operation of some 30 machine- &hop tools such as lathes, planers, &crew machines and drill presses, and to use zeveral hundred small tools #uch as drills, reamers and files. They must know how to take care of them and not spoil these tools, and how to give maximum speed with due regard for the tool and the qfiality of | the work. They must know how to use these tools on various materfals—steel, rub- ber, brass, wood, etc. They must be able to take fine measurements down to 1-10,000 of an inch, and to work done to such exact measurements, where in private machine shops a atest in All America thirty-second of an inch s usually close enough. Just think, the gun factory ma- chinist has to work to 1-310th of what the fellow craftsman in private industry does. There is another fmportant thought. This group of machinists is our standing army of ordnance produc- tion. This work s just as essential to first line defense of the country as the enlisted personnel. The guns they make for the battleships could not be operated unless they were put to- gether properly. It is just ms essen- tial that the Government should main- tain this standing army of production as units of the Army and Navy. They keep abreast of modern science and skill. They are a nucleus ready for rapid expansion to meet emergencies, when they could promptly train thousands of others, whers they can be sent out into private plants that et a Government contract to lay mn the work and get it started prope: and to inspect and test the fin(shed job The breech mechanism {s probably the most intricata job at the Waeh- ington Navy Yard | This plant is different from all [nl!wv! in the country, because it is the only gun factory of the American | Navy that has always steod every | test ‘for the Nation's defense, just as | Newport is the hest plant for manu- facture of torpedoes. Some parts are also made at the Washington Navy Yard for the air service, especially catapults for battleships and various kinds of opti cal instruments for the Navy. 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