. Railway mechanical engineer . s-factory that the journeymen were glad to have them withthem. Hut in the earlier stages of the apprenticeship allagreed that the best results could be obtained from workingthe apprentices in apprentice gangs under the supervision ofthe apprentice instructor. INSTRUCTIONS IN THE M. C. B. RUL1 S J. E. Saunders, apprentice instructor at Shopton, Iowa,acted as chairman. It was pointed out that the best waythe apprentices can learn the M. C. B. rules is to have theinstruction take place while they are doing the repair is a possibility of correlating the w
. Railway mechanical engineer . s-factory that the journeymen were glad to have them withthem. Hut in the earlier stages of the apprenticeship allagreed that the best results could be obtained from workingthe apprentices in apprentice gangs under the supervision ofthe apprentice instructor. INSTRUCTIONS IN THE M. C. B. RUL1 S J. E. Saunders, apprentice instructor at Shopton, Iowa,acted as chairman. It was pointed out that the best waythe apprentices can learn the M. C. B. rules is to have theinstruction take place while they are doing the repair is a possibility of correlating the work with the schoolinstruction to good advantage. Mr. Swanson believed thatit would be far better to take the boys to the repair tracks,explain the work being done and show them the rules govern-ing these repairs. Particular stress should be laid on theimportant rules, which should be given out for study; theboys should be examined on them at the next school is highly desirable to have the shop instructors attend the. Freight Car Apprentice Repairing a Car Roof school classes with the boys in order that the practical prob-lems may be discussed and the instructors may be sure thatthey are thoroughly understood. FREIGHT CAR WORK FOR COACH CARPENTERAPPRENTICES Frank Meyers, apprentice instructor in the freight carshop at Topeka, acted as chairman. The question at issuewas whether or not the passenger car apprentices who arerequired to serve four years should be required to spend sometime on freight car work. This has been tried in some cases,but it was found that as a rule the boys object to being re-quired to do freight car work, feeling satisfied to restricttheir field of endeavor to passenger cars. However, it waspointed out that if competent car foremen are to be made ofthese boys some experience in the freight car work is neces-sary, as this is the largest field in the car department andcannot be overlooked. The experience obtained by the boys,also, will permit of
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