The clothmaker. [volume] (Clinton, South Carolina) 1952-1984, August 15, 1977, Image 4

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wP Eddie Price closely ol settings are done properl ^ pr * % ? * A. * yy jr tt?k l:s>*L k m i \ i* * Weaving instructor Ma at work. jserves Eric Clayton, loom technici y. Mfi v BCfl ^ ? ? irie Taylor observes Mary Pyles ^.4^/^L^ \ * *^1 *i ian trainee, to be certain loom F j 1 Trainees usually are interested in what we are attempting-to teach them? Lucille Dunaway. Training Is Impo Investir Training is a large and i important expenditure for I Clinton Mills each year. i "It's an investment that ; helps keep Clinton Mills I vviup^iiiivc, ocijra nauuug : Director James Buchanan. j "The Company constantly t needs new and better trained ? employees-whether its to fill ( a job vacancy or to operate new and more modern ma- s chinery, or in some in- t stances, to upgrade and re- p train present employees." t "A successful training program involves close team- c work and co-operation, but a [ key role is played by the p numerous dedicated em- E ployees who serve as train- E ing instructors," added c Buchanan. n "The instructors must c take an individual who is unskilled or underskilled and c prepare him for a particular ti job." f< "In actual instruction," F added Buchanan, "We try to T keep the classes small so L that a person can get indi- \ vidual instructions. For in- ir stance, in I^oom Filling Sup- V plying, we try to have no B more than three trainees." ..4:1: a- ? isiiiuuu utilizes a cenirai* It ? <i I rtant lent zed training concept where jy new irainess are brought into the center and taught on a step by step basis the fundamentals of a job. The >tep by step process serves as a building block and the rainee gradually builds skills necessary to run a complete job. A short period of time is ;pent in the center before the rainees are carried to the >roduction areas for futher raining. Members of the training enter staff include Lucille )unaway, Loom Filling Sup>lier Instructor, Mary lughes, Weaving; James Iddie Price, Loom Techniian, and Connie Davis, Spining. Josh Savage is training A_/?p/4inofn?? v-v* uiuatui Instructors for the analytial method "in the plant raining" include Dot Lan[>rd, Plant No. 2, Loom "illing Supplier; Evelyn hompson, Plant No. 1, oom Filling Supplier; larie Taylor, Lydia Weavig; Jeannette Stroud, No. 2 leaving; and Betty Kinard, ailey Spooling. jjjI t to loom.