Industry on Parade: Serving Those Who Served, Salvaged Skills

Series: Industry on Parade

Year Published: 1950s

Creator: Lodge (Arthur) Productions Inc.

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: About vocational rehabilitation programs for disabled veterans and workers. It highlights two main examples: a school of watchmaking in Woodside, Long Island, which trained veterans who were at least 70% physically disabled — providing them with free instruction and a full set of tools upon graduation — and a Philadelphia manufacturing plant (Leeds & Northrop) that employed blind and physically disabled workers in precision instrument production. The overarching message is that people with physical disabilities, when given the right opportunity and training, can become fully productive members of the workforce, echoing a sentiment attributed to General Omar Bradley about industry recognizing the skills of "brave and patient men."

Transcription

Don. Review longer than investment and infrastructure speech we hired the National Association of Manufacturers the Jones of all of the school of watchmaking at Woodside Long Island. One of the most inspiring institutions ever established for the benefit of men who gave everything but their very lives to their country. The school was founded for the purpose of teaching watchmaking without cost to the physically hundred got better and the building was designed to meet the special needs of such men in the large classroom accommodating one hundred and twenty five men at a time there's a complete set of watchmaker tools and equipment for each student and the men take these with them when they graduate. That is a gift from the school by means of every modern teaching device including training films and such visual aids as large scale working models the student receives a comprehensive course on everything is of making and maintaining a lot even received training in other aspects of running a jewelry store. Well that's where most of the graduates will be employed. Although all the students are at least seventy percent disabled the learning of a trade that allows them to get back on their own makes them whole. MAN one small and Roland is limited by the school's insistence on personalized instruction for every student. Although at the request of the Veterans Administration the toes of bill of a school of watchmaking now has established branches in a number of veterans' hospitals. And here's graduate breaker Sean at work in the Marlow jewelry store in Richmond Hill New York. Demonstrating that he can hold up his end performing a useful and happy function in the society. He's served so well and demonstrating to in the words of General Omar Bradley fall through the bulk of the plan and industry has uncovered and used the skills of brave men and patient men. The busy hands of a skilled factory worker would you have guessed from watching them that these are the hands of a man who is totally blind yet told to so is only one of many persons often called a handicap at the Philadelphia plant of lead the Northrop company have been given a chance to prove themselves more than able to hold up their end in a hustling industrial organization the work done in this plant the manufacture of automatic controls recorders and other intricate instruments is precision work yet the management of Leeds and author of long ago decided that a handicap that doesn't interfere with the proper performance of a particular task is a very little important senior vice president Kerry and personnel manager Johnson are two of the administrators of the program who have seen it pay off generously they give you Tony Martin whose club hands haven't prevented him from becoming a skilled craftsman all over the planet. You will find persons who say they have lost a leg or whose weakened limbs must be supported by braces. But for whom the right job has been found and who will fill that job one hundred percent many cases the so-called handicaps have proved to be just the opposite as with death you too can exchange information with complete ease. Even in a noisy shop. QUESTION And reading the other person's expanding economy and distance from correct. For example. American strive to provide the best kind of working conditions. Everything possible to preserve situations. Greatest opportunity for personal advancement. Possible particular business problems. The two.

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