WORKERS ON SKATES
Mill Hands In Japan The need for industry to ratio<aa>«e and speed factory hat finally brought the art of roller-skating from the playground to the industrial floor. A Japanese wool-spinning mill, where speed is required to fix cut yarn in the shortest possible time, started equipping the workers with roller skates, on * trial basis, about two years, ago, and found it extremely successful. A worker, attending 16meter spinners, can now make one round of ths machine in 30 to 25 seconds with roller skate* as against 50 seconds without skates. He can attend to three machines as against two with the conventional method. Encouarged by this finding, the wool-spinning mill, one of the largest in the country, selects all of its new workers from among those who can skate. Other spinning mills are also intending to take up this successful new method.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30038, 24 January 1963, Page 15
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