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REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE BEVERLY INDEPENDENT INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL

To the Board of Trustees of the Beverly Independent Industrial School:
Gentlemen:

I submit herewith the report covering the tenth school year of fifty weeks ending July 19th, 1919, and a part of the eleventh year, from August 4 to December 31.

COMMENTS.

The practical training that the Beverly Independent Industrial School is giving as it is organized, co-operating with a progressive, well-established industry, has increased its earning capacity of the pupils enrolled in a way that I consider worthy of mention, as it is not considered practical to give the pupils on part time an hour rating. The increase given on the regular piece work prices by the United Shoe Machinery Corporation during the current year has enabled the pupils on part time to increase their actual earnings for the last year from .139 to .224 per hour, which resulted in $888.07 more money being paid the pupils than in the previous year.

The value of the full time pupil in the industry was recognized by the company in July, 1919, by an increase of twenty cents per hour, making the minimum rating at present .55. All of the seventeen pupils on full time at present are making over their rating. The opportunity given the full time pupils of being transferred into different departments in the factory, which affords them a chance to become skilled in the higher branches of the trade and also to work for more than one fore- II man, is being greatly appreciated !by the pupils.

GRADUATES.

Seven of the ten pupils on full time received certificate of graduation on October 8th, 1919, the others continuing on full time in the school, as the state law requires that a boy must be eighteen years of age before he may be employed by the industry to operate all of the machine tools used in the trade except as a pupil in a trade school.

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