A. Stczvm'! MacDonald D.F.C., M.D. C..M.

We used to walk around the shop - there were about 2,000 men working on an aircraft gun which would fire for 10 miles, and little did I know that I would be dodging the shells and flak from similar guns over Germany in less than two years. I learned a great deal from him. I doubled production the first month, which seemed impossible. We would walk around the shop each morning and he would keep shifting the men. He believed in making the link run smoothly; strengthen the weak link and slow the fast link by cutting out bottlenecking. He did all this without hiring an extra man. I used to keep a lot of graphs for him and this would show up on the graphs.

One time there was an error on a brass band about 6 feet in diameter with fifty rollers. I checked a few settings and found the error started in the same place each time. They had called for a fitter from Montreal who did not find the error. I took my findings to the millwrights and found that the graphs showed an error in the machine. The millwrights, with aid of my graphs, found a loose bolt in the machine to the floor.

I kept all the books and sometimes went to the storage room which kept all the expensive equipment, micrometers that could measure 1/10,000 of a millimetre. At first the many foremen who were giving me all the orders, found themselves taking orders from me. They were all Englishmen, and the first to tell me where I could go, was called into the office and told that he would carry out my orders, and if he did not like it he could be let go.

The office did not take up all of my time, and I would have to go out on the floor and work, under the foreman that I was giving orders to. It meant that I had to stay an hour longer in the evenings to instruct the night foreman and get there an hour earlier in the mornings, to instruct the day foreman. This meant that there were 14

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