"Question: Is there any difference between the conditions under which machinery is made now and those which existed ten years ago?

-Well, the trade has been subdivided and those subdivisions have been again subdivided, so a man never learns the machinist trade now.…In fact, through this system of work, 100 men are able to do now what it took 300 to 400 men to do fifteen years ago. By the use of machinery and the subdivisions of the trade they so simplify the work that it is made a great deal easier and put together a great deal faster.

-There is no system of apprenticeship, I may say, in the business.

-You simply go in and learn whatever branch you are put at, and you stay at that unless you are changed to another…."