United States. Council of National Defense. Committee on Labor. Section on Industrial Training for the War Emergency

This is not an individual author but a U.S. government body: the Section on Industrial Training for the War Emergency, part of the Council of National Defense's Committee on Labor. Project Gutenberg lists it as the author of How the shortage of skilled mechanics is being overcome by training the unskilled, and identifies the original publication as a 1918 Department of Labor work.

The publication centers on a major wartime problem: too few skilled mechanics for expanding industrial production. Contemporary catalog information describes the work as showing how factories and public bodies tried to solve that shortage through fast, practical training programs rather than traditional long apprenticeships.

Because this was a committee section rather than a single named writer, little personal biographical information exists in the usual sense. What remains most notable is the document itself, which reflects a World War I-era effort to organize labor, industry, and education around emergency national production.