Inside Out Library · Explore

Crockery & glass journal (1875)

New York : G. Whittemore & Co. · leaf 462

An illustration from Crockery & glass journal, 1875, leaf 462
lar type. About 200 operatives are employed at the plant, whichruns day and night and seldom shuts down for morethan the two weeks provided for in the union agreement. Less than a score of the operatives are women andgirls, and fifty per cent, of the workers are skilled me-chanics, while the boys,… … Garble Camp 8? or specialists exceed the latter figure. Nine hours con-stitute a days work. A worker on one-quart bottles and helpers produceabout 300 finished bottles each turn. In the small sizeshe will run as high as 1,000 to the turn, and on the largestsizes may fall somewhat I)clo\v the v300…

Pottery · Glass · Glassware

Internet Archive · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from Crockery & glass journal

More like this