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Europe's flint glass industry (1921)

Clarke, William Patrick, 1874-, American Flint Glass Workers' Union · Toledo, Kraus and Schreiber · leaf 23

An illustration from Europe's flint glass industry, 1921, leaf 23
nd of the marvelor. 14 The marvelor is about four feet in length. The workmen fol-low one another like bottle blowers, three blowing in eachmould. They formerly worked three shifts in this plant, whilenow they work only one shift of seven hours; 8 to 12 and 1 to 4.The pots hold only 800 pounds and… … A cone-shaped furnace at Lemington, England, where the workers arerequired to work within the brick cone. Strange as it may appear, the management at Lemington in-formed us that his production is greater with one shift than itformerly was when they operated the plant on a three shiftsystem. Before…

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