. India rubber world. is fin-ished, there is no fumbling, no repeating, no wasted mate-rials; every motion counts. There was nothing which bothered me more than the ex-treme stickiness of the materials with which \ worked. Theuppers, for instance, if allowed to roll up would stick to- roU the stiff, thick rubber sole so it joins nicely with theupper. When this has been accomplished, the place whereupper and sole meet is run over by a stitcher. 1 had now learned the elements of making rubbers. ButI could as yet get up no speed, and it is speed that bringsmoney. The girls are paid according to t
. India rubber world. is fin-ished, there is no fumbling, no repeating, no wasted mate-rials; every motion counts. There was nothing which bothered me more than the ex-treme stickiness of the materials with which \ worked. Theuppers, for instance, if allowed to roll up would stick to- roU the stiff, thick rubber sole so it joins nicely with theupper. When this has been accomplished, the place whereupper and sole meet is run over by a stitcher. 1 had now learned the elements of making rubbers. ButI could as yet get up no speed, and it is speed that bringsmoney. The girls are paid according to the number of shoesthey make, i. c, by piece-work. Some girls are of such slow-acting nervous organization that they never can developspeed. For instance, one hard-working girl near me afterlive years experience could earn no more than $5 to $6 perweek. Near her worked another girl who was able to earn$12 per week. As for myself, I feel that after a few monthsI could have gotten into the $10 class, but might add, too,. M.\kinc-Up Room in a Rubber Shoe F.\ct(irv. gether and consequently have to be scrapped, i. c. sentback to the rolling room as raw material. So I was watchedand directed when it came to putting on uppers. The pre-pared sheet of rubber had to be lifted quickly, the front-topgrasped between the teeth, and one side held in each hand,all without wrinkling. Then it had to be lowered over theupright last, and had to be placed exactly in the right placeon the lining. Then it must be pressed down evenly andsmoothly. This sounds easy, but a curling piece of stickyrubber is worse to manage than a schoolroom full of unrulyboys. The last process is putting on the outer soles and the uppers have been smoothed out on the last andthe whole gassed, the outer sole is put on. This requiresmore muscle than any other process, i*. being very hard to how glad 1 am that years of this struggle for speed in arubber shoe factory do not stretch ahead of me. I noticed a great
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