Canadian foundryman (1921) . en a lotof new equipment and a demonstratorfor a few days to teach the men how tooperate each machine, but not a man inour employ had ever made a mold on amachine, nor understood rigging up formachines. I advised that we engage an instruc-tor for the molding machine department—one who would teach the beginners andadjust or repair the machines when outof order. He should also be capable oflaying out the patterns or match plates,and such a man would be worth hisweight in gold, but as he demanded moresalary than I was drawing, both Smithand Jones refused. Now a moldin
Canadian foundryman (1921) . en a lotof new equipment and a demonstratorfor a few days to teach the men how tooperate each machine, but not a man inour employ had ever made a mold on amachine, nor understood rigging up formachines. I advised that we engage an instruc-tor for the molding machine department—one who would teach the beginners andadjust or repair the machines when outof order. He should also be capable oflaying out the patterns or match plates,and such a man would be worth hisweight in gold, but as he demanded moresalary than I was drawing, both Smithand Jones refused. Now a molding machine with pat-terns well fitted, is a producer and costreducer but, if anything goes wrong,they produce bad castings just asquickly. No Mechanic for Foundry They expected me to fuss with sand-blast equipment and sand cutting ma-chines, and Jones even refused to trans-fer one of his mechanics to the foundrypayroll in order to keep the equipment inrepair, so I handed in my resignation. Both Smith and Jones knew my heart. PHOTO OF McLAIN ALUMNI TAKEN AFTER THE BANQUET AT FOUNDRYMENS CONVENTION, COLUMBUS. OHIO, OCT. 4--<. 192Q. January, 1021 C AN A DIA N FOUNDRY MA N 25 was in my work, that I owned my ownhome and that I would have to leavetown, so they refused to accept theresignation and gave me an increase insalary. They have not interfered but havegiven me no assistance, neither in experi-enced help or in obtaining apprenticesfor the foundry although they offer fancyinducements to machine shop appren-tices. I wanted to indenture apprentices?by paying them $10 a week and a bonus,and 1 would guarantee to make $30-a-week men out of them the first year, butnothing doing, as Smith and Jones onlygot $ per week as apprentices andcould not find it in their hearts to paymore than they received. Now our chemist is a fine, clean-cutfellow, but he did not spend six years incollege to become a melter, nor will hedevote much of his time to the foundry. He claims the cupola is in
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