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Glass Letter Cutting

This is the cutting out of glass letters, and includes the selection of the glass, and cutting, bevelling, and polishing. This is the most skilled branch for men and the best paid. The forms of letters are drawn on a sheet of paper; the apprentice has squares of glass which he places over the drawn letters and traces the shapes on to the glass. The form of the letters having been traced on to the surface of the glass, the squares are sent into another department to be gilded by girls; this done, they are returned to be cut into shape by a skilled workman. This part of the work requires great skill and care. The letters when shaped are passed on to men to be smoothed, rouged if necessary, bevelled, and polished. The smoothers, bevellers, and polishers, all sit at tubs containing water, and do their work by dipping the part on which they are working into water and holding it against a revolving wheel.

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RULES

1. One days docked wages for broken letters
2. One weeks docked wages for spoiled words
3. No etching
4. Shower before entering tubs. Clean toenails.
5. Standard factory issue togs only in tubs
6. Menstruating dippers wear rubber ("A Issue") togs
7. No "drifting"
8. Letters to be rouged only per instruction. NOTICE: ROUGING IS NOT STANDARD PRACTICE.
9. Rota for lunch-breaks, tea-breaks, toilet-breaks, and cigarette-breaks:
             Smoothers 1; Bevellers 2; Polishers 3; Dippers 4.
10. ONLY the TSTM has business in Gilding. NO APPRENTICES in Gilding EVER.
11. No round-the-clock shifts allowed without the permission of:
                                  A. Juzsef, Foreman