The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-04-17
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At tie Bottle Machine faetory-fuE-
naces No. S and are TO be TON down
IN about two WeebG 70 be femooe4ed
tn~the same manner as furnace no.
which was IN the process OF rebuild
ing Tor number Of weeks, and IS new
about ready for work In No. I far
mace It has taken week Tor the Old
glass to reheat and another week TO
fIll in with glass ingredients. It takes
several tons of material to I'LL = far
mace Of this kind. This furnace VIII
start making bottles "wednesday or
Thursday.
IN the vicinity Of furnace No. 6~a
printed, framed poem demands notices
It runs as follows:
How do sou tackle your work each
day? Are you scared OF the Job you
find? Do you grapple the Gask comes
your way2 With confident, easy
mind? Do you stand right up to the
work ahead. or fearfully pause to view
it? Do You start TO toll with sense
! OF dread, or feel hFtSou're going to
do it:
! you can. But 9ouu never accomplish
more. IL you're afraid of yourself
young man; there's little for you in
store. For failure comes from the In
side tIrSt.S It's there, II We only knew
it. And sou can. win though you face
the worst II you feel that you're going
! to doiit.
success is found in the soul OF you.
and not in. the realm OF luck. The
world viii furnish the work TO do, but
you must provide the pluck. You can
do whatever you think you can It's
all in the way you view It, It's all in
| the start that you Gnake.. your man.
You must feel that you're going to
lido it"
II you pass through the bottle fac
tory you will occasionally catch a
young man reading this poem 1t
may have something to do with the
work that is being done there.
The bottle machines are never idle.
Men work eight hour shifts and as one
man said today. II can go to sleep
when my sleep time comes though
night for me comes at different
7 to close my eyes. could 90 to sleep
4 man does go to sleep at his ma
chine-thouSh only for a moment.
What happens II you do?" vas ask
cd today. "Oh, we either get bawled
out by the foreman or get laughed at"
came the reply. The steady. rthymic
, hum Of the machinery might very cas-
| lily put man to sleep
Interest is kept up for the men in
| the bonus given for every extra gross
of bottles turned out by the workers.
A blackboard with place for every
days work is placed beside each bot
| tie machine. In each space is written
! the number of bottles turned out daily.
Every man has turn at every ma
chine and so has equal chance at ev-
cry bonus Of which there are different
kinds. Each bottle machine turns out
! different work. Sometimes thirty bot
! ties minute can be turned out-de-
pending on the kind and size OF bot
| tIe-sometimes as many as eighty-five
a minute-(the eighty-five d minute
are made on machine making two
bottles at once.) Today No. 8 ma
| chine was making one Of Heinzes 81
! and all over seventy gross got bonus
| Of SIX cents on the gross. No S ma,
! chine got four and one half cents on
! the gross foz all over a certain mum
Der. Some machines turn out sixty-six
bottles minute. Some fortytour.
! Every eight hours-when a new
shift comes on-a bottle is broken in
the steady line going through the tenn,
! pering lyres-and marker is placed
there instead. This signifies where
one worker leaves of Each man has
! to lose credit for bottles unfit for use,
! A foreman stands over every two ma
chimes and IT We cant find him read,
lily and are now at the worh-we some
times lose a lot of bottles when some
| thing goes wrong that we don't know
how to fit" However. losing bottles
does not affect regular three dollar
a day wage.
Some considerable art IS necessary
in making bottIes-even though all the
work is done by machinery. A man
must know how to regulate his heat.
He must know how to repair and fix
different parts which he learns from
his foreman and as a whole must be
entire master OF his job ''Some men
are SO expert that they work up to
foremeN in no time and a foreman
makes four or five dollaCI a day with
an additional bonus on the extra work
Of his men,"
| Just now work on grape Juice bot,
| ties is going on. These bottles will
! be used for next tall'S grape harvest
and as transportation is very uncer
tain, the work IS one the way even
now. Some Of them will go clear to
the Pacific coast.
About three hundred gross bottles
are being turned out day at the bot,
tie machine plant.
Shipping lebor-scarce for some
time-has been supplied to about fif,
ty per cent needed. "Just how much
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