Ist Issue, November 3 B.C. LUMBER WORKER 5

T ATTRACTIVE OFFICE STAFF of
Local 1-357, left to right — Miss
Dophne Silk, Mrs. Peggy Draper,
Mrs, Bernice Kirk.

2 SANDING MACHINES at the Mo-
hawk Handle Company, which are
capable of sanding fifty thousand
handles a day, The machines are
electronicly controlled and haye a
series of sand paper belts running
from rough to yery smooth.

3 GEORGE BAWTINHEIMER, operat-
ing the handle turning machine at
the Mohawk Handle Company Ltd.,
New Westminster. This machine
fashions the round handles from the
rough lumber and is the first step
in the process of making brooms
and mops.

4 HANDLE SORTING TABLE at the
Mohawk Handle Company is located
at the back of the sanding mach-

j ines. Employees Doris Dobbs and

j Emily Bayne ‘are shown here sort-

She Ee ing the handles into, their various

Mf grades.

3 ee : | SFREIGHTERS LOADING LUMBER
i. 3 aN A, at the docks in the Port of New

e ‘ Westminster, whose docking fac-
ilities will soon be enlarged by the
addition of new wharves,

6 JIMMY: ABRAMS left, and Irving
Nelson, at the nailing machine of
the Westmii Shook Company
Ltd. The machine attaches the nails
: ; | to the box in the finished opera-
} «Se : § tion.
7 WRAPPED INTO BUNDLES, these
finished handles at the Mohawk

Lumber Company are awaiting ship-
ment across the country.

bio RATHER G0 BAREFOOT
Smee some stot is DAVIONS /

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Shoe Manufacturing Co
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