ment, ten hours a day and six days a week. In the large locomotive department, twelve hours a day and seven days a week, with the exception of the machinists, who work ten hours a day and six days a week. In the brick-masons, stone-masons, pattern-shop, car-shop, paint-shop, carpenter-shop, plumbing-shop, smith-shop, roof-shop, roll-shop, boiler-shop, wagon-shop, stone-quarry, railroad-repairs, teamsters, farm, and riggers and slaters departments, all work ten hours a day and six days a week. In the pumping stations all work twelve hours a day and seven days a week. In the air plant the engineers work twelve hours a day and seven days a week, and the foremen and repairmen ten hours a day and six days a week. The police force work twelve hours a day and seven days a week. In the mechanical department foremen and common laborers work ten hours a day and six days a week, and the pumpers twelve hours a day and seven days a week. In the brickyard all employees work ten hours a day and six days a week with the exception of engineers and firemen, who work twelve hours a day and seven days a week. In the small locomotive department all work ten hours a day and six days a week, with the exception of engineers, brakemen, and cranemen, who work twelve hours a day and seven days a week. In the rolling mills all employees work twelve hours a day and six days a week, with the exception of machinists, lamp men, common laborers, engineers, foremen, and repairmen, who work ten hours a day and six days a week. In the steel foundry all work ten hours a day and six days a week, with the exception of gasmen and helpers and millwrights and helpers, who work twelve hours a day and six days a week. In the mold foundry and general foundry all work ten hours a day and six days a week. In the Bessemer steel mill grade boys, test boys, ingot scalemen, clean-ups, car greasers, foremen, skull crackers and helpers, and cupola-drop men work twelve hours a day and six days a week, and the metal gang, coke and limestone gang, water tenders, firemen and ashmen, twelve hours a day and seven days a week. The tag boys work eight hours a day and six days a week. The carpenters, crop ends, cinder trackmen, and common laborers work ten hours a day and six days a week, and the roof hands, cart helpers, gannister crushers, dump hands, and brick wheelers work ten hours a day and seven days a week. In the Blooming mill the foremen, repair men, and wipers work ten hours a day and seven days a week; the common laborers and gas lighters work ten hours a day and six days a week; the crane hands, chipping hammers, forge engineers, shear hands, pumpers, roll pitmen, and gas makers and helpers, twelve hours a day and six days a week; the oilers, water tenders, firemen, and ashmen, eight hours a day and six days a week. In the billet mill the scale wheelers, shear men, layouts, painters, tablemen, firemen, ashmen, pumpmen, engineers, furnace door boys, conveyor men, crane hands, hotbed engineers, and hot saw engineers work twelve hours a day and six days a week; the machinists and repairmen, ten hours a day and seven days a week; the clean-ups, laborers, roll setters' helpers, and greasers, ten hours a day and six days a week; the gas makers, twelve hours a day and seven days a week, and the roll setters eight hours a day and six days a week. In the axle and forge department all work twelve hours a day and six days a week, with the exception of the shop sweeper and common laborers, who work ten hours a day and six days a week. All of the floating or unskilled labor work ten hours a day and six days a week. The following table shows, by departments and occupations of steel plant No. 1, the hours of work per day and days worked per week. This plant, it will be recalled, is the largest in the community, and employs on an average about 18,000 men: |