Identifier: canadianwood22 (find matches)
Title: Canadian wood products industries
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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Subjects: Furniture industry and trade Woodworking industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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amount of lumber as had acareless operator. A careful check should be kept onall lumber going through this department. A standardmaximum waste allowance might be figured out andthe operator given credit for all savings effected be-low this figure and penalized where the waste exceededthe maximum allowance. This department plays a bigger part in the efficientoperation of a furniture manufacturing plant than mostfactory managers realize. It is the very foundationand heart of their whole production system. Anyweakness or looseness here will be reflected through-nut the whole organization. If the new year has come without you making anyresolves, then start at once and make this one, thatyou will use the saw guard over the saw, not put iton a nail in the wall. When a man has a band sawbreak, and a piece flies within a half-inch of h s nose,he realises that a wire guard over the wheels and aplate at the side of the saw is of some real use. 86 Canadian Woodworker and* Furniture Manufacturer
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Canadian Woodworker and Furniture Manufacturer Play the Game Hard but Play the Game Fair Furniture Manufacturers Association Holds Two Day Meeting—ManyPractical and Instructive Addresses Reports of Different Committees —Factory Managers, Superintendents and Foremen Have Interesting Session With the above caption for amotto the furniture manufacturersof Canada are away to a good startfor 1922. This is the slogan adopt-ed at the well attended annual meet-ing of the Furniture ManufacturersAssociation which was held in Tor-onto, on February 1st and 2nd. Anew departure was made this yearwhen the sessions of the first daywere thrown open to the factorymanagers, superintendents and fore-men for a discussion of their prob-lems and for the presentation ofinteresting and instructive addresseson subjects pertaining chiefly totheir fields. In opening the meeting, the chair-man, J. H. Baetz, touched on thevast strides which had been madeby the furniture industry during re-cent years. The day o

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