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ferent metals, such as workers in watch factories, knife and saw factories, in the making of jewelry goods, and utensils, and of instruments; silversmiths, goldsmiths, etc.

Sub-Department E.

MANUFACTURE OF WOOD ARTICLES.

This sub-department consists of organizations of workers employed in the manufacture of goods out of wood, or principally wood. It would embrace all workers in piano factories, planing mills, furniture factories, hotel and bar fixture factories; all workers in cooperage shops, in reed and rattan factories, box factories, etc. Of course, the workers of each of these industries would form a branch organization, embracing all the workers of one or more plants in which a given article is manufactured, for instance, in an industrial union of piano workers would be organized not only the wood workers, but also the metal workers, tuners, polishers, piano movers, etc., employed in that industry.

Sub-Department F.

MANUFACTURE OF CHEMICAL GOODS.

This sub-department comprises all workers employed:

  1. In the production of paint, drugs, rubber, gutta-percha, powder, dynamite, melinite, and all explosives; inks, perfumes, turpentine, celluloid, soaps, etc., including chemists engaged in these pursuits, all workers in drug stores and pharmacies, as clerks and salesmen, etc.
  2. All workers employed in the making of cellulose and paper, for printing and commercial purposes.

Sub-Department G.

MANUFACTURE OF FOODSTUFFS.

Made up of five industrial subdivisions, this sub-department is composed of workers engaged: I. In