Appendix B
The following table indicates some of the processes formerly reserved for men on which the factory inspectors found women employed by the end of 1915:
| INDUSTRY | PROCESSES |
|---|---|
| Linoleum | Attending cork grinding and embossing machines, |
| machine printing, attending stove, trimming | |
| and packing. | |
| Woodworking— | |
| Brush making | Fibre dressers, brush makers and on boring |
| machinery. | |
| Furniture | Light upholstery, cramping, dowelling, |
| glueing, fret-work, carving by hand or | |
| machine, staining and polishing. | |
| Saw mills | On planing, moulding, sand-papering, boring, |
| mortising, dovetailing, tenoning, turning and | |
| nailing machines. Taking off from circular | |
| saws; box making, printing and painting. | |
| Cooperage | Barrel making machines. |
| Paper mills | In rag grinding and attending to beating and |
| breaking machines, and to coating machines, | |
| calenders and in certain preparations and | |
| finishing and warehouse processes. | |
| Printing | Machine feeding (on platen machines and |
| on guillotines) and as linotype operators. | |
| Wire rope | On stranding and spinning machines. |
| Chemical works | Attending at crystallising tanks and for |
| yard work. | |
| Soap | As soap millers and in general work. |
| Paint | At roller mills, filling tins and kegs, |
| labeling and packing. | |
| Oil and cake mills | Trucking, feeding and drawing off from chutes, |
| attending to presses. | |
| Flour mills | Trucking. |
| Bread and biscuits | Attending to dough-breaks, biscuit machines, |
| and at the ovens assisting bakers. | |
| Tobacco | Leaf cutting, cigarette making, soldering, |
| trucking and warehouse work. | |
| Rubber | At washing machines, grinding mills, dough |
| rolls, solutioning, motor tube making. | |
| Malting | Spreading and general work. |
| Breweries | Cask washing, tun-room work, beer bottling |
| and bottle washing. | |
| Distilleries | In the mill and yeast houses. |
| Cement | Attending weighing machines, trucking. |
| Foundries | Core making, moulding. |
| Tanning and currying | At the pits, in finishing and drying, and in |
| oiling, setting up, buffing and staining. | |
| Woolen mills | Beaming and overlooking, attending drying |
| machines, carding, pattern weaving. | |
| Jute mills | On softening machines, dressing yarn, |
| calendering. | |
| Cotton mills | In blowing room on spinning mules, beaming, |
| twisting and drawing, and in warehouse. | |
| Hosiery | Folding and warehouse work. |
| Lace | Threading. |
| Print, bleach and | Beetling, assisting printers at machines, |
| dye works | warehouse processes. |