SECURING WORKERS’ CO-OPERATION
One more thing of extreme importance—the employer should do everything possible to secure the co-operation of every worker in the glue-room, from the foreman down, in using proper methods. A little personal interest here will be rewarded a thousand fold. Provide your workmen with proper equipment, which in itself encourages cleanliness, and show them how the quality of work may be improved.
Show them that an unclean, ill-smelling glue-pot is unnecessary. Show them that there is a right way, and a wrong way, to prepare glue—and the right way is the way to use. Introduce system into the glue-room, as into every other part of the plant.
Many workers are still ignorant of modern glue methods. It is the duty of the employer to know what the correct practice is, and to see that it is employed in his glue-room.
CHAPTER V
MODERN GLUE-ROOM EQUIPMENT
With the increased knowledge of the nature of glue, and of proper methods of handling, has come a great improvement in apparatus used. The primitive way of melting glue was to heat it in an open pot over a fire. No heed was given to the loss through evaporation; nor to the scalding of glue; nor to the dirty condition of the glue-pot, and consequently contamination of fresh glue by the remains of former melts frequently occurred.
We say “primitive” methods advisedly in speaking of this old-time way of melting glue; for in the light of modern knowledge such methods belong to a day gone by. Yet some glue-rooms still use the old open glue-pot, and many others use apparatus which shows little, if any, improvement.
Modern glue-room appliances are now available for every glue-room, for every purpose. No glue user, large or small, can afford to use any but modern, scientific equipment. The saving in time, and in materials, and in improved quality of the completed work, and in the greater respect and increased efficiency of workers in the glue-room, all these things result in quickly repaying the increased outlay required.