Employees include joiners and helpers. A good joiner must be able to read drawings and blue prints and when necessary he must be able to lay out his work on paper.
Among the common machines used are planers, handsaws, circular saws, mortisers, and tenoners.
As a rule the joiner shop is protected from the weather and the work is not heavy. The work often requires considerable standing and walking.
PLAN No. 1035. PIPE SHOP
Here all plumbing and pipe-fitting work is done. The shop is usually inclosed and protected from the weather. The work requires considerable walking and standing, much bending, reaching, and stooping. In repair and construction work a great deal of work has to be done on the ship in all sorts of places and often under very difficult working conditions.
Plumbers, pipe fitters, and helpers are employed. A good pipe fitter must be able to read blue prints and drawings and must know how to make various calculations such as figuring out lengths of pipe on various jobs.
PLAN No. 1036. FOUNDRY
All castings are made in the foundry. The shop is usually more or less open to the weather, and the work requires a good deal of walking and standing.
Among the men employed are molders, who place the patterns in the sand, and make the sand molds into which the melted metal is poured; cupola furnace tenders, who operate the furnace in which the iron is melted; and foundry shippers, who clean up castings. In addition, helpers and laborers are employed.