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to walk for about twenty minutes more before I arrive at the place where I work. From that you can gain some idea of the immensity of the plant. They employ about 22,000 (yes - twenty-two [[underline]] thousand [[/underline]]) people in this Schenectady works alone. It is huge.

Yesterday I was turned over to the tender mercies of one of the men to be shown how to do my first job. It was on a shaper, and one of his first remarks to me was this: "Now, if you don't do this job just right, you're liable to get your head knocked off." That was very encouraging, and I waded into the job with