S.L. 594.10 Art. 5Processes to be learnt.

Employers engaging apprentices under this scheme shall undertake to teach them and to grant them facilities to learn the following processes: A. Shoe Manufacturing Operative.

(1) The apprentices shall spend the first four weeks of the probationary period in the acquisition of a general knowledge of the sequence of processes of production in all the denartments mentioned below.

(2) Thereafter they will be placed in any one of the following departments to learn the processes described, namely:

(a) Clicking Department

(i) Characteristics and identification of the principal types of leather and of fabrics used for outsides and linings.

(ii) Cutting of outsides and linings using clicker’s knife or clicking press.

(iii) Safety precautions in workshop.

(b) Bottom Stock and Preparation Department

(i) Characteristics and identification of the principal types of bottom leathers and other bottoming materials used.

(ii) Cutting of soles and heels.

(iii) Rounding and moulding of cut soles; grooving and channelling of soles; heel making.

(iv) Safety precautions in workshop.

(c) Making Department

(i) Pulling of uppers over last; lasting.

(ii) Attaching of soles to uppers; heel attaching.

(iii) Safety precautions in workshop.

(d) Finishing Department

(i) Trimming and scouring of soles and heels.

(ii) Edge setting.

(iii) Painting and polishing of bottoms.

(iv) Safety precautions in workshop. B. Shoe Uppers Maker

(1) Characteristics and identification of the principal types of leather and fabrics used for outsides and lining.

(2) Cutting of outsides and lining using the clicker’s knife.

(3) Thinning of edges; cementing and folding of edges; perforating of uppers; stitching of outsides and linings and closing of same; flattening of seams; making of eyelets and button holes and attaching buttons.

(4) Safety precautions in workshop. C. Shoemaker

(1) Characteristics and identification of the principa1 types of bottom leathers and other bottoming materials used.

(2) Cutting of soles, heels and other parts to make up the shoe.

(3) Preparing bottom stock for attachment; heel making.

(4) Matching of uppers with bottom stock parts; pulling of uppers over last; lasting; attaching of soles to uppers; attaching soles.

(5) Trimming and scouring of soles and heels; edge setting; painting and polishing of bottoms; cleaning of uppers.

(6) Safety precautions in workshop.