Rich County Reaper | 1937-12-17 | Page 8 | Furniture Making Has No Age Bar for Its Workers

furniture making has no age bar for its workers grand rapids theres one in industry that throw a man on the the scrap heap because of age its furniture manufacturing an artisan really begin to get good until he turns the half century mark the consensus of manufacturers here in a plant with workers 27 per cent are between sixty and sev enty six 45 per cent between fifty and fifty nine in another hiring 17 per cent are between sixty one and sixty five those are fairly typical percentages most of the older employees are wood carvers and turning lathe men many have stood at the same bench 50 years or more and most of them own their tools an investment of from to in itself