Six years. I didn't make buttons the whole time I was at Prestige. I
started making buttons; that was my job. And I didn't make buttons too
long, and they put me to inspecting the covers that the sewers sewed.
And I was the inspector. And then when the tie-up girl would be out, I
had to learn to tie up the covers, assemble all the parts. I had to know
all the parts that went in a piece of furniture, and I'd have to put the
cambric in the cover. That's that dust piece that goes underneath. And
all the parts you had to get in the cover and get the right ticket on
it. And it had group numbers, and you had to be sure you got it in the
right group. That was the job I did after I worked there a year or so. I
started inspecting. Then Prestige moved out in a new building, and the
sewers would sew and let their covers all fall on the floor. Well, I had
to stoop right down, just continually bending, picking them up. And my
back started bothering me, and I started hunting me another job. I got a
job at Conover Chair. And there I had tickets to get the covers up for
the sewers to sew, and then I'd tie them up after the sewers would sew
them, to start with, because they didn't have but eight sewers. But as
the years went on, they kept enlarging the plant and hiring more sewers,
so I didn't do that too awful long till I just started getting out the
covers
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tying them up and gave getting out the covers to another girl. You have
to take these tickets and hunt out the number. Every cover has a number,
and every group. It's like loads, and they have load numbers, and you'd
have to hunt the covers. You had to know the fabric; you had to go by
the color and get the covers out and get them in a box and put all the
things that a sewer needed to sew that cover in that box and get them
ready for the sewers to sew. They're on production, and they want
everything in there. They had inspectors to inspect them part of the
time, and then I tied them up. I helped to inspect some, but as a usual
thing it kept me busy tying them up. I didn't have time to inspect. Then
before I retired, they quit inspecting, and they just let the sewers sew
them and take it for granted they were sewed right.