Agriculture - Barns - Farming - Livestock
Oct. 10, 1953 - Feather Pluckesr fear machine rivals strike in London's east end: Ten popular because their firm had introduced a Plucking Machine from the United States. The men are members of the 84 strong London Poultry Dresser's Association and fear that their jobs may become redundant. Their boss, Mr. I. Grossman of Lewis and Co. Cobb Street, London E. said that the machines pluck and clean 120 birds an hour while a plucker does about 200 a day rough plucked not clean. Photo shows operating one of the feather plucking machines which caused the strike of feather pluckers in London's East End
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13167026
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46150847
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(c) Keystone Pictures USA/ZUMAPRESS.com/Mary Evans
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