"Category C Employee"

means an employee engaged in any one or more of the following capacities or duties in the knitting division:

"colouring mass-measurer"

means an employee who, under the supervision of a dyer, mass-measures dye-stuff or other chemicals;

"cutter"

means an employee who by means of a power-driven cutting machine, knife or shears is engaged in cutting garment lengths, fronts, backs or sleeves of fully fashioned garments or trimmings, who marks or cuts attachments, points of necks or armholes or trimmings and who may use a template for this purpose;

"dyer’s assistant"

means an employee who, under the supervision of a dyer, is engaged in mass-measuring or mixing colour substances or attending or operating machines used in the dyeing or finishing processes;

"handyperson"

means an employee in a knitting establishment who does minor repairs or adjustments to machinery or equipment, other than machinery or equipment directly used in the manufacture of the products of an establishment, and who may effect minor repairs or renovations to buildings but who does not perform work normally done by an artisan;

"knitting machine operator"

means an employee who operates one or a set of knitting machines and who may change needles, sliders and sinkers and straighten tricks, including chain and card control and running on after press-offs;

"linker"

means an employee who is engaged in operating a linking machine for toeclosing of stockings or socks or for joining parts of fully fashioned garments or attaching trimmings to fully fashioned garments or parts of garments;

"loader of magazine or comb"

means an employee engaged in the transferring of stitches onto the needles of a bar or magazine;

"mender"

means an employee who is engaged in repairing knitting faults in garments or parts of garments, blanks, stockings or socks;

"overlocker"

means an employee who operates an overlocking machine;

"plain sewer"

means an employee engaged solely in performing by hand one or more of the following operations:—

"sewing machinist"

means an employee who by means of a sewing machine is engaged in any operation in the making of clothing including button, buttonhole and hemming machinist;

"shaper of fully fashioned garments"

means an employee in a knitting establishment who, by means of a power-driven cutting machine, knife or shears is engaged in cutting garment lengths, fronts, backs or sleeves of fully fashioned garments or trimmings, who marks or cuts attachments, points of necks or armholes or trimmings and who may use a template for this purpose;

"warper"

means an employee who prepares warps from cones or bobbins for a warp knitting or similar machine and prepares the beam;

"wrap knitter"

means an employee operating one or a set of warp knitting machines and who may correct faults, change or straighten needles, fill bars or make minor adjustments to such machines.

"Category D Employee"

means an employee engaged in any one or more of the following capacities or duties in the knitting division:

"backwinder"

means an employee who recovers yarn from a knitted article by winding it back onto a bobbin, comb, magazine or spool;

"boiler attendant"

means an employee who, under supervision, maintains the water level and steam pressure in a boiler and who may make, maintain and draw the fire in such boiler;

"cleaner"

means an employee engaged in cutting or trimming off loose ends of cotton or cloth left on garments or parts of garments by previous operators;

"despatch packer"

means an employee who, under the supervision of a despatch clerk, is engaged in packing, assembling, marking, addressing and mass-measuring goods for despatch or delivery;

"draw threader"

means an employee who separates knitted articles by removing the drawthread;

"examiner"

means an employee who examines finished garments for quality;

"floorwalker or runner"

means an employee engaged in carrying garments or parts of garments from one place to another within the workplace;

"general worker"

means an employee who is engaged in one or more of the following duties:

"grader or sorter"

means an employee who is engaged in sorting or grading hosiery into pairs according to length and size or sorting trimmings, materials or parts of fully-fashioned garments;

"mender of socks"

means an employee who is engaged in repairing knitting faults in garments or parts of garments, blanks, stockings or socks;

"operator"

means an employee who is an operator of a—

"parcel maker"

means an employee engaged in closing or sealing parcels and cartons prior to despatch and delivery;

"presser"

means an employee who is engaged in the ironing or pressing of finished garments by hand or machine, excluding open steam pressing or boarding of garments on automatic continuous steam belts;

"pre-or post boarder or former"

means an employee who is engaged in placing or removing stockings, socks or garments on or from forms;

"sampler"

means an employee engaged in the making up of sample cards;

"seamer"

means an employee who is engaged in joining seams in stockings or socks by means of a seaming machine;

"turner"

means an employee engaged in turning out or over the edges of collars, facings, bands, cuffs, pockets or flaps whether by hand or machine;

"winder"

means an employee who is engaged in operating a yarn-winding machine;

"yarn changer" (pig tailor)

means an employee who is responsible for loading and unloading the yarn on knitting machines, or an employee who brings yarn to and from the machines, removes fabric and cleans the machines and may stop the machine to change the yarn and may restart the machine only if he or she stopped the machine for the purpose of changing the yarn and shall not carry out any other functions of the knitting machine operator.