0 a container in which iron is produced by blowing extremely hot air through a mixture of iron ore, coke, and limestone --
Members of the blast furnace men's union have approached me recently concerning some of their anxieties about this new arrangement.
They have not forgotten that even iron ore, which is what the blast furnace men make, was imported.
So far as blast furnace men are concerned, they have to work under very hard conditions.
I have no doubt this is affecting the miners, the blast furnace men and all those whose work is of the heaviest physical character.
Not one of them struck a blast furnace.
The blast furnace itself has a capacity of 10,000 tonnes a day.
The major factor here is the provision of a third blast furnace.
Factories and workshops in which no pitch other than blast furnace pitch is used are specifically exempted from the regulations.
