Job Description:

• 1) Removes stems from tobacco leaves to prepare tobacco for use as filler, binder, or wrapper for cigars, plug, or twist chewing tobacco: Strips leaf from stem, starting at tip end of leaf.

• 2) Spreads and stacks wrapper leaves in piles, keeping leaves separated into left- and right-hand books.

• 3) Places filler tobacco and stems in box or can.

• 4) May be designated according to tobacco stripped as Binder Stripper, Hand; Scrap Stripper, Hand; Wrapper Stripper, Hand.