A professional who tends machine that removes stems from leaves of tobacco and arranges stemmed leaves into books. Respnsibilities include:

• Starts machine and feeds leaf between rollers.
• Removes stacks of stripped leaves and ties leaves together.
• Separates leaves according to books of right or left halves.
• Dumps stems from machine into cans.
• May be designated according to type of tobacco stemmed as Binder Stripper, Machine; Wrapper Stripper.