AN IDEAL FACTORY.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17985, 31 January 1924, Page 2

AN IDEAL FACTORY.

SYDNEY EXPERIMENT.

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SYDNEY, January .24,

spoke of the nobility af labour and tbe joy in it. "We may not always agree with him, especially in the dogdays; but some employers at least are trying to make it a joy for ever for their hands, and In the control of contented staffs they are probably saving themselves thousands of pounds. A factory.at Alexandria, one of the industrial suburbs of Sydney, comes to mind. More than 100 girls are employed there m making matches, and it is a guinea to a gooseberry that you could not get them to change their jobs, Listen to this. In the luncheon hour, tli6 management not only supplies the hands with hot soup every day in a commodious luncheon room, but they also provide a special pianist, so that the girls can .dunce or sing, just as their fancy dictates, when the meal is over. The management Imve don© even farther. They havo had three splendid ironite tennis courts laid down at the back of the factory, bordered with gras3 and trees, and with little shade kiosks scattered about, so that the girls can indulge in tennis if they wish. Eighteen months ago, when the courts were put down, none of the jgirls could handle a racquet. In fact, they probably regarded tennis as tho preserve of the aristocracy. But with a practice alley for beginners, they have become tennis fans, and they rattle off the jargon of the game as well as any seasoned playei. Then, after a game on tho courts there mo hot and cold showers for the girls before they resume work, or before they leave the courts after work in the evening. The manager says that after in most countries of the world he finds that the Australian, if well gives better results than the average worker abroad. We only want golf now for the wharf lumpers and the municipal councils' road men, and limousines to take us all home from work, and the world vriJl he quite a bright old place.