LOOKING AFTER KRUPP'S MEN.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13795, 16 June 1915, Page 7

LOOKING AFTER KRUPP'S MEN.

* _ .» Mr Maurice Verne describes in Le Gaulois a risc he; was able to pay to the Kmpp Ordnance Factory at Esseu in January- For many months wor* has been continued day and night. A Ji fixed hours a halt is called,' mid the workmen rush to slake their thirst with coffee, which is lavishly supplied by the authorities. At other times milk is distributed with equal liberality.. A "Times" correspondent states: — ''A number or doctors are always on duty, going from one set of furnaces to ftnother. to see tho effect produced by. the noxious gases set free, and to administer such palliative's or remedies as are ■.•oquWi.-far it Jrequeiitiy happeris that tho workers are u:i«ible- to retain solid food. In extreme cases hypodermic injections aro resorted to m the case of the most exhausted. . '•II may bo o-s vv-eli re mil that-the fe\ov'"<\ a'f'.i-vity And er.^ornoss of tlm woik'iien are stimulated or s.ustained by Hi" kuo-vipdrze- that at the end of each year, or half-year, they will all receive their share of tihe profits oi tho groat Krupp Company.'.'