Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-12-29
KRUPP AND EsS EN-.
The Industries aud the City the Krupps
Have Ituildeu.
rhila. Ledger.

Ihila. Ledger
The last number of the ANNALS of the
American Academy of Political aud Social
Science" gives an admirable summary of
the work done at the krupp foundries for
the men employed there and their fami-
lies. The writer, Mr.. s, NJ. Lindsay fur
nishes an object lesson that may well be
commended to employers Of labor in this
country. The krupp works employs
10000 men, and with their families. nlim-
herring over $4,000, constituting the bulk Of
the population of the town of Essen, while
over 5000 are located at various branch
works, and the total number benefited by
their numerous charitable and plIilan.
thrOpc enterprises is estimated at 300
workmen, and, with their families 81 800
persons. The krnpp works We're started
III very humble way in lSlO and ii was
not until tho iittics that cast steel, their
special product, attained such universal
use, and the works began their rapid
growth and steady increase The Krupps
themselves say that their numer-
Gus institutions for their workmen
and their families are based first
on their own business interests. Would
there were more such employers whose
seltShness look the same direction! Their
successful efforts to raise the condition Of
their wurkmen have been made in various
ways; the building of dwellings rented at
fair rates and sold on easy terms; cooper
atlve stores; accommodations for boarding
and lodging unmarried workmen, their
treatment i'll sickness, and the prevention
OF disease insurance against accident aud
sickness, and pension funds, in anticipa-
tlon ana largely i'll excess of the severe re.
quifements of recent German legislation
on the subject; savings banks, common and
industrial schools the education Of APP
prentices. the training Of young girls in
housekeeping, humanitarian rules in fac
hpl ia al
ing, and charity. The krupps have built
over 1000 houses-from frame dwellings
OF two rooms, renting at Sl5 year, up TO
slX-room houses, renting at $50 year;
they have expended over S3OO1,U10 on
them. earning about . per cent on the i'll
pestment. but this. with much more, has
been spent in beneilting the working pOpu-
latl0n IN other ways,
Inc cooperative stores managed by the
hrupps ut their own risk include 10 retail
grocery stores, nine branch stores with
one main store, for general merchandise,
shoe factory with three stores, a hard
ware store, mill and bakery with six
| bread stores, Il slaughter house with seven
retail meat stores. two clothing establish
| mentS, seven restaurants, n wine store. an
| ice company, n coffee house, Il brush
| factory, n laundry, Il weekly market for
| fresh vegetables, n coffee roasting cstab.
| lishment--ln them nearly 800 persons
were employed widows or daughters Of
| wOTkmen. There is Il boarding house for
| the unmarried wOrkmen, where lodging
and food are supplied at 20 cents day In
| $50 Alfred krupp built a hospital for sick
| and wounded soldiers, and since the Franco
| German war it has been used for their
| worl;men and their familes-they are
| cared for at the price of IS cents Il day for
men. ~ CENTS for women, and Is cents for
children. There is large bathing
establishment, where G,OOO free baths
| were given last year and bath
| tickets are sold for y cents apiece.
| The insurance funds against accident
| and death and for pensions have
been largely supplemented by the krupps,
| ~ addition to the strict requirements of
the German laws. Primary and advanced
| and technical schools are maintained, and
| the churches Of all denominations are
| largely supported by the krunps, who saw
4 that all this is done to enable them to ex-
| tend and improve their work by making
| their workmen sharers i'll their prosperity.
| The details of the accident and death and
| pension insurance supplied by Mr. Lindsay
| are too numerous to be abridged IN the
| Ledger, but our readers will find it we'll
| worth their while to study them in the
| November number of the iHHdiS The
| characteristic feature OF German patri-
| arehal methods is well shown in the com.
| pulsory requirements that workmen shall
ayall themselves OF these privileges and
advantages. In our own freer system be-
tween employers and employed there is
| no need or room for such logislatiun but
the example of the Krupps both before
| and after liermany passed its strict laws
on these subjects, may well be commended
| to our owa great manufacturers The
charity that begins at home III the way in
which the krupps have spent their money
| here.