Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-03-16

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fUundries for this uiCn employed ther.
aud their families The writer s1ys The
Philsdciphia tedgef. Mr. s NJ Lindsay
furnishes en object lesson That may wtil
he commended 70 employers II labor ii
this country The krurp works enpl,e
10 600 men and with their farui
numbering over 50.OOU constituting thc
bulk Of the population of the town Of
Essen. while over 5000 are located st
various branch works. and the total
number benefited By their numerous
charitable aud philar,hroVic enterprises
is estimated at $500 workmcn. and
with their families $500 persons
The Krupp works were started in q
very humble way in 1910, and it was not
until the iiftics that cast steel. tneir spe-
cial product. attained such universal
use and the works began their rapid
growth and steady increase. IRE Kruppe
themselves say that their numerous In
stitutiOus for their wOrkmen and their
families are based first on their own
business interests. Would there were
more such employers whose selfshness
took the same directionl
Their successful efforts to raise the
condition of their workmen have been
made in various ways--the building OF
dwellings rented at fair rates and sold
on easy terms: cooperative stores; ac-
commodations for boarding and lodging
| unmarried workmen; their treatment in
sickness and the prevention Of disease:
insurance against accident and sickness
and pension funds, in anticipation and
| largely in excess of the severe require
ments of recent German legislation on
! the subject: savings banks, common and
| industrial schools, the education of ap-
prentices, the training of young girls in
housekeeping. humanitarian rules in fac
| tory work, liberal help for religious
teaching and charity.
The Krupps have built over 1000
| houses-from frame dwellings of two
rooms. renting at fifteen dollars year,
up to six room houses, renting at eighty
| dollars year. They have expended
over s., ,000, 600 on them, earning about 2
per cent on the investment, but this, with
much more, has been spent in benehting
| the working classes in other ways.
The cooperative stores managed by
the Krupps at their own risk include
fifteen retail grocery stores. nine branch
stores, with one main store for general
merchandise, shoe factory with three
stores, a hardware store, a mill and bak.
cry with six bread stores. slaughter
house with seven retail meat stores, two
! clothing establishments, seven restau-
rants, a wine store, an ice company. q
coffee house, brush factory, a laundry,
a weekly market for fresh vegetables, a
coffee roasting establishment--in them
nearly 500 persons were employed. wild
ows, or daughters of workmen.
There is a boarding house for the un'
married workmen, where lodging and
food are supplied at twenty cents day
In 1870 Alfred Krupp built a hospital
for sick and wounded soldiers. and since
| the Franco German war it has been used
for their workmen and their families
they are cared for at the price of thirty
eight cents a day for men, thirty cents a
day for women and twenty-five cents
for children. There is u large bathing
establishment, where 5000 free baths
were given last year, and bath tickets
are sold for 2i cents apiece. The insur'
ance funds against accident and death
and for pensions have been largely sup
plemented by the Krupps in addition tc
the strict requirements of the German
laws. Primary and advanced and tech
nical schools are maintained, and the
churches of all denominations are large
| 10 crnportad nv the KrllDDs