New-York tribune., 1900-03-18
KRUPPS' GREAT WORKS.
,cHrENED TREATMENT OF A VAST
POPULATION.
,uLAGEs GATHERED AROUND T.
WHERE woRKMEN LIVE

,.,,r,cFs GATHERED AROUND ESSEN
WHERE woRKAiEN LIVE
,as item from Berlin to the effect that an
.--,,oro If the Krupp works at Essen had Of
80 "a sell 10 the United States Naval Attache
:. 19ar7in several oC tile secret Krupp processes
- ,,,pcb surprise in circles where the Krupp
s..rlisb77ant Is known. II is nothing unusual
- and traitors iu large manufacturing estab-
,,st,,anrs and rival institutions frequently stoop
:, ,,sa these desrad-i persons but the relations
t.+,raan the employer and the workman at the
vrnnn establishment have always been 50
,,iendlv that the appearance Of the TRAITOR
caused much suru,.-e ana Indignation.
capfsin A E. Tiark"sski, Of the German
army who is the kruqt representative in the
United States, said
THE people who work at Essen look upon the
vorks as though each one had personal IN
.erest in The plant. An agitation to bring about
trouble or to cause an uprising could not succeed
and the man who would do or say anything
against the interests Of the concern could not
continue 10 exist there. In all the years since
the business grew from an Insignificant work
shop to the present time. when It gives employ
nent in the factories proper to about 1000
hands. there has never been a strike, and the
employees realize the worth Of the words of
Alfred Krupp which were his life motto, Der
Zweck der Arbeit s9!l das Gemeinw OIL sein'
tThe object of our labor should be the welfare of
Tie community
H4Of these workmen. ranging from the
skilled laborer 10 the scientist, p per cent have
been in the concerns employ between fifteen
and thirty years and - per cent between five
and fifteen years"
a MODEL FOR OTHER EMPLOYERS.
The League for Social Service, whose pictures
Of scenes near the Krupp works are published
herewith points to The establishment as one after
which other large employers should fashion
their course with q view to bettering the con-
dition of the employed and improving the bust
ness Of the employee The city of Essen, which
has grown UP around he works, contains many
notable architectural features in the way Of
monuments and beautiful buildings, but there
probably nothing in the place which i'm
presses the visitor So much as a little house
With tile covered roof overhanging the marrow
door and the two little windows Alfred Krupp,
the son Of the founder. wrote this memorial in
scripton for the little building:
This Is the small house into which We moved
IN le22, after my father had without success
sacrificed 10 the invention IF the manufacture
o. cast steel a considerable fortune and his
whole stock OF vitality and health; this was the
only dwelling II The family. where / lived
through number of years Of suffering and sor-
roE; whence. in 1876 my father was carried to
me grave; whers. .H he attic. l have passed
hundreds Of s.e.. .--ss nights, in trembling
anxiety and Win j.. hope for the future. In
us house, after -lUaL successes. my hopes were
realized and / have ~irce seen the fuIfIment Of
=! b0iGest expectations. I desire that this
muse shall De keIt intact as long as the factory
s1se II order that my successors as well as
User may behold mis- memorial of the origin
y me great works May this house give courage
lhe iaint hearted and help him to persevere;