Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-09

out to the factory. II consists OF about
~ acres or enormous buildings with high
sm0kestacks above them. Everything
Is dirty and smoky, and / might also
say smelly for as You approach the es-
Enlistment the air IS laden with odors.
The streets between the buildings are
filled with tubs and hogsheads OF curl
GUS compounds, and everywhere you
look you see some new process going ON
with 8ooty- faced. or rather dye faced,
men WatChing Il. Here the men ara
hftIng great barrels Of liquid and pour
Ing Il into watts half filed with other
LIQUID, which Is being so stirred By ma
chlnery that II seethes and bubbles Ike
q Wltch's caldron As the new stuff
flows IN the color changes. Il becomes
a light yellow a brilliant scarlet. or
perhaps an ultra-marlne blue The men
know Just how much is needed, and also
that II there Is too much or too little
the whole caldron Of dye may be
spoiled
THE CHEMICAL LABORATORIES.
As ] went through these works ]
learned that dyemaking is an exact
science, Everything is the outcome OF
experiments. and the work is based on
chemical assays aud chemical combin-
atoms. There art about 50 chemists EN-.
played IN the laboratories They test
the materials used, and experiment on
new combinations. when a man dis.
covers anything IL IL at once reported
10 the firm and patented. and according
70 the contract all such discoveries be-
long 10 the firm. Consul General Guen-
then tells me that new patents are APP
piled for almost every week and ! un-
derstand that these people have a mon.
opoly of some branches Of the business,
These chemists 90 TO all parts Of the
world TO study the dyes used there.
They analyze the native dyes and imi-
tate them
Not only the Cassella firm, but all
German firms are very particular as to
their contracts with employees, The
laws here are largely In favor OF the
employer. and a clerk has little oppor-
iunity 70 60 into an establishment to
learn the business and start an oppo.
sition business Of his own Every con.
tract provides that the employe shall
not hire himself TO firms engaged In
the same business for certain num-
Der OF years after he has left. and that
lac shall not establish competitive
branch.
Such contracts are made with most
employees and business secrets are care.
fully protected
HOUSES FOR WORKINGMEN.
In this factory found the same de.
sire TO better the condition OF the
workingmen that exists at the Krupp
works and at the other German estab-
lishments ! have visited. The Cassel-
las have built houses for the best OF
their workiugmen. They have factory
kitchens at which meals are furnished
at just about cost, and they have show.
er baths where their men can have a
hot or cold douche when the days work
Is over.
was at the factory at noon, when
the soup was served II was taken from
caldrons, each holding hundreds OF gal
Ions. being ladled into bowls and buck.
cts. ] asked as TO the prices, and was
told that a man could have bowl OF
soun with meat and vegetables once a
day at the rate of 25 cents per week.
The wages here received for common
workmen range from $3.50 TO IS PEI
week. There is plenty OF labor and the
factory is not troubled with strikes
FRANK G. CARPENTER.