Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-03-28

welcome When the American engin-
| GERS visited the Paris exposition a few
| years ago this company gave them 4
special excursion from Paris to Berlin
10 see our works They We're given q
luncheon at the factory, a steamboat
ride on the river Spree and a banquet,
and all without charge
OTHER AMERICANIZED INDUS.
TRIES.
The Loewe company manufacture
light machine tools only and they work
ON the interchangeable system so that
they can supply parts at any time,
There are other machine tool works
here The Niles works has d large branch
which is connected with the Loewe
works. 1t makes It's tools from Ameu-
can patterns and depends for the
larger machines upon It's American
connections. The LuXfer Prism COM
pany of Chicago. has a German estab-
lishment and also the Worihngton
Pump company The Westinghouse
has a branch electrical establishment
in Berlin, and the Union Elektrische
Gesellschaft is the German connection
Of our General Electric company.
The Union Elektrischr Geselschaft
has factory In Berlin and another at
Riga, in Russia, and II does a big conti-
mental business When It's factory here
is In full working order 1t employs $500
men, and at present the number is lit
tie less. The works are built OF brick.
iron and glass They have about %
acres Of floor space, filed with the
lnest Of electrical machinery, and the
most Of the machines are American
| went through this factory the Other
day. II is cleaner and better Kept than
most OF our factories. and II is as WcE
equipped as any II makes an sorts
Of electrical machines. from enormOu
generators for the city streetcar sys.
TENS 10 little electric mOters, which
are sent by thousands 10 Russia The
factory has its own brass and iron
lopndries It's own machine shops Of all
kinds, its Photographic establishment,
ana its printing presses, where ID can
lurn out It's catalogues IN color II has
been built on the American plan, and il
Is run after American methods This is
the company which has equipped most
OF the Berlin street railroads. as we'll as
those OF other German cities. IL Is al.
ready doing large export business. and
deals with South America, Africa and
Asia.
GERMAN WORKMEN VS. AMERI-
CAN.
] walked through the works with the
assistant manager Mr. Cotton. who was
with our Westinghouse COM
lany IN the United States. and as / d.d ]
30 chatted with him about the differ /
'nco between the German and American
Workman In reply to my questions De ]
aid.
u have not been here very long. and /
may nave occasion TO change my opin-
on, but so far / don't think the Ger |
mans can do more than 90 per cent as /
much work as the Americans We pay |
,ar laborers about half as much as sim /
lar men receive In the United states. I
ma We work them more hours. but pro. 4
'ortionately the Americans do as much /
or HIS money Take the man over there 4
Who Is filing at that piece OF machinery. /
notice how carefully De works and how
e keeps at II until every tooth is ex.
.cuy right and beautifully SHAY he 4
urns out fine work. but he wastes lime
q doing l. The machine Is no better for
NhtH NAiHAH al aAAll'l % All MNNIl
we that machine dozen strokes Of the
he and smooth itup wen enough for an
tactical purposes The German is not
with anything but a perfect
nish, but & is no better as far as utl.
~ Is concerned This Us one Of my great.
Il troubles here. ] can't get these men
, understand we are making tools and
OF jewelry"
ONT LIKE MODERN MACHINERY. /
How about the American machines.
.r CottonY ! asked Can you get the
etmans TO work them 10 their fun
ipaclty?"
No, They don't want 20 Increase the
oduct They think the work that Is
70 over for today must be done ,0mor-
IVY. They try 20 delay rather than % I
irry, and this is so throughout the |
erman factories We had one machine |
al seemed to me 10 be running as fast
{ In the United states. but. somehow !
other. II did not produce the same 1
suits. ] watched the man. au1 fcgat
Iat he was cutting only a hairlne at a
me when he should have been taking
I quarter OF an inoh."