The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1906-12-15
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makes his dwelling place right among
them. His own wife and daughter do
the homework and he keeps down the
living expenses to a level with that Of
his own Workmen. And no man in
America is making any better shoes
than he. Wherever he sells his goods
once he sells them again, and he has
placed them with the biggest dealers
in this country"
mo high salaries to dummies, Ell?
All same insurance companies? ?" broke
in the nat manufacturer
No. not even one for himself"
I'VE have a striking example in our
country" began with foreign accent a
German representing a Berlin chemis-
try establishment, "of what one gains
by treating his men right"
You mean the Krupp plant at Es-
sen, do you not?" asked the hat manu-
facturer.
Ideal German City.
Exactly replied the German. ''And
that, believe, is the greatest little city
in the world. Essen contains over sixty
thousand Of the happiest people on
earth
Why do you say that?" asked the
manufacturer of shoddy cloth.
Because I have been there" retort-
ed the German. "and it wouldn't hurt
you to make the trip yourself. About
half a century ago now, the elder
Krupp was d workman in a cannon
factory. Along with his fellow work
men he ate his black bread. without
butter on it and drank his little bucket
of beer at the noon hour. While he
was earning perhaps less than four
marks a day-Which would be about a
dollar in your American money-he
made a discovery which has revolu-
tionized the manufacture of cannon.
He was wise enough, too, not to get
cheated out of his invention. BY and
by he started a little plant Of his own
and to-day his establishment is per-
haps the greatest manufacturing insti
tuition in the world.
s'When he began his factory, having
known what it was to suffer at thu
hands Of a hard task master. he took
an oath that he would always treat
his workmen as his fellow men. file
argued that it was not only his duly
to treat his men right, but that if he
did SO, he would get out of them better
work.
sAnd so he has. To-day this Krupp
establishment makes armorplate 50
strong that nothing but a Krupp gun
can shoot through it.
well, in what way did he treat his
Workmen 50 as to get the best out of
tIem?" asked the young man from COLI
lege
well, in the first place." replied the
German, '.he paid his men good wages;
and then, besides that, he looked after
the welfare Of all his people almost as
if they had been members Of his own
family. And so he considered them.
He built cheerful little homes for the
men who had families. To-day as you
walk through the streets Of that town
you will find gardens in front of all the
houses and flowers blooming in them.
"Krupp is dead now, and so is his
son, but his granddaughter is continu-
ing the good work. She is looked upon
in our country with the same regard
that a faVorite princess receives.
Men Cared For in Sickness.
"And the elder Krupp did not stop
with making homes for his people. He
also built hospitals and employed ply
sicians and attendants to look after
them. When anyone in the town
would become sick. they were free to
go to- the hospital and receive treat
ment. The hospital was not used to
secrete men injured in the works and
keep them from friends and legal adj
yisers, as are the hospitals in some of
the big American plants.
HE also puilt libraries and stocked
them with thousands of books. He saw
that all the children in the town went
to good, clean, sanitary schools, and
when these children grew up he made
it possible for them to marry at an
early age, and to be able to raise their
cwn little families. This great man, !"
he continued, understood the peos
pie. When people have pleasant
pastimes they take a greater interest
in their labor. The trouble with most
Of the men who employ great forces
of men and girls is that all they seek
for and all they care for is to get work
-Work-work-out Of them. | fear
from what I see Of your American in
stitutions, gentlemen, that you have
not in any very great degree improved
upon the conditions in the old world.
Eyes, sir; that grand old man looked
after the pleasure Of his people. He
built gymnasiums and halls in which
they could dance; made a club house
where they could assemble for their
parties, SO that the young people form
ed literary clubs and musical organiza-
tions; and things like that. He was a
broad minded man-this man Krupp.
He even built a church for each de-
nomination in the town.
land BY his liberality he drew his
workmen to him SO closely that they
revered him as they do the kaiser
Copyright, 1906, by Daily Story Pub. Coz
Career Of French Premier
NJ. Clemenceau, the new premier Of
France, now in his sixty-ninth year, is
physician and but for the Franco