The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-30
British Peer HustLes
 and ShoUs Others How
 Shells Can Be Produced
Vscount Chetwynd Former Broncho Buster and Texas Deputy Sheriff, Cut Out Red Tape and Produced shellF Filling Factory Which Is One of
 the Marvels of the War
Rx GILBERT sELDEs

sizes was soon discontinued. At the time Of the Sonlme push it had sent to the front well over 100000 shells, supplying the entire wastage of the push and pill Ing up bigger reserve when it was over than was available when it began. For one week, recently it averaged 60,- eco shells per 24-hour day
 Lest anyone should be misled by the easy sound of millions of shells" and think that each shell is a little trifle about two by four, the following figures of & record days traffic had better be inserted. In A hours 5000 tons were de- livered from the factory and in the same day 40OO tons were accepted by the fac tory. The grand total of 21, ,000,OO0 pounds or material shipped through the factory in one day ought to be startling enough. Consider that the average day is as low as half that total. Multiply by the 750- odd days the factory has been in ex- istence, and you will get sum of traf fic moved which ought to make the Pennsylvania railroad jealous. The rea- son for these enormous figures is that the greater proportion of the shells moved are of the larger sizes 92 to 15- inch, for example. and each of these is large enough and heavy enough to stag ger two men.
 Several things are matters of indiffer- ence to Lord Chetwynd. One of them is scientific management; he prefers com mon business sense. Another Is welfare work He prefers the common sense knowledge of human nature.
 For example: In the factory thousands Of men and women are employed. The men can buy food at the canteen. The women lose 20 cents day and are given two meals for that money. The reason is that women will not feed themselves properly, They will buy a bun and a glass of ginger ale and consider them selves well fed. By insttuting the com pulsory meal, on which the factory loses money heavily, Lord Chetwynd has cut down illness in the factory almost to the vanishing point and the women's work is far more productive.
 LIVE IN TOWNS NEARBY
 The workers i've in the towns nearby, so that no problem of accommodation arises. Instead there is the problem of keeping nen and women contented at their tiring work. Safety and health are other considerations. For both every safeguard is taken. In case of an acci- dent the whole factory can be stopped by pushing an electric button, prominent ly placed ip each room. The presses, in which shells are slightly liable to ex- plosion, are 50 buih that no disaster can occur, and on the few occasions when shells haxe exploded the men and women nearby have quietly continued their work. Washing is compulsory All em- ployes are given 15 minutes of paid time, just before meals in which they are compelled to change all their clothes and | to wash.
 All through the noon hour, on fair Edays. band plays on the green in front l of the canteens. and the men and girls 1 dance to the music. The band Is com posed of men on the day shift, who are 1 paid for playing and for rehearsal time I Thousands of shells can be attributed l to the music alone for the health and | the spirits of the listeners and dancers is | apparent. Another result has been thai l the girls pay more attention to the ap- ] pearance of their clothes particularly boots and stockings The self-respect which comes from being well-dressed Is 1 unconsciously developed.
 l In addition to the usual arrange ments,. the factory supplies its own bottled drinks (nonalcoholic), slaugh T. l ters it's own cattle. bakes it's own bread. mends its own clothes, runs it's own general store and flor tuppence'' according to the director. would print it's own bank notes and postage stamps.
 Labor troubles. on any large scale are unknown. One trouble has been keep the men from working through their dinner hour. which is unpaid Tn order to keep up their record against the night shift the men once did work through They were reprimanded, but protested innocence. Whereupon they were taken into the head office where an automatic machine records not only the number of pressings finished, but the time and the machine which did the work. Its the best policeman in the shop said one of the men, rue fully. And noon-hour work stopped.
 / DEMANDS FOR MORE PAY
 Demands for changes in rates of nav are always heard. In one case the fiji ters demanded union rates. instead of nonunion rates plus bonus labor agitator had stirred them to make the demand which was formally pre- sented to Lord Chetwynd and imme- dlately granted. At the end of the week the filters found that they had lost several dollars by the change They are still sleeping on the bed they made and Lord Chetwynd has in his Wa1tlng room paper grayestone written by one of the filters:
 Here Lies
 the Filters Bonus
 Killed at Birth"
 HOW sweet the name of Bonus sounds in filters ear.
 R. I. P.
 II have never done a man a wan ton injury" Lord Chetwynd told me