East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1920-01-22
KRUPPS STRIPS Off
WEAPONS OF DEATH
FOR USEFUL TOOLS
Transformation in Famous
Manufacturing Plant is Kept
From Peace Time Status by
Lack of Coal, Transportation
BY CARL d. GRoAT.

UNITED States staff Correspondent
ESSEN, Germany, Jan. 22.-The
Krupp works are shifting gradually
forth into peacetime production. This
: famous plant, generally synonymous
with cannons and shells manufacture
J is stripping away the tools that made
: weapons of death or converting them
into implements of useful production
This transformation has proceeded
to the extent where the actual produc-
ton of peacetime goods has
rea ached
: Only the disruption of coal supply
and transportation stands in the krupp
path. Its officials, from Herr Krupp
Won Bohlen down. say the sindustri'
situation at the moment is very diff
cult from the coal and transportation
collapse. though they believe thin
will mend rapidly with improvement
of food distribution, betterment of
output and repairing of the railways.
Lights Are DINNER.
One reaches Essen in the early
morning, and through the gray dawn
peers out over a city that normal
" ould sparkle with mill lamps, with
the glow of furnaces against a smoky
Dack ground. The lamps the furnaces
z and the smoke are here, but in re-
stricted measure. One cannot gather
Z the Impression of wartime industry
z nor yet of the normal peacetime basis
z 1t has not yet reached that point
And the best illustration of the ex-
tent to which business is restored c.
be gained from the fact that VIII
collar stays fairly white until night
mot like a white collar in Pittsburg
: which is ruined before noon.
That is part of the picture. Essen
is laboring under difficulties. but is on
Z the upgrade.
Fl Roads In Terrible Plight.
q The terrible plight of the German
q railway rolling stock furnished such
which Krupp could handle
= without especial machinery alteration
3 Hence, the halls which formerly saw
. cf. nnons and the like turned out with
rapidity and thoroughness
Fl are now crammed with decrepit en-
. gines waiting for the Krupp doctor.
Krupps have found their cruciblt
q steel process produces a steel that car
q be used for locomotive boilers. 1t hai
q been Germany's difficulty that th'
. copper for boilers was exhausted ant
e that the iron or steel substitutes burn
= ed out quickly. This difficulty is OBJ
a Waited through the Krupp process
q Hence much business of repairini
e wheezy, wornout locomotives.
Then, too, the Krupps have gone in
a to the making of new locomotives an
=lc cars. Their plants can produce entir
. railway systems. The first of this bus
e inesss was launched recently when
. spick and span locomotive. laurel en-
. twined and be-ribboned chugged ou
. of the halls of Krupps pulling te
. freight "wagons"-the whole trai
. made in the plant
- In six months similar train ca
Fl be turned out daily If present esti
. mates hold true.
A Locomotive Shop.
III So today, the gunshop is locomo
= tive shop; the fuse shop makes bolt
land screws; the gun carriage sho
= makes Diesel motors; and all larg
. halls suitably equipped are given owe
= to locomotive repairing.
One sees plate making for locomo
= tives instead of for battleships: mil
= separators instead of ordnance pre-
. cision instruments: farm implement
. instead of guns and shells; railwa
. tires instead of gun mounts; ship pre-
II lpellers for commercial vessels instea
= lof for naval ships; Diesel motor deveI
= lopment for peacetime work instead {
= for U-boats.
. The plant is experimenting with
= number of articles. 1t wants to stand
. ardize them and to make only sue
= articles as involve comparatively nj
.lnor plant alteration or outlay for ma
= chinery AS it is. however. much ma
. chinery must be scrapped or sold. Fo
= instance lathes which girls used {
. run now stand in great rows, idl'
= awaiting sale to individual plants.