The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-06-10
Month After krmistice Army Of
$4,000 Employees Was
Reduced to 10000.
TAKE UP PURSUITS OF PEACE
Nowhere Else. In a self-contsined
Works, Has the Process Of Turn
Ing swords into Plowshares
Been on So Vast Scale.

A feature Of Krupp's works at Es-
sen al the present time which struck
Walter Meakin, writing In the London
Daily News. Is the scropping of the
huge extra equipment required for
Hindenburg's munltion program, which
raised the number Of employees from
1900 to $4,000.
The whole of the works, with no less
than 500 acres. or nearly square mile
Of covered floor space, was concentrate
ed entirely on production for the war,
when. at the signing of the armistice,
the vast organization of labor for de-
structive purposes suddenly collapsed.
The social portents In the Ruhr were
sinister. Revolution was In the blood
of the workers and no one could fore
cast the development of the upheaval.
Partly as precautionary measure,
partly to hurry on the task of adapt
Ing the works to new conditions, the
staff was reduced to the $4,000 prewar
strength within a month of the ar-
mistice The additional workers. in
Guiding all the women. were paid four
weeks wages and sent TO their homes
throughout Germany.
!. The position at this time was ex-
planned by one of the chief officials.
rAlthough before the war;" he said.
we manufactured other things, rail
~es aai shipping material, motor car
parts, high-grade tool steels and so on
the production Of guns, munitions and
war vessels was the mainstay Of the
works. AL that was irrevocably end
ed"
In the intervening two years the
task Of converting the arsenal to peace
production has proceeded increasingly,
and still goes on. Nowhere else, In a
self-contained works, has the process
of turning swords into plowshares been
carried out on so vast a scale. ~.
Titanic Transformation Spectacle.
Under the supervision of the allied
control commission the whole of the
new shell and gun equipment in the
mammoth buildings Of the Hindenburg
program has been made useless and
thrown to the scrap heap. The most
complete. and spectacular transforma.
ton has taken place in one of these
buildings. Within twelve months II
was re-equipped with machinery for
the mass production of locomotive
\ goods and engines for the state rail
E ways. sa
From a balcony one looks down i'm
mense avenues of roaring machinery
and the whole scene, with hundred,
Of workmen busy at forge or lathe, o.
about the assembling stands
.--is-sae-ef titanic enterprise. From tn
bays on the side come the plates an,
~ Uthef aRftHvy parts. From the othe
side flows stream of machined parts
and IN wide central bay they com
together at thirty-fve assemblin
stands. ,.-,
The normab'rate of production wit
each engine-aad. tender on the stan
for nineteen days, would give, roughl
daily output of one completed engln
but while the artisans are underfe
and domestic troubles foster politics
discomfort normal work is impossible
Nevertheless this engine shop presen
ed the most impressive picture of /
dustrial activity seen in Germany.
Make Costly Experiments.
In the famous cannon halls Of pr
vious years and in other parts of Il
works elaborate and costly experiment
in the manufacture of textile and ag
cultural machinery, tractors and mot
vehicles are being carried out, in I
belief that the home market, which h
been almost monopolized by Ameri
In the past, can be supplied by ma
production methods.
This intense reorganization effort
0 W.