Evening star., 1923-06-24
Industrial Strength Seen Rhr Valleys Great Plants

large proportion of German workmen.
the new farms should form a grea
object lesson to the new peasant
farm owners in the land of the boil
shevists.i
After going. through the works I
talked with Herr Homann, one of the
Krupp officials, about the matter of
changing the plant from a war to a
peace basis. He says that it was
costly toz an extreme and that the
allied control commission destroyed
about S5,0o0.0O0 worth of machinery,
including 1000 machine tools and
$1,000 tons of other equipment.
Before the war the steel turned out
by the Krupps was largely in forg-
ings and castings, for shipbuilding.
machinery and railways. 1t was
made here and completed in other
places 1t was raw material rather
than a finished product. After the in
vasion of Belgium the employees
were more than doubled in number.
and in addition there were about
10000 women. New shops were Gre
ated and extensions were made, and
everything was devoted to the making
of guns and munitions.
The result was that when the war
closed many skilled workmen and
engineers were out of jobs and they
could not be employed on the pro-
duction of steel in the mass. To give
them work the Krupps took up the
manufacture of precision instruments.
cash registers, measuring tools. Die
sci and raw oil engines. motor trucks.
and excavating and dredging ma
chimes. They are now making tools
that must work to the thousandth or
ten thousandth of an inch; they are
producing electrical devices Of vari-
Gus kinds, and machines for deter
| mining the balance of rotating
| masses. They have extended their
work as to railroads, and now make
steel rails. sleepers, and accessories
| for q permanent roadway, and also
| structural steel for bridges and build
| ings. In fact, they can take con-
tract for an entire railway line. in
cluding the track, bridges, buildings.
rolling stock and everything that is
| necessary to create system of
| running transportation.
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| TN addition to the great works here.
| L the Krupps have mines in other
| places, including Spain; they have
big plant at Rheinhausen, where they
make steel plate and forgings, and
| shipyard at Kiel which built many
| of the battleships. cruisers and tor
pedoes of the German navy and
| turned out most of the submarine
| fleet. This plant is now engaged in
! building ship units of all sizes and
| kinds for the mercantile service.
Another great plant belonging to
the, Krupps is at Madgeburg. where
chilled cast steel and chilled iron
1 castings are made: These were used
| for the manufacture of small guns
during the war, but they are now
employed in making all sorts of
threshing and grinding machinery.
4 fThese plants can build all the equip
ment needed by factories for the
! making Of linoleum, celluloid. rubber
and cement, as we'll as mills that
treat sugar cane, coffee and the
various fibers,
4 Indeed, the. Krupps of today are
pushing their way into every branch
of peace industry, and if Germany
! should ever return, to normalcy they
| will be found to have their fingers
! in every Industrial pie throughout
the world. The company now has.
altogether, = 100000 employees, of
4 whom $4,000 are here at Essen. And,
as I have said before, the workmen
are skilled and their wages are 25
\ cents . daytsStop! Look. Listen!!!
/ Copyright, 1923. by Carpenters World
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