The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-24

point Is well taken. They are cer- tainly doing peace work today.
 The next shop made me think of one of our International Harvester plants. It is devoted to the making of agricultural machinery and going through it was almost Sabbath days journey. The building covers many acres and the work is so standardized that the output is great They are making threshing machines, mowers and reapers, blows and harrows, and everything used on the farm. The various parts of the machines are painted by dipping tt em into vats containing the color desired after which they are touched up according to order. In one great Lives for reapers and mowers. The knives are piled up in cords and hundreds of men are finishing them for the completed machines. No- where cid I see any idleness or waste of labor and everybody seemed tc be doing good, honest work. Their machinery is as good as any we have in America and l cannot but wonder how this low labor cost will affect the price of German goods in compe- tition with ours in the world mar kets. Twenty five cents day will surely beat from three dollars to six dollars a day if the products are tho same.
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 The Krupp Farm in RussiO.
 Just now I am told that much of the machinery is intended for Rus sia, where the Krupps are said to have been given large tract Of land in the southwestern part of that country. According to current reports the tract is about 100000 acres, and they will have the right to work it for 36 years, after which it is to go back to the0government. During this time the Germans are to have entire control, but only half of the workers must be foreigners All of the machinery is to be import ed free of duty and the soviet gov ernment has the refusal of certain amount of the agricultural products on the basis of Rotterdam prices It is intended to use steam blows, steam harrows, steam harvesters and steam threshing machines for work ing crops, and at the same time to established experiment stations which will teach the peasants mod sern farming and create demand for the machinery made here in the Ruhr. The soil is said to be of the best in south Russia and, with Ger man overseers and a large propor- ton of German workmen, the new farms should form great object lesson to the new peasant farm own CTS in the land of bolshevists.
 From War To Peace.
 After going through the works I talked with Herr Homann, one of the Krupp officials. about the mat ter of changing the plant from war to a peace basis He says that it was costly to an extreme and that the allied control commission destroyed about S5,000.000 worth of machinery. including 1000 machine tools and 27,000 tons of other equip ment.
 Before the war the steel turned out by the Krupps was largely in forgings and castings, for ship building, machinery and railways. It was made here and completed in other places. It was raw material rather than finished product. After the invasion of Belgium the em- ployes were more than doubled in number, and in addition there were about 30.000 women. New shops were created and extensions were made, and everything was devoted to the making of guns and muni- tions. The result was that when the