MR. AND MRS. BRUCE

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 58, 2 December 1926, Page 11

MR. AND MRS. BRUCE

VISIT TO BOURNEVILLE MODERN PROVISION FOR EMPLOYEES London. November 30. Favoured by a sunny but cold day, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce, accompanied by the Ladv Mayoress of Birmingham, visited the Cadbury Works at Bourneville, and saw the 10,000 employees carrying out every process of manufacture’. Everyone was impressed with the lofty rooms, excellent welfare, recreation and bathing provisions, and especially the cheap dining hall in which 5000 people can be accommodated at once. The continuation schools in which the work girls are taught for three half-days in the week in work hours were also noted. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce remarked on the cheeriness of the employees, and were not surprised to learn that the girls were reluctant to forsake their opportunities for games and companionship for the comparative loneliness of matrimony. The Cadbury girls marry three years later than the Birmingham average. After a tour of the Bourneville model housing area, the visitors were the guests of the directors at lunch. Here Mr. Bruce said he would like to _ see all industries conducted under similarly perfect conditions. After seeing this pattern of cleanliness the party went to quite verse, Messrs.’ John Wright and Eagle Company's gas fire and gas oven works. Mr. Bruce' was photographed making a casting among a group of grimy workmen, who cheered him for not spilling a drop of the molten metal. Later Mr. Bruce paid a hurried visit to the General Electric Company’s works, where be was photographed before a huge motor turbine destined for Broken Hill.