WORKERS’ PARADISE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12619, 2 December 1926, Page 11

WORKERS’ PARADISE

MR BRUCE SEES CADBURY’S GIRLS"ARE RELUCTANT TO MARRY WORK IS A PLEASURE By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Australian and N.2. Cable Association. LONDON, November 30. Favoured by. a sunny but cold day, Mr and Mrs Bruoe, accompanied fcy the. Lady Mayoress of Birmingham, visited the Cadbury Works at Bourneville, and saw the 10,000 employees carrying out eveiy process of manufacture. Everyone was impressed with the lofty rooms, and 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 hglf-daya .In the week in work hours were' also rioted, EVERYBODY CHEERFUL Mr and Mrs Bruce remarked on the clieeriness of the employees, and were not surprised to learn that the girls are reluctant to forsake their opportunities of games and companionship for the comparative loneliuess of matrimony. _ The Cadbury "girls, on the average, marry three years later than the Birmingham girls. After a tour of the Bournville model housing area, the visitors were the guests of the directors at lunch. Mr Bruce said he would like to see all industries conducted under similarly perfect conditions. A CONTRAST After seeing this pattern of cleanliness the party went to quite the reverse, MeSsrs John Wright and Eagle Company’s gasfire and gas oven works. Mr Bruce was photographed making a casting among a group of grimy workers, 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 he was photographed before a huge motor turbine destined for Broken Hill. To-night he will be the chief guest at a Chamber of C- uinerre dinner.