HERR KRUPP AND HIS WORKMEN.

Waikato Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1772, 13 November 1883, Page 3

HERR KRUPP AND HIS WORKMEN.

Tjik mimbcr of people employed by Merr Kiupp at his woiUs near Essen, in tlic Piussian Mime Province, is over 20,000. The daily coiisiunption of coal and coke m the ir>43 furnaces of difleiont kinds is 3000 tons, vvhich are furnished by the coal mines belonging to the concern. The woiks contain S2 steam hammers, and oOOboilcis and engines of together 20,000 hoi^es' power. The daily pioduce ot iion oic fiom the Kiupp mines is 1300 tons, and that of cast steel and iion by the entire works about 700 tons, or 200,000 per annum. This includes the pi oduction of guns, bridges, lails, ships, anchor^, chains, &^ Hcrr Krupp has locognisod the fact that the " captain of imlnstiy" has not done all required of him by tlic higher unwritten law to which he bows when he has obtained a certain amount of labour, and has paid the stipulated wages for it. The iirsfc need of these woikmen ib decent and healthy dwelling-houses, and the linn has provided ior them between thiee and lour thousand dwelling-houses, substantially built, with ct'llaiago, ganets, and gaidens. The houses aio of vanons sizes, to suit the wages and family ehenmstances of the classes composing the colony. The bachelor may obtain two eoinfoitablo looms in a lodging-house or banackhouse for from £3 to £i 10s a year, or from Is 2d to Is !)d a week ; the yomm newly-mauied pair may begin housekeeping in a Iv. o loomed house, with .i cellar, for C 4 10s or £{j las a year, or under 2s a weal- , and as baby blossoms con. c to gladden them they may initiate to other and more commodious houses langinguptojtcn guineas a year, ov4spoi week, foi which a five ioo:n house with a cellar and gaiden may bo obtained For the single men special provision is made in a Luge bonding-house, capable of accommodating I SOO boaidcis at a cost of about Is "id a day; and, as the lowest wage paid for unskilled labour i.s 3s a day, and tor skilled labour about ss, a piudentman in the colony ought to do faiily well. Connected with the works are sick and pension institutions, providing tcmpoiary suppoit to the disabled or their widows, and piovision for the snpei animated. School?, a hospital, baths, and an insurance union arc established in connection with tlio works. It would probably be found that too much is ananged for the workmen to suit the independence- and mdniduality of English woikmcn, but the view one gets is inteiestnig and instinctive. The spirit which dictates all this eaie is admirable, for it lecognises a human l elation be twten employer and employed that can never be ignoied without loss and danger. A man is always something more than a " hand ;" and do what we will we can nowr l educe him to a mere machine. The \ast scale on which modem MOiks aiccanied out makes it impossible that them .should be the same peisonal intercom so and individual mteiest which made the relations of an eulier time giacious and healthy, and the old kindly spiiit, if it suivive, must adapt itselt to the ehaiged conditions — the essential thing is that the spirit should be kept alive. — Daily "NTews.

I'm ate, Knnboi, of the 4th Hu^s.us, chained a\ ith h.mn£ accused Ins eapt.un of Ju\in<* conni\er{ .it hi-, hciny thrown into the Thanu ■> l>y hi-> eouuade^, has boon sentenced to one months imprisonment. Tin, London con cspondent of the Belfast News Lcttei t-t.it.es tliat he is nifornied that tlie ship (Joiisco, which lately s.iiled fiom the AJeissoy, had on boaul 0000 carl lines, consigned to Mr Stanley, thcAfnc.in exploici. Anntiieh) the pound!- ocpor of the To Ananiutu piiund <ippo us in mnlhci Loluinn .Mr Junes Watte is, le Jv.ilm, offers a icwaril for tho ioco\e l r\ of tlireo reius Mr J S Jiurkl.ind will sell .it Ilio Cambric! ijo Yards on a.itunl.ij .ic\t, harks horn N.ipici, ill uiurlit uul plough hoiscs, l.ulv's li ick, s iddlc and bridle 1 , liorsc < o\crs, \r On Tuesday nc\t he will sell .it tho Cambi ulg-c Yard"!, i.it cattle 1 , dairy ro\\i and stoics, shorthoin bull, fat sheep and 1 nubs, &c. Saniiul Coombcs .uicl Co. will hold a sale of llic b.il mre of fames ]), ilex's baukuipt stock at tho Public Hall, AlevmUia, foi si\ dajs only, commencing to-da> . llic Pnkek'.m Road Ho.ucl notily that the ro.iel to Cambridge through Hell's has been closed until iuither notice, pending- repairs to Hell's hill. Ihe Public AVorks Department unite tenders for Anchorage-, "Wmdstajs Contiact, Hamilton Railway J'ndffo. Messrs W. J. Huntci and Co. will sell at the Oh uipo Yaids on llmisda\ next, a larjfc numbei of cattle of all kinds, filly b) Pi osident, tat tattle, 5.l On S.iturda) the-j wi'l sell at the Cambridge Yards, hoiscs, &.c. a AFcisis Cl.uk and G.ino will sell at his residence, Alph.i-stre.et, Cambndcre, on Friday next, the whole of the household furniture and effects of Mi Kobt Stew ait