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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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use,and supjalies steam at a pressure of 10 atmospheres, andwith 200 degs. Centigrade superheat. THE WORKMEN AND STAFF OF GERMAN FACTORIES The consideration shown by employers for their woik-men was apparent in every factory visited. It took theform of dining-rooms, lockers for the mens belongings,provisions in the shops for washing, and in some cases do not seem to hurry themselves unduly. There is nodoubt that an equitable piece work system without anysweating is good for both employer and employee, as it re-duces the number of non-producers in a shop to a mini-mum point. The nagging and chivying which one sees insome British shops does no good in the end. An excellent feature is the encouragement given thesons of employees. In many cases these young men areoffered special facilities for passing through the shops andoffices, so that they may, in due time, take leading positionson the staff. Many engineers remarked on the absence ofthe boy labor which is so common in England. Men and
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VIEW OF AN ELEVATED SECTION OF THE BERLIN ELEVATED AND UNDERGROUND RAILWAY elaborately fitted baths. These are all things which areomitted in the average British factory. The foreign workman has not so high a wage, and hasto work slightly longer hours, but there is no doubt that heis much better ofif in the conditions in which he has towork. Take a German workman out of one of the newA. E. G. shops, where there is room to waltz round everymachine, and the floor is so clean that one could cat hisdinner ofif it, and put that same man into the average dark,dirty and crowded English shop (or marine store, as manyof them deserve to be called) at double the wage, and it ismore than likely he will prefer Berlin. The Continental workman is sup))ose(l to work muchlonger hours, but as a matter of fact, he works ten hours aday, and very seldom makes overtime. Piece work is the rule in most German works, and tlirprices appear to be arranged on an easy basis, as the hands young women do all the wo

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