Reports on labour and social conditions in Germany . May Day Procession of Working IVlen Erecting Shop of the Berliner Maschinenbau 1D3 ditions of employmeut under which both mou and womenworked. On leaving Belgium my impressions were that the workingClasses worked at a lower speed than they do in England, thoughthey apply themselves, and with regularity, to their tasks. Theprosperity of the country has developed considerably since myprevious visit twelve years ago. This is easily seen in the totalabsence of that al)ject poverty unhapiiily so prevalent in Eng-land. The working cl
Reports on labour and social conditions in Germany . May Day Procession of Working IVlen Erecting Shop of the Berliner Maschinenbau 1D3 ditions of employmeut under which both mou and womenworked. On leaving Belgium my impressions were that the workingClasses worked at a lower speed than they do in England, thoughthey apply themselves, and with regularity, to their tasks. Theprosperity of the country has developed considerably since myprevious visit twelve years ago. This is easily seen in the totalabsence of that al)ject poverty unhapiiily so prevalent in Eng-land. The working classes are thiifty and hard-working. ESSEN. Cix)ssing the frontier from liOlgium into Germany we atonce found ourselves in quite a dilferent atmosphere. We hadentered the land of system, and the well-ordered condition ofthings, even to the slightest detail, that the Fatherland is sofamed for, was at once apparent. Some time before we reachedEssen we could discern a forest of huge chimney shafts, whichindicated the presence of the colossal works of the great firmof Krupp. Other deputations had
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