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Show I BRITISH SMALL ARMSJFACTORY Employs 10,000 Men, Women and Boys Turns Million Rifles and 500,000 Machine Ma-chine Guns. Birmingham. England. April SC-me SC-me factory making small arm bore lor the British fighting men has a capacity ca-pacity approaching a million rifles and Tno,000 machine guns yearly. It employs em-ploys 10,000 men, women and boys Many of Its arrangements for the welfare wel-fare of the workers are attributed to the fart that the managing director of this firm is an American, Percy Martin Mar-tin of Columbus, Ohio. H The factory' has a canteen where five thousand dinners are served daily to the men and women workers The whole upp'T floor of one vast building build-ing is taken up by (his department and here the men obtain meals of meat H and vegetables for eighteen cents, a remarkable figure when the present prices In England are taken into eon-.sideration. eon-.sideration. while for another three H cents pudding or fruit may be ob- BH talned. The women, girls and boys. I who are served in separate dining rooms are charged but twelve cents for the same meal. The health of the workers is one of the first considerations. |