THE HONGKONG TELEGRAFII, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1988.
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WHIZ WHITE TIRE COATING the fumes of TN.T. (tri- eives your automobile that sought nitrotoluene, C6 H2 (NO2)3, the principal ingredient of the projectile part of a high explosive shell) have taken most of the colour out of it. He makes shells for a firm of private armament manufac- turers, or rather, to be accurate, he helps to make shells.
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"My job," he told me, "con- sists of putting the T.N.T. into the projectile. We melt the stuff down and pour it into the BROWN HOLMES.-At Hongkong, shell out of an aluminium jug.
June, 1030, Captain Frank Leader Brown, late Royal It cools and sets and we screw Engineers, to Muriel Wilfred in the detonating parts, deliver- Holmes, youngest daughter of
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SOUZA. --On June 10, 1938, at the Queen Mary Hospital, Antonio Jose de Mattos E. Souza, aged 42 years. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day (Manlio, Macau and Shanghal papers please copy),
The
surprisingly simple.
"In the larger shells care has
While Sir Thomas Inskip, Defence Ministar, is dis- cussing the rearmament "spood-up" with repre- sentatives of the A.E.U. and other key trado unions this article is particularly Interesting. It doneribas the life, work and dangora of tha men who make shells in munitions
factory.
By Wilfred Sendall
to be taken to see that the T.N.T. sets consistently, without any bubbles in it. It is not unlike is an engineering works, just so that stirring porridge."
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"WE are liable to a kind of dermatitis. As
a precaution the firm supplies us with a special, scented soap, as the soda in coarse soap opens the pores of the skin. We are regularly inspected, by, Home Office inspectors and doctors, who examine in particular the teeth, eyes, tongue and the skin between the fingers. Each man is expected to report to the works' surgery if he notices any symptoms and is taken off the job.
"Work is fairly easy paced.
Each hut is expected to turn out about a hundred shells a day. We could actually produce three
like any other engineering works, special boots we wear are made times that number but for the
pegs instead but, in what we call the danger with wooden
is to prevent area, we all work in small, de- nails. The idea tached huts, measuring some grit or any other foreign ma- Four terial getting into the huts and
"ISN'T it rather danger- sixteen feet by twelve.
ous?" I asked.
Hongkong Telegraph. "Aren't you afraid of men are in each hut. This re- striking a spark.
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1036.
STORM WARNING
sions ?"
you afraid of explo- duces the consequences of an explosion.
ed to understand the stuff.
safety regulations limiting the amount of material to be in the hut at any one time. One of the rules specifically states that. work must be done quietly, with out undue haste. If we have a "Each hut is connected to the rush order we do not speed up dressing rooms by a raised plat- but work overtime instead. "I was a little, before I learn- "The number of shells we can form, so that, once we have
"For some reason our rushi But be working on at once is limited changed, we do not come into not now. It takes a good deal by Home Office regulation.
contact with the ground again. periods seem to come in the sum- Inside the huts floors and In view of the interest into detonate T.N.T, and it is safe
"The huts are scattered about benches are covered with the "When I started at the factory developments in Spain,
and enough to handle.
in a wond, a really beautiful best quality linoleum.
I did three months with an ex- · particularly since Great Britain "Besides, the most minute wood of silver birches. They is contemplating drastic action precautions are taken."
"Heavy fines are inflicted if perienced worker. This was the are approached by a tree-lined to prevent A recurrence of
I asked him for details. "In road and the whole place looks any smoking material, matches, only training necessary. After bombers' attacks on her ship-the first place," he said, "the like a country gentleman's estate cigarettes or tobacco, are found that period I could work on my ping, the tendency in the United factory is nothing like what you that has been allowed to run a on a man at work. These rules States to abolish the embargo understand by a factory. There bit wild. on arms to Spain is interesting.
It would seem that the Ameri-
"Each hut is built in its own clearing and the magazines,
mer,
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own. The only qualification for employment is to be over 21 are strictly enforced.
years of age, yet it is not always. "Materials are delivered from easy to get labour because of the the magazines to the huts in nature of the work.” trolleys, running on miniature
cans have not very much faith Lookers-on proverbially see where the ingredients and the in the non-intervention agree most of the game, and while the finished shells are kept, are sur- railway lines, but the men who
ment, and that, perhaps, they do not relish the idea of the crush-
Governments of Britain
push them never enter either magazine or hut.
"With all these
"Is the pay good?" I asked. "Under three pounds a week, with a small 'danger money allowance and overtime in addi- precautions tion. If we go sick (if the sick.
minimum. The only real danger which case we can claim compen- is to health. Girls handling antion) or are absent for any 'yellow powder' turn yellow, other cause we get no pay. We
"ABOUT 1,500 workers explosion risks are reduced to ness is not due to the work, in
are employed about
and rounded by a high earth bank. ing of Spanish democracy by France cling pathetically to the Fascist states. It is not too Non-Intervention Polley in spite much to say that the situation of its continued failure to pre- in Spain has seldom been more vent foreign aggression In serious; and the Italian press is Spain, these two Senators seem the place. already giving warning of a to have become convinced that crisis to come and voicing what in this particular dog-fight the "When we arrive at work we They wear respirators at work had four days off over Christmas are tantamount to warnings to rules are not being properly have to change all our outer and their faces are smothered but no pay." Great Britain and France not to kept, and that America's vital clothes. On the job we wear with boracic powdert, They When the workers leave the do this and that. But France interests are
likely to be cord jackets and trousers, with- work in shifts of a week on and has already done something affected by the result.
out pockets, turn-ups or buttons, a week off, and are supplied with about the violation of her "It is not necessary to ima-No metal of any kind is allowed, fresh milk twice a day. frontier by aircraft; and Britain gine that there has been any appears to be about to do some-sudden conversion to League of
thing interesting to prevent the Nations views. The resolution GRIN AND BEAR IT sinking of her merchant ships. that Senator Nye is to move- And what Mr. Arthur Davies, after consultation and agree- writing from Geneva, has toment with Senator Pittman and say about the United States is after obtaining the consent, interesting, too.
Mr. Davies Bays:
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willingly given by Secretary of}
State Cordell Hull, to withdraw "It is too early to predict with State opposition to the lifting of confidence the success of the the embargo will follow a ro- very remarkable move being port on the present facts to be made in the United States to drafted by the State depart- lift the embargo on the exportment, showing what the effect of arms to Government Spain of allowing the import of arms which has been in force since into Spain would be. The re- January 8, 1987, when Congress solution will have to run the resolved to apply its neutrality gauntlet of the Foreign Rela- policy to both sides in the tions Committee, Senate and Spanish conflict. Perhaps the House of Representatives, but is most extraordinary feature in expected, on account of the this business is to be found in personalities behind it, to have the personalities that are be an easy passage. hind it. Senator Key Pittman "Apparently what has dawned is Chairman of the Foreign Re- upon the American mind is the lations Committee of the danger to its own democratic
the course Senate, and has hitherto been idealism in
that chiefly known for his unbending events are taking in Europe. opposition to meddling in other Americans feel so strongly that people's wars, Senator Nye law and democracy alike are in was one of the authors of the the gravest danger that they Neutrality Act and has always are willing on their behalf been regarded as a protagonist break away from their tradi- of the Isolationist school. tional isolationfem."
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factory, George told me, one every now and then is picked out at random and searched. He had never been searched him- self. Precautions for keeping
mises were stringent.
By Lichty unauthorised people off the pre-
to
"Hold on, Slup! We're diggin' in circles)"
Secrecy is expected, George told me, but, he added, "We know so little about the business except our own little process.. I have known men who have been shell-filling all their lives who know practically nothing about sholls in the technical sense.”.
GEORGE'S factory, be ing a private arms concern, supplies foreign Powers with ammunition. He had just come from working on a foreign order when I was talking to him.
"Does it ever worry you," I` asked, "to think that the shells you make might conceivably be used against your own country.. men, even against yourself?"
He shrugged his shoulders. "Why should it? If I didn't do the job, someone else would. I should prefer some other work, but this was the only job I could [get.
"I was glad to take it. It's a living."
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