1938-06-10 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPI, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1938.

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many English- men-is George. He is well-built, but rather For that FINISHED BEAUTY ... pale, and used to have a that smart different appearance, use head of bright fair hair, but WHIZ WHITE TIRE COATING the fumes of T.N.T. (tri- gives 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, "can- sists of putting the T.N.T. into the projectile. We melt the stuff down and pour it into the shell out of an aluminium jug. It cools and sets and we screw the in the detonating parts, deliver-

On June 10, 1938, the Queen Mary Hospital, Antonio Jose de Maltos E. Souza, aged 12 Yours Funeral will

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In view of the interest in

surprisingly simple.

developments in Spain, and "Aren't particularly since Great Britain sions?"

is contemplating drastic action

♡ "ISN'T it rather danger

ous?" I

naked,

While Sir Thomas Inskip. Defence Minister, is dis- cussing the rearmament "spood-up" with reprò. sentatives of the A.E.V. and other key trade unions this articlo is particularly intorasting It describes the life, work and dangor of the man who make sholls In 2 munitions

factory.

By Wilfred Sendall

you afraid of explo- duces the consequences of an

"I was a little, before I learn-

explosion.

"The number of shells we can form, to prevent A recurrence

of led to understand the stuff. But be working on at once is limited bombers' attacks on her ship not now. It takes a good deal by Home Office regulation. ping, the tendency in the United to detonate T.N.T. and it is safe Stales to abolish the embargo enough to handle. on arms to Spain is interesting.

even the soles

of the

"WE

I are ¡lable to a kind of dermatitis. As

a precaution the firm supplies us' with a special, aconted soap, as the soda in coarse soap opens the pores of the skin. We are regularly, inspected by Homo Ofice 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. Ench hut is expected to turn out about a hundred shells a day. We could actually produce three

hut at any one time. One of the

mer,

"In the larger ahells care has 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:

like any other engineering works, special boots we wear are made times that number but for the stirring porridge.”

safety regulations limiting the but, in what we call the danger with wooden pegs instead of area, we all work in small, de- nails, The idea is to prevent amount of material to be in the tached huts, measuring some grit or any other foreign ma-

rules specifically states that sixteen feet by twelve. Four terial getting into the huts and

work must be done quietly, with- mon are in each hut. This re- striking a spark.

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.

so that, once we have

"For some reason our rush changed, we do not come into contact with the ground again. periods scom to come in the sum- Inaide the huts floors and "The huts are scattered about benches are covered with the "When I started at the factory in a wood, a really beautiful

I did three months with an ex- best quality linoleum. "Besides, the most minule wood of silver birches. They It would seem that the Ameri-precautions are taken."

are approached by a tree-lined "Heavy fines are inflicted if perienced worker. This was the cans have not very much faith in the non-intervention agree-

I asked him for details. "In road and the whole place looks any amoking material, matches, only training necessary. After the first place,"

he said, "the like a country gentleman's estate cigarettes or tobacco, are found that period I could work on my ment, and that, perhaps, they do

factory is nothing like what you that has been allowed to run & on a man at work. These rules own. The only qualification for

employment is not relish the idea of the crush- understand by a factory. There bit wild.

to be over 21 are strictly enforced.

years of age, yet it is not always ing of Spanish democracy by

"Each hut is built in its own "Materials are delivered from easy to get labour because of the Fascist states. It is not too

to the huts in nature of the work." clearing and

the magazines, the magazines much to say that the situation

on miniature where the ingredients and the trolleys, running

"Is the pay good?" I asked. Anished shells are kept, are aur- railway lines, but the men who

"Under three pounds a week, never enter either rounded by a high earth bank.

push them

with a small 'danger' money magazine or hut.

allowance and overtime in addi- "With all these precautions tion. If we go sick (if the sick-

Lookers-on

proverbially

see

in Spain has seldom been more most of the game, and while the and serious; and the Italian press is Governments of Britain nlready giving warning of a France cling pathetically to the crisis to come and voicing what Non-Intervention Policy in spite are tantamount to warnings to of its continued failure to pre- vent foreign aggression in Great Britain and France not to

Spain, these two Senators seem

"ABOUT 1,500 workers are employed about

explosion risks are reduced to ness is not due to the work, in minimum. The only real danger which case we can claim compen- is to health. Girls handling gation) or are absent for any 'yellow powder' turn yellow, other cause we get no pay. We

do this and that. But France to have become convinced that the place. has already done something in this particular dog-fight the "When we arrive at work we Thoy wear respirators at work had four days off over Christmas about the violation of her rules are not being properly have to change all our outer and their faces are smothered but no pay." frontler by aircraft; and Britain kept, and that America's vital clothes. On the job We wear with boracic powder, They

appears to be about to do some. interests arc

likely to becord jackets and trousers, with work in shifts of a week on and thing interesting to prevent the affected by the result.

out pockets, turn-ups or buttons. a week off, and are supplied with "It is not necessary to ima-No metal of any kind is allowed, fresh milk twice a day. sinking of her merchant ships.

gine that there has been any And what Mr. Arthur Davies, gudden conversion to League of writing from Geneva, has to Nations views. The resolution GRIN AND BEAR IT say about the United States is that Senator Nye is to move- interesting, too.

Mr. Davies says:

after consultation and agree. ment with Senator Pittman and "It is too early to predict with after obtaining the consent, confidence the success of the willingly given by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to withdraw very remarkable

move being

State opposition to the lifting of made in the United States to the embargo--will follow a re- lift the embargo on the export port on the present facts to be of arms to Government Spain drafted by the State depart- which has been in force since ment, showing what the effect, January 8, 1937, when Congress of allowing the import of arms:

The re- resolved to apply its neutrality into Spain would be. policy to both sides in the solution will have to run the

gauntlet of the Foreign Rela Spanish conflict. Perhaps the

tions Committee, Senate and most extraordinary fenture in House of Representatives, but is this business is to be found in expected, on

account of the

the personalities that are be-personalities behind it, to have hind it. Senator Key Pittman an easy passage.

is Chairman of the Foreign Ro- "Apparently what has dawned lations Committee of the upon the American mind is the Senate, and has hitherto been danger to its own democratic course that chiefly known for his unbending idealism in the

events opposition to meddling in other

are taking in Europe. people's

Americans feel so strongly that 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 to been regarded as a protagonist break away from their tradi Fof the Isolationist school. tional isolationism."

When the workers leave the 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-

Cept. 1735 by alios Prature Hyvävnin, kan.

"Hold on, Stug! We're diggin' in circles!”.

Secrecy is expected, George told me, but, he added, "We know so little about the business excopt our own little process. I have known men who have been shell-filling all their lives who know practically nothing about shells 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 got.

"I was glad to take it." It's a. ; living."