Betty B.
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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Labor has been brought in from Italy, Spain, Algeria, and Tunis,
I see Poles and Russians among the workmen, and the street markets are crowded with people of all races and tongues.
The mayor here, a delightful, kind-faced old man who went with me over the town, was in office before its destruction.
He was carried off to Belgium by the Germans and was the first to get back to the ruins when the enemy left.
His wife had remained in Linz.
When he returned, he found his city a mass of crushed bricks and mortar.
Its great power plants had been reduced to a debris, a broken machinery, while the mines and their workings had been systematically ruined by high-power explosives.
The pumps had to work day and night to remove millions of cubic feet of water accumulated in the mine pits.
To keep out the inflowing streams, many of them have been lined with concrete walls at a cost of something like $300,000 a pit.
The homes for the thousands of men employed in the coal mines about Lenz are far better than any of the miners' homes I know in our country, with the exception of those in the Minnesota Iron Region, back of Duluth.
There, the profits of the municipalities from the leased mining lands are so great that they have better school buildings and public improvements than in any other part of the United States.
Here, each miner has a little garden where he can raise vegetables enough for his family.
Coal, electric, light, and water are free, and the only lack, perhaps, is a bathroom.
The average house of this country is without a bath.
The mining corporation puts up a community bathhouse for every neighborhood and gives free medical service to the miners and their families.
The houses belong to the company and are rented to the miners for about a dollar per family per month.
Before the war, the mines about Lenz produced about one-tenth
of all the coal output of France.
Their annual yield was some 4,500,000 tons.
Then the mine owners employed 18,000 men who occupied 8,000 houses.
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