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BREWERY EMPLOYEES (if! PLENTY Of BEER TO DRINK—each brewery has its rules.—— ' ■ 1 — -What a privilege It is to -work in a brewery -where the amount of beer a man drinks is limited only by his capacity !According to the rules of the American brewing company their men can enter the tap room once each hour and stow away as much of the fluid as they detire. They are hired with this understanding. At some of the other breweries, checks are issued, each check being good for two drinks. They are given six of these and that limits them to 12 glasses per day. and the employees of other companies claim that they would simply die from thirst if subjected tosuch strenuous abstinence.The Chicago breweries are adopting the latter rule, for they find that the men are becoming very intemperate. They usually drink from 50 to GO glasses each day and some of them were literally drowning themselves in beer. The system which they have adopted limits themen to ten glasses per day.A. J. Krass, vice president of the American brewing company, claims that they have no trouble whatever with • their men along temperate lines. He said:‘‘We allow them to go into the tap room once each hour or more frequently, if they desire, and drink as much as they will. There is no other restriction placed upon them except that they must keep sober. If they don't they lose their jobs. I really believe this is the better plan. For if they are restricted and really want beer, it is easy enough to get it outside the brewery. As to the amount that the men consume—it isn’t worth speaking of. It is. perhaps, 23 or 30 glasses each day. The visitors to the plant drink more than the men. Tha office force is very temperate. Where there is so much of it made and one realizes the utter impossibility of drinking up all the beer in the world, the desire for it is reduced to a minimum.”
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Indianapolis Sun
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Tue, Feb 25, 1902
Page 5
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