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explaining all operations. All workers [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] are French Canadians, some of them boys of about [[red underlined]] 14 to 16 [[/red underlined]] years.
The assorting and gauging is done by [[red underlined]] girls. [[/red underlined]] He tells me the latter get [[red underlined]] one dollar a day, [[/red underlined]] which is much lower than similar worker paid in U.S.
I notice in each room, [[red underlined]] image of Holy Virgin or some Saint and electric little bulb illuminating them. Medals and charms everywhere. [[/red underlined]] 
Yesterday at a store I saw [[red underlined]] holy medals to be screwed [[/red underlined]] on automobiles so as to protect [[red underlined]] against accidents! [[/red underlined]] Very much like in [[red underlined]] Belgium and France.[[/red underlined]] 
Then we went to [[strikethrough]] place [[/strikethrough]] another factory where shells are filled [[strikethrough]] ano [[/strikethrough]] [[red underlined]] with explosives [[/red underlined]] and tested. Here again all work performed by girls,
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same holy medals, and charms.- They tell me there are very few accidents. Am astonish to see [[red underlined]] cordite [[/red underlined]] charges weighed by [[red underlined]] handscales [[/red underlined]] one after another. Rather [[red underlined]] time-robbing [[/red underlined]] process.
[[red underlined]] Dr. McIntire [[/red underlined]] near by was supervising a squad of men who are making [[red underlined]] fulminate of mercury [[/red underlined]] in open air in ordinary cylindrical stoneware pickle-jars. Operations reduced to their simplest expression.
Pouring first mercury in the Jar then nitric acid, then alcohol, [[red underlined]] all this handled and ladled about in a rather primitive fashion, [[/red underlined]] the white fumes turning now and then reddish and the men in shirt sleeves, working among the fumes and dodging them according to every shift of the