Many changes took place in the lives of factory workers during these decades. The number of foreigners decreased rapidly, and their place was taken by Hungarian specialists and masters. During the World Wars, women and young people could also work in the factory. The top of the factory hierarchy was still the design engineers, and at the bottom were the students and apprentices. Real shipyard dynasties were created, proud of their generations-long affiliation with the shipyard. In their free time, the shipyard workers visited the local restaurants to relax and they formed various table societies there. Most of the workers were Roman Catholic. The core of the Evangelical community in Óbuda was the Protestant German and Slovak workers of the shipyard. There was a small number of Jewish workers in the factory and they were allowed to work freely until 1938. During the difficult period – especially during the years of the crisis – the number of employees dropped permanently, and climbed back to 1,000 only at the end of the 1930s.
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