GERMAN ENGINEERING.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18487, 15 September 1925, Page 12

GERMAN ENGINEERING.

ACTIVE INDUSTRY. The Iref.-ival of German, trade wafi referied to by Sir Percival Phillips, 3 member of the Empire Press Delegation, in an interview- at Sydney laet -week. "X was in 3issen recent.y, and- observed the recovery of the German engineering industry, which is reaching out its. powerful hands and grasping back the trade it lost during the war," said Sir Percival. "A German worker who is making £2 per week is doing well. There is no standard of living, and a» long as he is assured of potatoes and beer then he ie a happy, industrious n-.an. In France, too, there is littlo -unem--plormenl. "But, of Britain, one tells another etory. There is unemployment—terrib'e unemployment —and there is the iniquitous system of the dole, which, far from relieving the situation, tends to aggravate it, for there are many men only too willing to cease work when they can make a comfortable income cut of unemployment. > "Is England recovering? Wetl, yea; she is recovering, tut slowly. The trade which ehe Lost during the war to America is going, not back to her, but to .Germany. I wen» recentlv over the dockyards in the North and I "found that many of them were without work. On the other hand, Germany is like a, beehive. I do not wish to paint too pessimistic a pioture of the position, but there. araJacta wa nzuati.iac***'