"UNSPEAKABLE DISTRESS."

Clutha Leader, Volume XLI, Issue 41, 4 December 1914, Page 8

"UNSPEAKABLE DISTRESS."

A few words about the economic side of the war, which is making iteelt very seriously felt in Germany (writes a correspondent of the lJa.iy Mail'). August 25, three weeks after the declaration of war, the "\ orwaerts' was allowed to print that in Berlin there were 100,000 people out of work. Here are some particulars: 400 bakers, over 2300 navvies, 3158 bookbinders, 4000 printers, 1160 printers' apprentices, 800 factory hands, 105 barbers, 750 cafe and 6mall hotelkeepers, 800 hatmakers, 14,000 carpenters, 11,000 metal workers, 900 saddlers, 2000 tailors, 1200 carpet-makers, 1000 textile workers, 5000 transport workers, 1000 lithograph workers, 2700 house painters, 185 leather workers, etc. The magistracy has adopted a policy of "thian.ng out" the city owing to the distress. August 24: 700 workmen were sent to various parts of the country, 200 followed on August 27. Private people have been officially admonished to give all succour possible. Soup kitchens have been established. In Berlin after dark all traffic has been stopped. The number of men out of work in the transport trade was estimated at 60,000 in afl Germany. The tailor industry'is in the direst distress. Then the 'fcreuz-Zei-tuntf wrote (August Vsl) that the increasing destitution ''threatened to constitute an inner danger, and every means must be taken to provide work and food for the mobs of «•» «ad women sal of work." ft I