TOON IN GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 9

TOON IN GERMANY

A GROWING OUTPUT

. Despite the fact that world production of crude iron is estimated to have fallen from 104,200,000 tons during 1937 to- 82,200,000 tons this year, ajid world production of crude steel from 135,900,000 to 109,200,000 tons, Germany during the same period greatly in* creased her production in these fields, wrote the Berlin correspondent of ,the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post" on December 29.

This fact is disclosed by the 'Berliner Tageblatt" today. It is estimated that the crude iron production . of Greater Germany with her present frontiers was 18,600,000 tons this year, compared with last year's output in the same1 areas of 15,958,000 tons. An increase of 550,000 tons is shown by Austria, while the "old Reich" recorded an increase 6f more than'

2,000,000 tons. Greater Germany's crude steel production for 1938 is estimated at 23.300,* 000 tons, compared with a production in the "old Reich" of 19.849,000 tons during 1937. In the "old Reich" alone the increase was 2,700,000 tons.

Britain, which is placed fourth in' the list of the world's greatest iron and steel-producing countries—behind the United States. Germany, and Russia—records a drop in the production of crude iron to 6.900.000 tons during 1938, as compared with 8,629.000 tons in 1937. Her crude steel production decreased from 13.455.000 tons to 10,900,000 tons. It was recently announced in the , official Reich Gazette that, regulations against the employment of .juvenile labour on nightl shifts are to be re» laxed until March 31 in steel work* metal building works, spring factories shipyards, and similar concerns dealing with iron and steel. - Adult workers in the iron and steel industry may now' be called upon lt& -work overtime up ;to a maximum week* ly total of 54 hour*.