MISCELLANEOUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 27 May 1915, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

GERMANY'S INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT.

WONDERFUL ORGANISATION OF WORKERS.

ANXIETY FOE THE FUTURE NOW APPARENT. "

LONDON, May 26. A neutral correspondent of the Times describes the industrial output of Germany. Pig-iron, which was 1,600,000 w? nS 0? y- bef. ore the way>fell to t cfflvJ, 0"8 m 4, veust; later Jt rose to 940,000 tons. .Coal, which was 268,: 000 tons m July, was 97,000 in August and eventually 183,000, though it has declined recently. When the war broke out many manufacturers lost their .heads and discharged masses of workmen, but the German genius for organisation was brought into play and every factory possible was transformed for the manufacture of war material despite the small profit owing to the difficulty of. training new workmen. A committee of industrial leaders, however, eliminated the middlemen, and finally controlled the whole industry of the empire, took over the distribution of war. ordtrs, and decided that the best use the available industrial forces could bo put to was the organised supply of metals..

Meanwhile war credit banks were created, aided by an Imperial grant to *-.'.» port undertakings hard hit b- the **•:.. Labor exchanges distributed the a\a?<*6le labor in the most effective manner from a central office' for - tha whole empire, in which' employer* and employed were equally represented. Despite this success real anxiety for the future is now. +raceab 1c among industrial leaders. The entry of-Italy has stpnped the supply of raw materials, and the country is feelinor, the resulte of.; the/ loss-• pf £9^Q0O;O0Q of foreign trade.