INDUSTRIAL ADVISER

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22212, 15 March 1934, Page 9

INDUSTRIAL ADVISER

A GERMAN APPOINTMENT CONTROL OF TWELVE GROUPS. BERLIN, March 13. The Government has created Under-electrical-engineer' Philip Kessler as Herr Hitler's industrial adviser in an organisation controlling 12 trade groups into which industry is divided. A solicitor, Count von der Glotz, is Kessler's deputy. Herr Krupp von Bohlen, president of the German Industrial League, is appointed leader of the mining group. Herr Blohm, of Blohm and Voss, heads the machinery and electrical industry. The industrialist, Herr Vogler, controls the building and glass industry group. Banking, insurance, transport, chemicals, foodstuffs, iron, and metal also form groups. All firms belonging to the groups must submit group orders under a Court of Honour regarding legitimate competition. "MUST OBEY ORDERS." /'.'.., LONDON, March 14. (Received March 14, at 11 p.m.) The Daily Mail's Berlin correspondent says: "The supreme head of the trade organisation in Germany is the Minister of Commerce (Herr Schmitt), who in announcing Herr Kessler's appointment declared that the days when the manufacturer and the banker were independent had departed. Germany's industry was now on a leadership basis and must obey orders in the interests of the community." NAZI RULE IN FACTORIES. BERLIN, March 14. (Received March 14, at 11.50 p.m.) Explaining the trade group, Herr Schmitt (Minister of Economics) said that hitherto every business concern had gone its own way. The new plan was purely constructive, and. was not intended to affect the fortunes of small concerns or eliminate competition, but it had become essential to ensure that individual efforts would be used for the general good. The new system leaves private profits untouched, but s courts of honour will decide the legitimacy of competition. The leadership has been placed in the hands of men who have accepted the principles of Herr Hitler. Meanwhile Nazi rule is being established insitfe factories, and it is the Nazi Labour organisation's duty to settle questions of hours, wages, and kindred matters.