GERMANY'S UNEMPLOYMENT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18207, 30 September 1933, Page 9

GERMANY'S UNEMPLOYMENT

“STRETCHING” PLAN MORE MEN TO DO SAME WORK A 40-HOUR WEEK Further interesting light is thrown today on the methods by which Germany .s unemployment is being reduced. In the'chief centre of the iron industry, the problem .is. being solved, not by creating new work, but ny stretching, as it is called here, that which already exists. More men are being . occupied for shorter hours to do the old jobs. This practice is clearly prescribed by a resolution of the association of iron and ste-el industrialists in north-west Germany. This organisation ‘‘urgently calls on members not to work their employees more than 40 hours a week. ‘•‘Any fresh contracts,” it says, ‘‘must as far "as possible be dealt wit li, not by lengthening hours, but by, taking on Iresh workmen and clerks.” A similar measure is to he expected in the Westphalian textile industry, say s tile Deutsche. Allgemeine Zcitung. This paper welcomes a procedure hitherto rendered impossible by “the misgivings demands, and hindrances of official quarters and trade unions.” Another business journal says that tin employers “may all the more readily adopt the new measures because they m longer need fear the burdens fixed by the Marxist spirit.” It- is possible that tin workmen are less delighted at this development. COMPULSION THREAT

“Every paying undertaking must In called upon to employ new hands,” said the principal speaker at a Nazi mass meeting here last night, “and il that is not done voluntarily it must be enforce! by compulsion. There must also be s law making it impossible for a husband to be a schoolmaster while his wjle n occupying another official post.” For the present, methods somewhat short of sheer compulsion are being usee; to attain this aim. In Hanover, for example, the representatives ol the Propaganda Ministry announce that once a week the papers of the proyinw will print a table of “owners,” giving tlie names of those “who have done then duty in the fight for work and bread. Moreover, employers who undertake t< keep on'their new hands at least till May 1 of next year, will receive an “honorific diploma” from the Nazi party. This document will also corner very definite material benefits, for only as holders will he admitted to tender tor municipal and communal contracts, ihe general public is also called upon to gixf these employers preference in its ordeis. MEN REPLACE WOMEN In some eases, governmental optimism as to the still dim future, has infected lending industrialists with full force. Thus, the firm of Krupps lias just placed fresh contracts for extensions and improvements, 'which bring, the total amount spent by it on “the promotion of the creation of work up to the considerable sum of about 0666,000. Another of the methods now generally in usp for the reduction of unemployment is well illustrated by a report issued by the. Zeiss optical works at Jena. This institution, all the profits of which go to public'services, has got rid oT 64 women hands, whose husbands or fat bets are able to support them, and filled the vacancies with unemployed men. In 16 cases, the women have been replaced by their own husbands. Ihe dismissed have received from the works compensation totalling) over TI2CO. ‘ Another novel method of fighting Herr Hitler’s great battle has been devised in Mecklenburg. Workers below the age of

25 are being turned out of their jobs in favor of older unemployed men, and occupied tinder the terms of “Labor service,” on the straightening out of the stream between Neu Brandenburg, and Treptow, an operation which will facilitate the exploitation of some hundreds of acros of water meadows GIRLS’ NAMES TAKEN What the law has left: to the Jews is gradually being taken from them by the Nazis in their unofficial capacity. A local leader of the party announces in one of its Hessian papers that black lists are to be published of all Ayrans who employ the Jewish lawyers still permitted' to practise in ihe courts. “Parties to suits who do not vet understand the meaning of thq national uprising will then,” lie says, “realise that their interests will be better served hv Aryan attorneys.” The same papers have already Ivegitn the publication of t lift names and ad-, dresses of Aryan girls who are seen in public places in the company of Jews,