INTERDEPENDENCE OF INDUSTRIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 55, 31 October 1914, Page 4

INTERDEPENDENCE OF INDUSTRIES.

Tho fact is often overlooked that the finished articles of one industry are the raw materials of another. This is a vital fact and therefore no one nation is, or can he independent of another. For instance, says the Mercantile Gazette, our meat companies include in their by-products sliped wool, basils, skins and hides. They as tho finished products of tho freezing industry, and yet they, raw materials of other industries. Aliped wool is just now in demand for the manufacture of khaki

doth, ami so the finished product of the meat company is the raw material of the cloth ‘manufacturer. The khaki cloth in turn becomes the raw material of the manufacturers of uniforms, and go.it goes ou - All international trade is at base an exchange of goods, and the war has cut this exchange and caused almost universal suffering.