ITALY’S GUILDS’ WORK

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

ITALY’S GUILDS’ WORK

BRINGING TRADES UP TO DATE. There is much interest in the working of the Italian Guilds, but little authentic information is published about them. The Ministry of Guilds exercises a real co-ordinating and regulating power in the general interest of the community. 'The question of opening new industrial plants is referred to a special Commission on which the trades concerned are represented. This Commission in March considered 57 applications; 27 were approved and 1? rejected, and for 10 a supplementary inquiry was ordered. This Commission judges whether the proposals submitted for enlarging industrial equipment are in keeping with actual market conditions and requirements. Permission is only refused when inquiry shows there is no need of modifying existing plants, the purpose being tc safeguard the public interest, not to protect existing business concerns. If the equipment of a given industry is old-fashioned the decision of the Commission is guided by. the general interest so that industries may be equipped on up-to-date lines. In certain branches of industry the opening of new plants is essential to progress whenever technical Improvetnients suggest the introduction of new processes or allow of the manufacture of new products.