TRADE GROUPS

Wairarapa Age, 15 March 1934, Page 5

TRADE GROUPS

GERMAN NATIONAL RECOVERY CODE. CONTROL OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE. .VARIOUS HEADS APPOINTED. BERLIN, March 13. The Government has created, under the electrical engineer, Philip Kessler, Hitler’s industrial adviser, an organisation controlling twelve-trade groups into which industry and commerce will be divided. A solicitor, Count- von der Glotz, is Kessler’s deputy; Herr Krupp von Bohlen, president of the German Industrial League, has been appointed leader vf the mining group; Herr Blohm, of Blohm and Voss, heads the machinery and eltetrical industry. The industrialist, Herr Vogler, controls the building and glass industry group. Banking, insurance, transport, chemicals, foodstuffs, iron and metals will also form groups. All firms belonging to the groups must submit to group orders under a Court of Honour regarding legitimate competition. LEADERSHIP BASIS. INDUSTRY MUST OBEY ORDERS. (Received Wednesday, 7 p.m.) LONDON, March 14. 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 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. SYSTEM EXPLAINED. PLAN PURELY CONSTRUCTIVE. (Received Wednesday, 11.5 p.m.) BERLIN, March 14. Explaining the trade group system, 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 to eliminate competition but to become an essential to ensure that individual efforts would be used for the general good. The new system left private profits untouched, but Courts of Honour would decide the legitimacy of competition. The leadership was placed in the hands of men who had accepted the principles of Hitlerism. Meanwhile, Nazi rule was being established inside factories. It was the Nazi labour organisations’ duty to settle questions of hours, wages and kindred matters. NAZIS SENT TO GAOL. ATTEMPT' TO EXTORT MONEY. (Received Wednesday, 7 p.m.) DARMSTADT, March 13. Otto Ernst and his wife, both Nazis, were sentenced to a year and thirty months’ imprisonment respectively, deprived of citizenship for five years and expelled from the Nazi Party for attempting to extort payment from a Jewish family for smuggling money across the frontier.