TAXED OUT OF A LIVING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 645, 23 October 1909, Page 5

TAXED OUT OF A LIVING.

. » ; GERMAN TOBACCO-WORKERS. . IBs Telecniph.-l'rosj As.Mi!latlun.-C.ior'rlcM.i 1 Berlin, October 21. Tea thousand tobacco-workers have been dismissed in Germany, and' moro will bo dismissed when the Christmas rush is over. Many who were given work on the BerlinStettin Canal-wero obliged to discontinue owiim to physical .unfitness:'- ' : • . .'■ THE £200,000 DOLE. ' lOwing to the expected diminution of tobacco* production, due. to increased taxes, the German' I'inanco Bill provided the States with JESOOOUO' among tobacco-Workers, -who; might become unemployed owing to: the operation of the new taxes. When the increased duties on cigars,and cigarettes, with a coust-' quent raising of prices, camo into forco, it caused a remarkable recrudescence of pipes iu the streets of Berlin, whence pipe-smoking had been almost entirely banishe/lor some years-i-ho typical German old-fashioned long pipes with porcelain bowls, however, gave place to imitations of. English briars and cherrywood pipes. .-;'',:- ; . , ■ ■-; - .;-,,.; „■£ cablegram : dated October. 12 '."stated r~Mevenhundred eniployeoshavo been dismissccl- - -Hamburg, owing to slackness,of work causec' by .-the tobacco.,duty.- Other : .dismissals aH ;' pending. .Workmen's associations havo appealed t n? noS?™* to "Welerato distribution of the .£200.000. promised on' account of ho anticipated dismissals." ' \ '■■ ".-