HOW GERMANY ORGANISED HER INDUSTRIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2472, 27 May 1915, Page 5

HOW GERMANY ORGANISED HER INDUSTRIES

MACHINE-LIKE SYSTEM ANXIETY FOR THE FUTURE (Rec. May 26, 10.30 p.m.) London, May 26. A neutral correspondent, writing to "The Times," describes the industrial output of Germany. The output of pigiron, which was 1,600,000 tons monthly before the war, fell to 537,000 tons in August, but later rose to 940,000; tlio coal output was 268,000 tons in July, 97,000 tons in August, and eventually rose to 183,000 tons, though it had declined recently. When the war broke out many of tlio manufacturers lost their heads, and discharged masses of workmen, but tho German genius for organisation was brought into play, and every factory possible was transformed for the manufacture of war material, despite the small profit owing to the difficulty of training new workmen. The committee of the industrial leaders, however, eliminated the middlemen and finally controlled the whole of the industry of the Empire, overtook tlio distribution of war orders, and decided how best they 1 could \iso the available industrial forces and organise the supply of metals. ! Meanwhile war credit banks were i created, and were aided by an Imperial I grant to support the undertakings that i had been hard hit by the war. Labour exchanges distributed the ( available labour in tho most efrectne 1 manner, through a- control onion for the I whole Empire,' in which the employers r and empiovod wore equally represented. ( Despite'ihis success a real anxiety 1 for tho future is now traceable among f tho industrial leaders. The entry of c dip italics i ,,to war . l las c tho supply Of raw material, and the v countrv is feeling the .results of the t loss of DSC mi"'"'' sterling worth of c fitrriiin trade. J