The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1916. POST WAR PROBLEMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 59, 6 October 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post. WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6 , 1916. POST WAR PROBLEMS.

The Sydney Telegraph considers it is an encouraging sign to find industrial representatives in England beginning to discuss post-war economic problems "because, in the first place, it expresses a growing conviction that the end of tho war within a time that can reasonably be estimated is inevitable. In the second, it is a recognition that tho industrial conditions will have to be rigorously adapted to the wholly new circumstances which the war will create. Factors which have come into play in the war are the increased manufacturing activity and the extension of export trade by both the United States and Japan. A facwhieh has lain dormant owing to its dispossession from the sea has been tho industrial activity of Germany. All three will have to be met when the war is over. Whatever restrictions are imposed by the Allies on trade with Germany, they will not extoiia to neutrals, and it is among their populations that the German merchant will begin to ply his wares as sciv as the sea is open to him. The doctrine of a limitation on production might be fatal to the expansion of British industry against the competition of three powerful nations each anxious to widen the margin of its' commercial operations. The suggestion of Mr G. Roberts, the British M.P., that the workers in. Britain are equal to an increased output, but that they look for a friendly understanding with employers, covers part of the solution of the problem. The most critical period for industrial England, it is evident, .will come undoubtedly during the period of readjustment Immediately after the war, for it will settle the foundations of her disturboi trade with foreign countries.