THE GLASS INDUSTRY.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 December 1918, Page 5

THE GLASS INDUSTRY.

GERMAN TRADE MENACE. Germany hopes to obtain a nionoj poly of several industries of world-wide [ importance, after the war. Chemicals are the first of the manufactures on which she will concentrate; then conics glass. “The reason for the choice of glass” rites Mr John Stokes, chairman of the Glass Industry Interim Industrial j Reconstruction Committee, to a Lon- ! don paper, "is that it is a key to the gate of many other industries. A nation holding the monopoly of glass could hold up nearly all other trades. We can make hardly anything without using glass at some stage of its manufacture, even if glass is not an actual part of the finished product. We of the glass industry fear that the policy of the ‘open door’ may be carried to such an extent that the British glass industry may become extinct. We ask that it be given the chance of full development and that a ‘key’ industry be saved from the hands lof the Germans, who arc determined I to capture it at all costs because it is '- ' : k; T- ’ ’