THE GERMANS AND LABOR OUTLOOK.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 November 1919, Page 5

THE GERMANS AND LABOR OUTLOOK.

, Trustworthy reports from CtafßHgH | published in English papere lait om|H indicated that in some respects workers were showing a more ibteUU£9 appreciation of the economic sitOMNH than those of Britain, America, and otßfl countries, New Zealand among They understand that only increaieifimfl duction can save Germany, and thatvol 13 incompatible with reduced hours ofljjH bour. They arc also said to be recogtnfl ing that higher wages do not neceiumffl improve conditions, since they only Iliwß to raise the cost of living all round. a standard eight-hour day is not rudnl as affording sufficient opportunityfßß the urgently-needed production, credible though it may sound, vorapnH in many places are demanding a tat4jjMH day. The "Vossische Ze it ling" mtnfibsfl that the employees of the WurteiofanM railway recently decided to work aaJMjfl ditional ten hours weekly in ordajFtM lessen the coal crisis. Already in of the potash mines of Westphalia ihjfl output is greater than before the W*rjß Commercially and economically, GtorntWiH is in a "serious position, but the attUwul of her workers affords some ground the German belief that the country weather its troubles more quickly Qui will Britain, with whom the ever-inoisa*S ing cost of production is not by any corresponding increase in quantity produced. ' iRjM