The Cairo bulletin., 1907-04-29
EMPEROR SHOWS
. FREE TRADE EVIL
IMPORTS ouTroF-WoRks To
DEMONSTRATE MlSERiES IN
UNPROTECTED COUNTRY
STARVING TOILERS
From England Exhibited to Bring
Home Fact That it is Only
Country Where Thousands
of Idle Men are Found.


London April %, The Kaiser has
just administered a striking lesson in
protection, as contrast d with free
trade, TO the dock laborers of Ham
burg, and through them TO the work
ing classes of Germany as whole.
He has done this by means OF the inn
portation OF 5000 laborers from Eng
land, who have taken the places Of the
locked out workmgn, and enabled the
ship owners to win the struggle.
The Kaiser's organizing friend and
| demonstration in practical political
economics. Herr Ballin. chief of the
great Hamburg American line, has
CONS to the conclusion that his lit-
tie lesson to the discontinued German
workmen has been sufficiently well
enforced. In few days more at most
! they win be permitted to return 70
| th5ir work, with a clearer view as to
the side upon which their bread is
/ buttered.
British Unemployed is Factor.
The men readily admit that it is
England's enormous production Of I'M
employed which has enabled the EN-
ployers to smash their organization
TIL process Of repatriation OF the
English workmen will soon begin, and
the Kaiser's great Hamburg spring eX
| position Of English free trade export
products, having served its instruc
tive purpose. will close The com
pound ships in which the exhibits
have be ii housed will be dismanteled
and the upwards of three thousand
Englishmen will be reshipped TO the
country Of heir origin.
Herr BALM, who is the master spirit
of the masters organization, has
been for days in position at any mo
ment he choos TO dictate his own
terms of settlement. But he has not
yet chosen the moment 1t is moi
enough that the men should be heat
en-; they must have time fully u
r alize and leisure to ponder over the
causes of their defeat So for some
days longer, until instructions arrive
from Berlin, the German steyedoree
must get along as best they may on
the twelve marks a we X strike pay
provided by the Social Democratic
party.
Lesson For All Germany
The little lesson is no addressed
solely to the few thousand Socialist
infected, disconten9 i Hamburg
steyedores. 1t is Intended 10 be com
pretended by the German working
elesses throughout the length and
breath Of the empr That the main
tenance Of the locked out men is i'm
pos. ing severe strain upon the Social
Democratic funds already sadly de
plted by the great expenses OF the
disastrous election campaign, is con
sidered good. But it is better still tel
give the masses of industrial Germany
an illustration of what the chief So
cialist panacea, free trad really
means.
II Is impossible % imagine more
effective manner of giving this illus
tration than by introducing amid the
lopulence Of the great port Of Ham
burg. VIII Sc rapid development and
mary lc prosperity are a monument
to the Kaiser's fostering care the con
rasting spectacle Of hordes of hungry
voorhees, wrefches from free trade
/ England It is a spectacle intendei
Ito make IN German workman think
and il is masing him tnink. The
Kaiser's little lesson is being wei
rubbed in The English unemployed
have been exhibited as much as pos
sihle and every m ans has been
ladopted to advertise their presence,
the fac that they were Englishmeu
being always carefully brought home
Many Out Of Work in Britain.
The British workingman viii no.
lfaH TO draw the moral from this sin
gular affair. He has learned that Eng
Aland is the only country in the whole
lof Europe where. under the present
prosperous conditions Of trade. IN
lemployed are o be found by the thou
sand. Herr Balm and the German
lship owners searched Germany.
France. and Austria high and low for
unemployed labor. yet found none.
II was to England that they were
compelled to come.
This f. the more significant when
we remember that England IS the one
free trade country in Europe always
excepting T~rlcy. In Germany for
the past ihree years the number Of
unemployed has been steadily declin.
ing. tin today there are practically
gone but sick men ont Of work
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