Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-10-04
CONDITIONS IN
c. RMANY GOOD,
SAYS MINISTER
Country Has Its People Well.
Employed FOodStuffS Are
Plentiful and Resources I'M
impaired by Great War,
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Berlin, oct . t3:30 D. m. via The
Hague and London. Oct. 3, l:10 a. M
--.Gernanys position economically
and financially is such as will enable
her to carry the war to a successful
conclusion IN the opinion OF Vice
Chancellor Clemens Delbrueck. The
country cannot be starved out. dcclar-
ed the vice chancellor in a long inter-
view today
The unemployment was steadily de-
loreasing with from five million TO six
million men in the field he said.
Many industries were working over
time on war orders and measures had
been taken 70 divert labor from idle
branches to busy departments until
now the unemployed numbered only
from SIX to seven per cent of the
working men in the country
Measures have been taken also to
put the finances and the credit of
trade and industry on a war footing
and these have been so thoroughly
successful that a general moratorium
undoubtedly will be warded off dur
ing the entire war. said Herr Del
brueck. placing Germany in far bet
ter position after the war than that of
states whose Industrial life Is affected
by moratorium.
To See the War Through.
In opening the interview Vice Chan
cellor Delbrueck, who also holds the
office of imperial minister of the in
terror. referred to the demonstration
by representatives of labor, agricul-
ture, commerce, industry and trade of
September goth, of the determination
Of the German people to see the war
through to successful conclusion and
declared that this was no bluff but
was justified by the spirit ard prepa-
ration OF the country The crisis
which Immediately preceded HOSTILE
ties was quickly and completely over
come and now there was an album
dance of circulation media.
Herr Delbrueck then described the
loan institutions where funds may be
obtained on negotiable securities such
rs special war banks which have been
loaning to mortgage holders, small
traders, manufacturers and artisans
until now no class is without an OPP
portunity of adequate credit. Ac-
cordingly, he said, there was no nee
csyty for general moratorium to
which resort has been had by all other
combatants as we'll as by some neutral
zone serious consequence of the
said the vice chancel-
lor, was the lack of employment de-
spite the fact of the call to the colorH
bodied men from the Industrial field
into that army. The idleness was due
TO the fact that the curtailing Of in
lustries caused local unemployment. !
rhe provincial employment agencies
then were merged in an imperial em-
ployment bureau with the immediate I
result that the problem Of employment
was solved by putting the man and
lob together
Labor and capital, conservative. I
socialist and liberal trades unions, /
nave worked hand-in-hand in the in /
erests of the fatherland with the inn J.
leral labor conference. As an eff
'ient intermediary, the bureau has OBJ
aimed harvest workers who are gath
ring Germany's promising harvest
rhls is an instance showing how the
oh and the man have been brought :,
ogether The same IN true in the
mining and ship-building industry
In the textile industries, the hours
# labor have been shortened, the
rades unions working most efficiently
m the equalization. They have Sc
ected only men adapted for the kind
# work assigned by the imperial labor :
ureau. Thus of the sixteen thousand {
nen sent to east Prussia at the open J
ng of the war to labor on fortifica
ions. not a single man proved unfit.
Behind battling armies we must
ave only contcnted people. Commu- {
tiles must take steps to have the pop
lation employed despite the war not {
flowing suffering and distress. and !
roviding employment on various pup {
c works such as railroad and canal !
and the draining of swamps. /
he latter Improvement is resulting e
, the conservation pf waste land I