The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-08-25
LABOR MARKET
OF GERMANY: !:
steps Have Been Taksn 10 Take
Cars Of the Workers Who
Return From
War.
TO GET OLD POSITIONS.
German Trenches Have secret Pas
sases Which Tunnel Under
the Enemys
Lines.
TO GET OLD POSITIONS
IBy Carl W. Alderman United Press

0IdK1 SOTI6SVOuuSutJ
BERLIN, July Is, (By Mail to New
York. Germany is preparing her
labor market for peace times. At a
lOr Won Bethmann-Holwegg. represent
and German labor unions decided that
something must be done now to oh
tain work for five million soldiers
when the war is over.
Although this was only the initial
meeting the delegates practically de-
termined upon a plan OF work similar
to President Wilson's endeavors in
behalf OF the unemployed in the Unit
ed States. It was decided that there
should be established throughout
Germany information bureaus giving
names Of employers who want work
ers and other facts which would as
sist the laborer in determining wheth-
er such q position was the one he
wished The employers announced
their intention OF re-employfng men
who are now serving II they should
wish their former positions. In all
the plans 1t was agreed that the labor
unions. employer ORGANIZATIONS and
the government should cooperate so
that Germany will not have an army
OF unemployed when the war Is over.
Minister of Interior l3eubrueck pre-
sided at the conference which was
held in the reichstag. In his opening
address he declared that the whole
question OF the labor market at the
conclusion of peace would be deter
mined BY the facilities for giving In
formation to dischared soldiers. He
en- phasized the need OF information
bureaus.
Ar.one the man, proposals was
one that all those seeking employ
ment be allowed free transportation
Ion the railroads. This was regarded
as favorable because In Germany
the railroads are owned and opepated
by the government. Another sugges-
I ton Was that all ex-soldiers be per-
mitted special telephone and tele-
graph rate while they are seeking a
position. sA:sNU
One OF the chief concerns of the
war Is over Representatives OF the
agricultural classes declared they
I did not think the German fields could
be tilleis after the war unless there
were foreign .labofers for today there
are q large number Of war prisoners
helping there.
| when Minister Delbrneck suggest
ed discussion as to what wages
should be paid invalid soldiers 1t was
taken as matter OF course that in
valids would be given their former
positions and former wages unless
the workers were entirely incapaci-
ttai ed.
First Line German Trench. North
| arn France. May 8: (By Mail to New
York. Passed by German Censor. May
i14)-Under many sections OF the
French trenches here the Germans
have tunnels in which mines can be
exploded II the allies start an offcn-
| sive in this locality. Accompanied
!. by an underofficer crawled on hands
and knees thirty yards, guided by an
electric flash light to the end of ons
LOT these holes. was cautioned be.
/ fore we entered that not word was
to be spoken and that I should be
careful to make an little noise as pos
sfble in the straw covering the
| ground.
For a few seconds. which seemed
as long as hours, we sat at the tun-
nel's end. We could hear the Ger
| man artillery opening the morning
| fire on the French positions. We
waited few seconds more. listen
ed AS patiently as my nerves would
! permit pat, pat, pat, pat, pat" Eut
the sound meant nothing to me. Next
| came short dull thuds-a sound that 1
| had never heard. The underofficer
/! flashed the lamp again and pointed
| to a smaller hole into which obvious.
| ly bomb was to be placed when It
became necessary to GLOW up that
| trench. ~
must have looked frightened as
we crawled out for the officers began
Immediately to laugh. AS soon as
we were safe in the trenches
asked what those noises meant. The
first, said my guide, was the SOUND
/ OF the footsteps OF French soldiers.
The second was the vibration Of the
ground when the French soldiers
drove nails In the wooden lining OF
the trench,
Escorted by a dozen GermaN off,
cers We walked further through the
trenches. A German soldier was fir
ing through an armoured protection
! at the French lines. Ask that fell
low what he's shooting att" the col
onel said to the underofficer. And
after that there was scant activity
| from our side OF the trench, the Off
GERS desiring to draw as little firing
from the French as possible, while
we were there.
For three hours afterward We walk.
ed through several miles OF first
German trenches. To the top of
this the German soldiers had con-
struc.ed steps. We climbed to the
top and looked through armoured GOV.
erings at the French trenches stretch
ing like snake trough the field De-
fore US. Looking backward the Ger.
man trenches looked like another
snake-for all trenches wind in and
out.
Entering the forest. German field