The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-25
AUSTRALIA AFTER TRADE FOLLOWING
 WAR IN EUROPE
Nation Prepares to Seek Post -Bel1um Profits from
 Commerce.

question of pOSt-bellum trade, Wnlch
 is being considered by all the Entente
 Allies, is receiving it's share of atten- ton in Australia.
 The Federal Parliament has already annulled certain metal contracts un-. ] der which German concerns gathered
 supplies of ores from Australian mines
 and had entered largely into the con-
 duct of the mining industry in the Commonwealth. It has furthermore
 set out to insure that smelting of na- tive ores shall be done in Australia so that by the time the war is over the local smeIting plants shall be in dependent of German works of the kind. The Federal Government has 1 also tackled the complicated ques- ton of patents held by German firms or individuals and has removed from them the protection of the British crown on the principle that that pro-. lection had been abused; and certain firms declared to be .fenemy firms have been shut off from further bus mess while others of suspected quasi enemy character have been obliged to purge themselves of reputed or proven German or Austrian influences, person. al and monetary.
 But it is being urged that private and individual steps in the directions indicated have so far amounted to all most nothing, and that chambers of commerce and of manufactures should enter more heartily into the campaign. Notwithstanding there have been speeches, interviews and suggestions by business men of more or less prom thence all over Australia and trade fairs and like affairs have been held to give point to the cry for trade within the empire'' and sshome man ufacture and consumption" the net eff feet it is contended has been small Recently the Sydney Chamber of Com merce adopted this resolution which may be taken as fair example of ac- ton by their similar bodies in other parts of the Commonwealth:
 That this chamber places on record with a view to stimulating and increas- ing production within the empire, and thereby to some extent casing the enor- nous financial burdens forced upon us by the nations at present at war with us, it's desireN to cooperate with any practical proposals for the en- couragement of trade within the en- pire and believes that the imposition of a. surtax on goods manufactured within the territories of such nations will be the most effective means to at tain this end.
 saThat the British and Australian governments be urged to cooperate with the manufacturing industries by establishing laboratories and centers of scientific research such to be avail able to manufacturers throughout the empire.'
 Scientific management as it is
 nown in the United States and is prac- tised in Germany has been agitated in Australia before the war broke out: but on the whole the principles of it had met with a cold reception. Now it is coming to the fore with an em- phasis derived directly from the war; but what will be the outcome time alone can tell, since the average em- ployer in Australia believes that he has little to learn on this score; he is ham pered, by state-sociaist laws and the powerful trades unions hold to the view that scientific management is merely anothe- name of exploitation of the working classes 2
 Then there is the matter of shipping with which in the case of Australia it is said a heavy blow could be dealt German commerce after the war should Britain, the British dominiorTs1 ions overseas and the Allies of Great Britain resolve upon a policy of pen a1ization. The Commonwealth has a coast line as great that of the United States it is a heavy importer and it maintains huge water-borne traffic with Europe. Asia, and Ameri- ca- On this point the Australasian> section by a British Chamber of Com merce committee:
 Evidence brought before us his disclosed the extent to which enemy shipping has been subsidized by the German government mainly for the benefit. of the export trade in com petition with British, neutral or Allied shipping-a fact which has been brought home in connection with the large quantities of goods of British ownership contained in enemy yes sells taking refuge or detained in neu- tral ports since the declaration of war; The trade sections with practi- 4f lyi 1Ixy agree that substantial tax I@viabIe by the states of the empire should be inn posed upon the tonnage of all enemy ships using the ports of the empire after the war"