The Sentinel=record., 1917-05-29

Perograd, May 2S, Via London, May 29, l.o5 d. m.-The industrial crisis in Russia is ,o acuJe that according to 8 recen uttcrauce of the minister of finance NJ. ShiusarolG on a miracle can save tue country from economic run Thv demands Of the worNneu were SO euormoJ-. he declared. tblt it seemed impossible 10 keep the indus uIdl wheels goine for any great length o- time
 The so..alis. minister at a recent council said the only possibility they saw of settling the difficulties was to bring the Var to close
 Neither the coalition cabinet nor the newly appointed commission to reg late ,hc difficulties between capital and labor has yet ,omd a Wa. 10 end the indus rial crisis
 The commission Is composed of min
 ster- of finance industry and abo~. Int since there j. a wide divergence ot views between the minister of i- nance and the new socialistic minister of labor u -eems probable This com mission will be confronted wim the same difficulties wh oh attended preyi ous efforts at reconciliation
 An uycsua8tion of factory coudr tion- u potograd leads ,o the alarm ing conclusion that unless thr govern meut 500 minds means of adjusting
 he pre- au difficulties most Of the u- destrial enterprises working for na- toual defense will be compelled t0 close within a few months The out standing features of the abor situa ion are as lollows
 An Investigation shows that yirtuol ly the same difficulties prevail in all the big fac.or.e m PeUograd and ap pareutly authenticated reports from the Mos. CON- DOnets and Utal districts indicate general diSorganizatou. u4 many of he Factories the demands by rho wOrbmeu for increased wages as- uaUy are greater than the entire prof its of the factories under the best col- duIous ol production. The workmeu through their committees, virtually are G command of the factories and all business has 10 be submitted to taen for approval. Wages in a majority Of tue factories already have been in- creased from 10o to l5o per cent But there vet Ina. been no otfse. by an 0u. vance in prices of the output.
 In one of thc works in Perograd the worhmeu recently demanded tnp immediate payment Of l3,oo0,o0o rubies normally $G500o00--.o cover au in- crease of 15 kopeks an hour for eacu workman since the beginning of the war. The directors communicated with the government and asked 10 be placed under voluntary arrest as protection again-r the threats of the workmen, which as usual accompanied the de mand. The directors for two days were housed in the ministry of justice. The government finally nrormed the diree. tors that the matter would he consid- cred and with the demand of the work men held temporarily in abeyance, the returned tO tue factory.
 An eighthour day has become ei- fectiye in all factories. According to the estimate of a leading manulacJur- CT. the output of these factories ho- sulte0e da naverage decrease of 10 per cent since the revolution lie eN' planed that gd these concerns were confronted Ni9l an imm nent shortage 1f raw materas and win bankruptcy.
 Not ony agyr che prices ot produc- tIoOn no. r1 the advance in wages. bat plymeV has been SO slow that m. dstry l. \ wgen need Of worbns capitaI d. Gaaler- find 1t dlWcult to borrow dlouey as tLc banks natural