El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-13

/ Rhenish- Westphalia industrial dis
I trict, and these. the government Is in
formed in memorial. will result in
] practical starvation for the heavy
/ workers. 1t is iudisputable that the
! smelters and miners cannot possibly
exist on the general rations. The
management Of the works perceived
! this, and everyone now knows that
/ the buyers Of the large works used 10
Z obtain food by illegal means for dis
[ tributiOn 10 the workers This is now
! stopped
But unfortunately the government
I has done nothing to replace this food
: The food supplied by the communes
I Industries, and so starvation in lit
] eral sense Is drawing near. The IN
: rest in the industrial districts Is
thereby increased. and in certain
/ works spontaneous strikes have oc-
CURED independent OF the Berlin
movement a sufficient supply for
/ the workers is the first necessity for
holding out If IL was possible TO
/ procure food Illegally, the food is
Tiers, and the government must get
hold Of it,. If IL comes to the worst,
the reserve potatoes must be distrlb-
uted The government must take
speedy steps, for there is not min
ute 10 lose"
Food Profteer Busy.
That the highest authorities realize
the force Of this argument is shown
by the mild attitude taken by the
food controller, Herr Won Waldow. in
q secret meeting Of the war food
board at which representative OF the
large firms that had thus Illegally
purchased food were present These
firms not only drove up food prices
by competition. and purchased all
goods far above the maximum prices,
but they also sold the surreptitious
food to their employees at still higher
prices. Won WaldOW. in public. had
stated that all such offences would
be ruthlessly punished
At the private meeting he asked the
great firms to submit to him lists or
all the illegal food contracts they had
made. These contracts he said can
be carried out. and no prosecutions
viii follow, but no new ones are to
be concluded, and Won Waldow prom
ised that the war food board viii in
future itself procure the needed extra
food and allOt il TO the firms This
means that the war workers are to be
fed more at the expense OF the al
ready starving people
German eyes are now turned TO the
east, as the land OF promise. German
and Austrian syndicates are already /
being formed to import grain from I
the Ukraine. and, as usual the Ger
man and Austrian merchants are /
quarrelinE like cats over the division l
Of the spells.
To Grind II From Russia.
What Germany expects to get out I
OF the conquered territory she pro-
poses to grind under her heel IS indi- |
Gated in the following memorandum ]
Of q newly formed German-Russian |
economic committee:
'aThe eight districts OF the Ukraine /
produced So percent OF the wheat l
harvest In 1910. and in 1911 So percent |
Of the wheat harvest Of the whole OF |
European Russia. In the same two
years the percentages for rye were 20
and 81. for barley % and az. for oats |
16 and "a. In agricultural produce /
for Industrial purposes. the Ukraine
stands first. Thus in 1911. 50 percent !
of Russia's beet sugar harvest came !
from the Ukraine In regard 70 live
stock. the Ukraine shows good aver
age for the whole empire though RUS
sian livestock. both in quantity and
quality, leaves much to he desired"
The meat ration IN Germany at
present varies. in different localities, I
from five ounces Of fresh meat and ]
three ounces Of sausage 70 eight and I
three-quarters ounces Of fresh meat /
weekly. In Berlin. each person now !
gets four and one-quarter ounces Of l
bread a week. one ounce Of hulled l
barley, one ounce OF greats two
ounces Of farinaceous foods, eight
and three-Quarter ounces OF fresh {
meat. one ounce OF butter OF one and
three-ouarter ounces Of margarine. an
ounce Of cheese. seven and one-half I
pounds OF potatoes and eight ounces
Of sugar.
oortance Of the potato ration in the
German diet can be realized--Copy- ]
right, 1913. by Mcclure Newspaper |
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