New Britain herald., 1918-12-04
INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE
 OF WORLD PLANNED
Would Block German EnCrOaCh-
 mentS in Foreign Market

Rome, Oct. 25, Correspondence of the Associated Press)-David Lubin, American delegate to the Internation- al Institute Of Agriculture, has sug- gested to Italian and British govern ment officials and financiers a plan to block German encroachments in for eign markets by teaching the back ward peoples of the world how to manufacture their own goods. It is proposed to send a commission to the United State to advocate the adoption of this method. ...
 MT. Lubin's plan is to organize an international industrial league which would establish commercial bases in zones of foreign trade and to teach the people of those zones important methods of business and manufac- would eliminate the necessity for them to purchase manufactured ar ticles either from Germans or from any others.
 
 advisable for the English or Ameri- can exporter to help build up indus tries in a foreign market" said MT. Lubin. They would feel that they were, by teaching raw labor to be- come expert, destroying their own trade, and even running the risk of having that labor return to compete In their own home market. I think reflection will show that there is real ly little to fear from the legitimate competitor In fact, the competitor is, as 2 rule a customer, and the stronger the competition the more valuable the custom. Both the Unit ed States and Great Britain are com petitors but they are also each others best customer. Neither has much to fear from Morocco, for instance, as a competitor, but likewise they have lit tie to gain at present by her custom. However, if Morocco be converted in to an industrial center, it would be- come to a customer.
 Under the present sample-trunk method of increasing business, there is no business worth while for anybody there but if Morocco were taught to use her raw labor, she would start to manufa cture and, right off, could be sold raw products and machinery. There would also be a gain on finan- cial investments, on banking transac- f tions, on her increased volume of ex- ports and imports.
 Also, once this intensive plan of l development were started, we would 1 have a, block to the German method ! we have complained of, which was ! always dangerous because German 1 business was accompanied by polt- | ical meddling in the country involved, | and her profit carried back home to 1 help build up her armies, and her armies used to bulldoze the world ] I've are under the impression that l we are living in the twentieth cen- | tury, but from an industrial point of l view this is true of only a small part i of the world The backwoods coun- 1 tries are still scratching the earth with pointed stick, sowing seed by 1 hand, reaping with sickle, making l shoes and clothes by hand. The diff ference between the old world of the hand and the new world of the ma- 1 chine is seen right here in the basin i of the Mediterranean where civiliza- i tion was born, say two thousand years ago. Much of this immense terri 1 tory is still where it was two thou
 sand years ago. Why? Because it
 hasn't the machines of France, Eng 1 land and the United States.
 1 ''It is in the interest of the nations
 now fighting Germany to invade her 1 former fields and there set the ma l chimes at work, teach their leaders | business organization and their work 1 CTS how to become experts