Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-05-08
GERMAN WORKERS
SLAVE FOR LIVING
Pre-war Picture of Industrial and
Social Contcntment and Hap
piness q Phantom.

IaStcn to this,
II look after my dear working people,
as does a father his children. buliu
beautiful homes for them. pay WIDOWS
pensions also pension for old-aRe' SIGN
ness. loss of work and increases IN iaini
hes ! pay high wages, limit w"thlhg
hours, make loans easy to farmers
have no slums rs do America ana ,,,oa'
Britain. | ndludicatc all strikes. MIN"
is the land OF the rarc-iree ana halpE
nottingham
Tint Is the boiled -down-to-a-icw- sen .
tcnccs prupapanda that Germany covered
the whole world with before the war WIN
the otensiblc purpose oi weakening
the morale of her enemies IN the war sue
then was planning ~,
Great credit Is due Ia Chairman EaSley
Of the National Civic Federation IN h'7
puhlishcd rcCutation oi t'rrmany ola'hs'
ms, - few items from that valuable dorli-
mcnt will prove Illuminating
Widows rrnsions IN Germany during
n SERIES oi wears averaged thlrtN~hF'
cents week, sick pensions ninotv-iiVe
cents a week, InvaliditN pension IN"
same, orphans pensions tmrty -seVfh
cents week Wages averaged daN lnf
carpenters. ~ -. plumbers. 81 =, 'a'i-
way employees engineers mud conductors
ON STATE railways, seventy cents Sh"p
workers. 81 ~, male farm labor, seventy
| two cents.
APPALLING aLUNe
As "a slums whoever has smolicd tho
! horrible udors IN Cologne until lol tho
| 6lth,cst city ~ Europe IN some "i Us
residence sections, will laugh ut ter
mauv's clam o. hr,ng slurnless Nnd
What about the, Jnulness IT NadgcburF
and pantzlg East London ~ iaral'T
| Allcy j., comparison. lbcrlin, The sho"
| city Of the Emplrc. looks like town ~
| pajaccs with streets lincd by stncco.
| irontod houses. but back If thorn and
| tins condition is much worsr in Ham
| burg. cologne. Frankfort and other larg'
| towns stand the srrricd ranks ot fov'
| crty 8 tcnc,ncnts. row uJnn row. befif
! has more nnc-room tenemcnts than am
| other city IN the world Families oi 81
| and seven hcrllng N ono apartment an
| a hall bathroom doing Rntvlce Tor ha't
| dozen such families
As to land distribution over third ="
| (,crmanys faru- are loss than 4 acre
N sizc. y pr rcnt between J = and
| acres Il Z por cent , 80 Il acros, -
nor cont " tu ~ acroa whit" 2f.An'
| Junkor- Tho land harons. own noart
| 5000 On acres running trUm I3o I
500 acres aud murn each
Tho above Is only = small part at ~
n,rt,Iro which Germany actually present
ri Ia tho world ~ the het"ro the wa
rcr,nd Not. 81 course what she claimed
but. nevertheless. collated irum hor "ii'
clal records AL except the filth 81 no
large cItloR II sounds inviting ~ ~
tmcr,eau wor3ngman. d"ea Il not AM
snro thcu 81 course. conditions hav
| gotten oven worSr with women dn'n
twork that would stonp tho shoulders .
the strongest man.
Oppression az farmers uudorpaid WORK
crs. cuslavrmont ~ women and "hildro
lndustrlallv. shocking housing conditions
chronic infant mortality. counterfeit "pciH
Insurance. are a few counts ~ the tndlc'
mcnt made ~ Mr. Paisley against 6or
many before the war
German efficiency goca {" appa'iin
lengths. whether II IS breeding ''erTna
subjects FINN The onslaved young wnme
of France and Belgium or IN iss'iin
living propaganda with which to brra
down tho morale Of tho worlds domo'
racy Nothing is too slow, nothing To
awful for the Potsdam spawn not t
| attempt
Vet fools IN America stall m"utt
Peace peace at any prcC
Can man make peace with HcH =
Daniel Louis Hanson. Of the Nigllantcs.