Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-12
BRITAIN IS SPEEDING
PRODUCTION TO GET
BALANCE IN TRADE
Report on Industrial Conditions
in England Made by Amer
lean Investigator.

Washington, Oct 1.-THE atten-
tion of English industry is focused
en- speeding up production in order
to restore the balance of trade, and
there are indications that England
will be able to continue TO manufac-
ture many lines Of goods more cheap
ly than the United States, according
to H. G. Brock, acting assistant
chief of the Bureau Of Foreign and
Domestic commerce, who has just re-
turned to America after fifteen
months residence in England, where
he was commercial attache.
1T is more or less of common
place to say that there is an awak-
ened interest in England as to the
desirability, indeed the necessity Of
an increased export trade" Mr..
Brock said. "The diminished pro-
duction of coal, in that country, how
ever, coupled with the recent deci-
sion to add six shillings a ton to the
price have served to especially To-
Gus the attention of Englishmen on
the difficulties Of the export situa-
ton. In pre-war years England's
ability to export coal had of course
velopment of her foreign trade.
Balance Adverse.
cat the present time when the bal
ance of trade is so adverse to the
United Kingdom Eat the present rate
it will amount to 800,000,000 this
Year, the necessity of greatly in
creasing total exports is becoming
more and more apparent. No Eng
lishman has any excuse for not ap-
preciating this fact because it has
been dinned into his ears consistently
editorial and news columns of the daily
news and in numerous trade journals
as we'll as through the medium Of the
address of public men this self-evi-
dent truth has been emphasized and
emphasized. It can be taken for
granted then that British commerce
and industry are awake to the needs
of the future. AS a part of this pro-
gram a great deal Of emphasis is
being placed on the need for speeding
up production and the point is made
question or an employees question
citizen must sink or swim together
"In the matter of production Eng
land is probably better prepared to
make consistent and rapid progress
than any other belligerent European
county. For one thing the labor
scarcity due to the demands of the
war has been in large measures reme-
died. Out of the three services
army, navy and air-3,000,O00 men
have already been demobilized and
from this huge mass of able-bodied
men only about 100000 have not yet
been absorbed in industry. The con-
tinuation of the import restrictions
on numerous commodities until Sep
TENDER l gave the industries of the
country an opportunity to change
from war conditions to peace condi-
tions, and shielded industry during
the period of rehabilitation. The
so-called unstable key industries are
still to be protected for an indefinite
time by the prohibition against the
importation of such goods except
under license by the board of trade.
Check Importations.
dumping is likewise to be preIid-
ed against by suitable legislation
and the board Of trade is to be equip
ped with emergency powers to check
a sudden and undue importation OF
goods at prices altogether below the
cost of production in the United
Kingdom owing to the collapse of ex-
change. This last named measure is
aimed particularly at Germany where
the sovereign brings 80 marks as
against 20 before the war.
"The deprecated value Of the sove.
reign. which means that American
products imported into the United
Kingdom cost the importer consider
ably more than when exchange is
normal, will likewise tend to stimu
late British production in competing
lines. England can therefore now
concentrate on speeding up produc