The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-28
AIDS TO INDUSTRY
URGED BY HURLEY
Head Of Shipping Board Advo-
Gates Freer Movement Of
Materials.
WOULD MODIFY BLOCKADE
Contends That Spread Of Tn
rest Can Be Checked by
Opening Of Factories.
Special wireless Despatch TO The srS from the
london Times Service.

london Times Service.
Copyright. 1919: oil viohfs reserved.
PARIS. Jan. 27.--E. N. Hurley. chair
man OF the United States Shipping
Board. devoted the major part OF his
spec CHI last night before the Volney Club
to the subject OF ocean tonnage. Sig
nifcantly taking It for granted that no
amount Of indemnities would prevent
Germany from again becoming a for
midable trade competitor he urged the
Allies not to lose time in putting In
order their own arrangements for raw
materials. There was, he said, urgent
need that such materials should he sold
to all nations on equality at fair prices
and that shipping should be furnished
20 transport them at equitable rates,
The European social fabric, it is
pointed out by other observers, is
threatened by two dangers There Is
the menace Of the spread OF organized
anarchy from Eastern Europe; there
is nearer at hand the threat of indus
trial unrest, which in tho majority u
the allied countries is coming obviously
springs from sources different from
those Of Bolshevism it obviously presents
fertile ground for the culture of the
germs OF Bolshevism. Hence the opin-
ion grows that the stemming of the
Bolshevlsm and curbing Industrial un-
rest are cognate questions, and should
be tackled together by economic as
much as by political or military weapons.
To q great extent the readjustment
OF the Industrial mechanism must be left
to individual countries. but it Is felt
that having assigned special committees
to the consideration of more important
specific problems before IL the Peace
Conference should seek more compre-
hcnsively for means OF protection
against the spread OF Russian anarchy
la the new revolutionary nations in east
ern central Europe.
good deal Is being done in regard 10
Poland and other nations In tho south
but there remains. however. the problem
OF Germany. and the way IN which Mr..
Hurley appears TO take II for granted
that Germany 10 not to be boycotted
into a state of commercial impotence
perhaps gives the key TO future deci-
sions. In other words. there Is begin
ming to be a strong feeling in quarters
whose opinions deserve credence that
the Peace Conference will yet give seri-
Gus consideration to the question that
the time has come TO raise partly the
blockade OF Germany on the ground
that the best way TO secure Germany
from the danger OF Bolshevism is to al
low her TO start her Industries on a
peace basis
AZ present the question OF raising the
blockade. save so far as food Is con-
cerned, remains in suspense largely be-
cause Of fears that to allow the entry Of
raw materials would remove the most
potent reasons Germany now has for
needing the commands of the Allies
The reply Ia made that It always would
be possible to re!mpose the blockade II
Berlin refused TO behave.
Fault Found with Washington.
Nobody In Paris has any trust In
Ebert or his colleagues: still less does
anybody contemplate the remission OF
any fraction OF the penalties due from
Germany to civilization. But II Is not
seen what is to he gained by retarding
the resumption OF economic processes in
the world day longer than necessary
or TO any greater extent than the short
ago OF tonnage may render necessary,
II II not Germany nor even Europe
that alone IL concerned Copper, for
instance. Is one OF the materials most
needed for reconstruction owing, partly.
to the blockade. Hope In certain nom
hlocksded countries of a falling market
demand for copper has dwindled recent
ly. there Is consequently, beginning
grave unemployment OF American cop
per industry.
1t can be argued that the fault lies
partly in Washington FOR having aban-
don.d the control OF prices so quickly
after the armistice There may be Jus
tire In the arguments. and II there be.
It Is but another demonstration OF the
need for resumption as soon as possible
OF interallied raw material policy
adapted TO the needs OF the RECONSTRUCT
ton programme. both In allied and en-
envy countries. Unless something OF the
sort is done. unless the maximum scope
and stability are given industry every
where. political achievements OF the
conference hardly can fail to be gravely,
perhaps fatally. handicapped.