New-York tribune., 1919-08-10

1886 tons, equivalent to a85 pounds of coal
day for each miner. This sinking of the
output to about half of last years pro-
oucuon IS to be attributed to the fact that
the miners cannot be induced to work even
during the hours agreed upon. large part
OF the shifts leave the mine even during
work hours; others stay underground. huf
will not work. All efforts of the MANAGE
ment to better conditions proved frujtless
The officials, bosses and foremen were forci
bly, dismissed by the miners and were NAL
treated They are again demanding the dis
mlssal Of officials In consequence of these
conditions the mine, which is small one
has had deficit of 3,2500 marks since
December. AS there was no prosnect of an
improvement and as the owners could NOT
afford to continue making up deficits. they
declded to shut down August 4 and dismiss
all the miners"
dispatch recently reported the shutting
down of six potash mines in Central Ger
many. In one case the miners refused TO
carry out the agreement made bv them as
to length of the workdav At two othors
they arbitrarily reduced the hours of work
and used violence upon the managers to COM
pei the payment of wages for the hours
not worked. The managers closed down and
moved to an adjacent city for their safety.
Inc great Baden anline and soda factory
has just shut down one Of its establishments
because the shop council demanded the re-
moval OF one of the chemists When the
managers refused to dismiss him the work
men elected him forcibly from the shop and
attacked persons who tried to defend him.
beriin ls trying to help the UNEMPLOYED
by giving them emergency work; but how
they respond is shown by the following case:
10 the west of the city they were set IN
work building roads and levelling the earth
Tor a playground. The rate at which thev
moved the earth from one place to another
was so slow that the average cost Amounted
to 100 marks per cubic metre Before Tho
war it would have cost 1 to marks Tho
cost for digging a common ditch about e5
yards long and 20 inches deep was 1o5o
marks; before the war it would have been
50 or 80 marks.
Moreover, there is another effect II l.
''A0"' ot eic savings BANKS. Their roceiDtS
in May for the whole country wera onry
loo,000o0O marks. In April they had been
seven times greater. In May, 1913, thev
were 450000,00O marks
One section of German life. hoyever hos
started off at more vigorous pace than the
labor population chooses to take-namelv tbe
universities. Their attendance is much
greater than ever before In the last win
ter semester the total attendance at the
Prusslan universities was d. 646. which COM
pares with 27564 for the winter of 1913-r4
The number of students OF law rose from
5,1S4 to 1854; and jurists are anxiousv
asking how all these prospective young law
yers are to find living. One authority. DR.
Llsco, who was formerly Attorney Genera,
of the Empire. regards this excessive in
crease of students as "frightful," for it must
result, as he says, "in a great overcrowdinp
of the professions; and thus an intellectual
proletariat will spring up which. discor-
tented with themselves and with the state
can only prove danger to the state"
One South German university. that of
Iublngen, has adopted radical measures to