Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1920-09-16
GERMAN WORKS
RUN BY STATE
Economic Bureau Looks After
Electric, Steel and Aluminium
Plants.
BUT EXTENSION IS DELAYED
Naturalization OF Coal Mines May
Have to Wait Change In Makeup
Of Reichstag-Ho gliding Com
o., pany Formed.

many agreed to increase It's coal out
put In order to bring the deliveries to
France up to approximately 100000
tons per month, there has been re-
newed agitation among the miners for
the naturalization of the mining In
dustry in the hope that better work
ing conditions and pay may be OBJ
tanned under such a condition than
with the mines owned and operated by
Hugo SHINES and his few associate
coal barons. Other sections Of Ger
man industrial life are also likely to
be ultimately run by the state, al
though 1t will probably be necessary
for the German people to elect more
radical reichstag to effect these
changes, as the present cabinet is not
pledged to any great extension of the
principle of public ownership and Op-
Grafton.
In the meantime, however, as the re-
suit Of earlier agitation for govern
ment control and operation Of the lead.
bureau Of the German treasury de-
partment has quite a few important
government controlled industrial
plants to look after, according to a
summary of Its activities recently pub
lished IN the German press and quoted
from in commerce reports. The most
important Of the government factories
are the arsenals and naval cOnstruc.
ton yards. which are now engaged on
non-mllitary construction. This in.
cludes the manufacture Of steel, the
making Of all sorts and descriptions
of machinery in large quantities.
especially for agricultural and do
nestle purposes, and the repairing Of
rolling stock and locomotives. Small
arms works are being maintained as
such so far as is consistent with the
provisions OF the peace treaty.
State In Control.
"In order to consolidate the govern
ment interests in these different IN
dertakings a company was formed in
December, 1919, called the German In
dustrial Stock company, with capi-
tai Of 10O,0O0,0OO marks (nominally
S23,SOO,OO0 at current exchange. about
$2.250 000); the whole of the shares
being in the hands of the government.
The state thus exercises either full or
partial control, according to the num-
Der of electrical, electrochemical and
other undertakings.
The huge generating station at
Zschornewitz, near Bitterfield, belong
ing to the Electric Plant company, Is
controlled. 1t provides the current for
the state nitrogen works In Witten-
berg, obtaining the necessary fuel
from adjacent Ignite mines. 1t has an
output of 100000 kilowatts and, be-
sides running the nitrogen plant, sup
plies current to the Berlin Electric
works. and will shortly extend this
supply of energy to Leipsic and the
province of Saxony. The Central Ger
man Power Works company comprises
the central power station at Senften-
berg, formerly belonging to the Alum
mum works, Lauta, with an output OF
10000 kilowatts; and the Niederlau-
sitter Power plant, near Spremberg,
with adjacent Ignite mines and with
an output Of 10000 kilowatts. Up to
the present the electric energy deve-
oped by these two plants has been util-
tied In the manufacture Of aluminium
and nitrogen. In the future 1t will also
be employed to supply electricity for
the surrounding industrial districts.
The East Prussia central station,
which was recently erected to provide
the province Of East Prussia with
electric power, is controlled, as also
is the ALI works, Munich. which was
formed In 1918, In conjunction with
the Dr. Wacker Alexander company.
for electrochemical manufacturing, to
utilize the water power Of the lower
ALI. The output is, roughly, 10000
kllowatts. The Wurttemberg Rural
Electric company was recognized IN
1919 to enable the state, with the con-
sent of the Wurttemberg government,
to take a dominant interest in the
supply Of electricity to the province of
Wurttemberg.
Great efforts were made during the
war to put the manufacture OF alum
mum on a firm footing. in order to
make Germany independent OF foreign
supplies. Plants were erected and the
started at HOrrem. Bit
terfeld and johannesburg, each factory
having an output of 5000 tons of alum
mum per annum. In 1915 the Erft-
werk company was taken over by the
government and recognized with
capital of 25,OO0O00 marks. The
branch works of this company, in Gre
venbroich Clover Rhine), have been
fitted up to produce 1890 tons Of
aluminium per annum.
Iron and Steel Mills.
In regard to iron and steel mills the
Ilseder Smelling company and the
Peiner Rolling Mills company are con-
trOlled. These works have a capital
of 10000 900 marks, of which the gov
eminent holds % per cent. The chief !
features of this undertaking are that
the mines producing the ore are In
close proximity to the smelling and
rolling plant, and that, situated az
they are In central Germany, they have
an advantage over the competing |
works in Westphalia in placing their
output In adjacent districts. In pre-
war days their yearly output Of ore !
to 100000 tons.
The Bavarian Lloyd Shipping COM
pany In Regensburg with capital of
100000 marks, large portion Of
which belongs to the state, is also rep