The New York herald., 1921-06-15
WORLD TRADE CHIEF.
AIM LAID TO SHINES
Added To Riches by Enslaving
French and Belgians, So
cialist Charges.

Special cable 10 TuI,NEw YORK HERALD.
Copyright, 1921, by THE NEw YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
Berlin, June II.
book picturing the activities of Hugo
SHINES as the industrial king" of Ger
many has been written by Kurt Heinig,
formerly Government administrator for
the estates of the King of Prussia, and
publisher of Torioaerts, the Socialist or
gan. 1t will appear soon and will show
Herr SHINES as marshalling hundreds of
thousands of workers into the field of
trust production with a view to realizing
Industrial leadership and world trade
conquest 10 be compared only with Gen.
Ludendorffs dreams of military con-
quest
He declares that Herr SHINES now
warns Germany that her only salvation
lies in administration" He pictures
the German industrial liking as control
ling fifth of the German productive
wealth and dominating home industries
and German public opinion through his
newspaper and telegraph monopolies.
He shows how Herr SHINES brushed
the Berlin Government aside until DR..
Walter Simons, then Foreign Minister
protested that he was not Herr Stinnes's
little boy" how the German industrial
leader, when a member of the German
delegation, provoked by his arrogance the
Allies at Spa. and. finally his declara-
ton. obviously addressed to the Allies,
Il look you In the eye and name my ship
the Tirpitz" when the German Govern
ment was seeking to win the confidence
of the London reparations negotiators.
Herr Heinig shows the SHINES antece-
dents and how his progenitors founded
the SHINES fortune on coal and shipping
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Herr SHINES became prominent in
Germany before the war through the
coordination of the coal and iron indus
tries here with the credit banks. His
neteoric rise during the conflict was.
Herr Heinig shows, as result of his
Industrial organization of the military
conquests by the German armies. the
exploiting of the French and Belgian
mines, the plunderng OF the factories
of those countries and the cnslaving of
thousands of French and Belgians, who
were made to do compulsory labor.
He asserts that Herr Stinnes's enter
prlses in Belgium showed he was OPP
posed 10 a separate peace with Italy in
1917 He sees proof that Herr SHINES
was concerned only with his own inter-
ests through his opposition to the vital
coal rationing measures proposed dur
ing the war. and which would have cut
J OH tnS SLlnneS export InOIiLS.
Herr Stinnes's money and influence
! permeats all German activities, Herr
! Heinig asserts He. owns not only the
! largest German newspapers. but the Ger
! man press agencies which supply the
/ news to all the political parties. and he
/ he holds a partial paper monopoly. AT
/ the same he has his own agents in the
| Government. who constitute what Is
! called the "Stinnes clique" Owing to
the bankruptcy of most of the other
newspapers, the SHINES organs and press
! agencies monopolize the foreign news.
Herr SHINES meanwhile is constantly
| expanding his zone of operations, he as
serts, at the same time avoiding heavy
! income taxes. He holds an interest in
the electrical steel, machine, chemical
! and explosive industries. many hotels
! and building firms and transatlantic
shipping and canal freighting companies
and shares in Austrian, Swissd an
| Dutch industries.
Herr Heinig analyses the SHINES
policy at different periods. During the
war it was victory at all cost" after
| the armistice he sought cooperation OF
American and British capitalists. believ-
ing they would welcome the chance ol
! intrusting their money TO such worlo
genius I'm industrial organization as he
However. he was disappointed here.
Then he evolved continental scheme
whereby the French would give their ore
! for German coal. and he, SHINES. would
preside over a European monopoly OF
coal and iron. Meeting with meagre
response here he became violently ma
tionalistic. invoking the German people
TO form solid bloc through an elab-
crate system of trusts the directing
genius Of which would be Herr SHINES
Through this he would strive for con-
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