The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-03-08
ENCLAND's INDUSTRIAL ANEMIA

Englands unemployment problem persists tnough y
Is ten years since the which dislocated the INDUS
tries and disorganized the commerce Of the British
Isles ended Worse yet the situation to be getting
more acute al the time. There Is estimated l4O
600 men and women out Of work In that country.
Though such condition embodies the possibilities OF
commercial decline which shall bring Britannia down
off the pedestal OF supremacy which it has graced III
finance industry since the OF the corn laws io
lowing the Napoleonc the nation seems unable 10
find means OF stemming the steady sag.
Sending unemployed to Canada was tried and proved
failure as solution Of the depression Supplied with
loans $500 OF the idle sent over to the Dominion
last summer and placed farms as laborers Tney
were artisans and artisans they remained unable TO
adapt themselves to the change OF employment Most
OF them needed to get back home after the expert
uent had ended in fuke. In cash the failure cost
9s50000 The real gloom Of It. however, was in dsap-
pointed hopes for relieving the home situation and turn
ing the depression to the advantage of Canada in de-
velopment OF its agriculture and settlement.
SO the normal condition of unemployment that has
persisted ten years drags It Is the heritage of spe-
cialzation as well England has been dependent
on its shipbuiding its STEEL coal mining pottery and
shipping industries and each has been hard hit by the
competition Of other nations. especially Germany ana
the United States The fact that these industries were
specialized and standardized what made their idle
workers incompetent when they tried Canadian
farming.
England has been through such stagnation before In
1875 notably it emerged from the Napoeonic wars
victor but industriay ancmc it seemed permanent
decline must set in. Then the of machinery
OF all kinds epoch In civilization the steamship
the locomotive the power-driven loom and develop
ent OF coal mining that lifted English industry as high
above normal prosperity and 1t had been below
that. too-conservative policy in industry gradually
permitted American industry with its spirit of continual
innovation. and German manufacture with its cheap
ness and international penetration to take away much
Of British trade volume the century drew to its close
Then came the Again depression like that after
the Napoleonic wars
How the nation is going to pull itself out of the
pit is not apparent It still has coal as resource
Germany contrived methods for eating its coal cake
and still having it-that u.s. it has found that coal from
which valuable chemical byproducts extracted may
be effective fuel after that treatment than
before, If made into brquettes is being done at
Leheh in this state This fuel then also has been found
effective agent in the production of electrical energy
there still is future with silver lining to the present
clouds of gloom but after that much progress to adjust
ment, there still remains the problem of markets.
Viewing the field Of economic and industrial possbil
tiles 1t, therefore. that England is mired in
serious condition of depression from out Of which,
less unexpected development ensue the isles will make
their way only after long and patient exercise of that
British characteristic which is known as muddlin1
through"