Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-25
CHINA HERALD.
Shanghai. A circular order
prohibiting the sale Of Chinese
factories to foreign interests
kax nAnv iee,.ad IN; the ministry,

NJ pronloltlng tne SAFE Oh ChINese
1 factories to foreign interests
has been issued by the ministry
Of industry.
The ministry has also announced
measures to deal with cases in which
the owner Is unwilling or financially
unable to carry on the operations OF
his factory. Under such circumstances,
| the government, central or local, will
arrange TO take over the factory and
convert 1t into state enterprise, In
case the factory in question Is one OF
any magnitude. In al other cases
loans ~bearing low interest win be ad-
vanced to the factories and govern
ment supervisors win also be appointed
| to introduce methods Of scientific
naanagement in order that production
may be increased.-Kuo Min.
statisticians Throw
No New Light on Unemployment
, Irish Independent, Dublin.-n sta
| tistics could cure unemployment, or
even peint out the way to recovery. the
/ world would not now oe lamenting its
| inability to discover q remedy for trade
| depression Beyond counting the grow
/ ing numbers of the unemployed, and
reckoning how trade is declining in
value and in bulk the statisticians have
not SUCCEEDED IN Throwing any new
| light on the problem.
| Year by year the position seems TO
! be becoming more serious, while the
revival so ardently desired. and so often
4 foretold still fails TO appear. When
| the Labor government came into Oh
! fee after the last general election the
| total number Of unemployed persons in
( Great Britain was about one million.
/ Now. two years later. the army of TN
| employed is over two and a half mil
! lions This increase Is alarming and,
! though slight reductions occur now and
| again. no lasting improvement can yet
be confidently expected.
The seventh annual report Of the
| British ministry of labor shows that in
! some industries, such as cotton, iron,
! steel and snipbuilding, more than one
| third of the normal number of employees
were idle last year. In Germany the
| oficial estimate OF the unemployed puts
| the present total at four and half
millions In the United States six mil
lions is generally considered TO be a
| fair estimate, but reports Of distress and
, the fact that there Is no official ma
chinery either for ascertsining the ex-
tent Of unemployment there or for re-
lieving the voorhees,. would suggest
that this Is an under-sta tement When
/ every country is suffering from the
same cause it is but small consolation
to say that all are companions in dis
treSg
Beyond voting q sum in relief OF
agriculture the United States Govern
ment has refused TO make anything in
the nature of a grant for the unem-
ployed. In Great Britain the dole sys-
tenn is costing the taxpayers about one
million pounds per week this being the
rate at which the deficiency in the
Unemployment Fund debt is increasing
The debt is now res $40, 900, and Parlia-
ment has been asked to sanction further
borrowing powers which will bring tht
deficit up to fi15,000, 900. Even this
will do no more than enable the pay
ment of the dole until the end of the
year without any early prospect Of
solvency becoming possible.
4
Foes of Prohibition
Complete Congress In Paris.
AB c. Madrid: The League Inter
national of the Adyersaries of Prohibi-
ton recently concluded its twelfth con.
gress at Paris. Men from 10 nations
Including some that now have prohibi
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