Montana labor news., 1932-09-15
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sums demanded by the Allies as wal
indemnities, Germany decided upon
the naturalization of its industries
Naturalization is the art of pro-
ducing more goods with fewer people
The more Germany produced and
the less it consumed, the greater
the surplus wherewith to pay off
the v~ictors, went the reasoning. This
also sounded very reasonable to
the victor, who ~thereupon persuaded
Uncle Sam, in his capacity of chief
stakeholder, to loan some eight bill
lion dollars to Germany wherewith
to rationalize its industries.
When Germany's industries were
finally and satisfactorily rationalized
the dear Allies raised their tariff
walls to keep German goods, and in
cidentally German reparation pay
ments from sinking their own in
dustries. Thus evaporated Germany's
export trade, and as the ~hoped-for
excess of export goods has been pro-
duced in excessively large quantities
by a surprisingly small number of
people, there was no home market
for them either. In other words,
Germany has had machinery, skill
and will, and all it lacks is consum-
ers-by which is meant customers
with money in their jeans. Now,
pray, how is Junker Won Papen going
to solve the troublesome problem Of
selling machine-made goods to ma
chine-displaced and, therefore, busted
buyers? Listen here is what Chan
cellor Won Papen has up his sleeve:
l. AS a spur to industry, the
government is prepared to remit
S476,O 600, 900 in taxes to industrial
firms. This will not be in cash
(Which the government has not gOt),
but in certificates which may be
used to pay almost any other Ger
man tdA Dut the lhSOHic ida
Money thus RENTED will be used,
it is hoped, to ~renOvate and mod
ernize plants, thus providing extra
jobs.
Finel decentralization was a dud.
Therefore, modernize more plants,
putting more customers on the blink,
and all will be lovely.
2. Tax certificates totaling $780,
100000 will be given firms who
employ more men at the rate of
$500 per job provided.
3. Wages must be cut. The
more men a company employs the
lower the wages it viii be al
lowed to pay.
Getting better. Tax the little fell
lows. Give the money to the big
boys, having their work done for
less pay, and the little ones will
buy more.
A. To help reduce overcrowding
in the professions, a working year
will be introduced between gradu-
ating from gymnasium (high
school and entering a university.
Sure, there are two and a half
million unemployed. Make the high
school boys take the place of a
million more and unemployment will
vanish.
5. Reforms in the administra-
ton of Prussia, to save money by
abolishing superfluous posts dobs).
What the superfluous job-holders
are going to do %deponent sayeth not.
So here we have the program If
Germany's latest savior, and if it
doesn't sound stupid enough to en-
title Junker Won Papen to run for
president Of these benighted states,
I'll eat my head off or anything
else equally hard, bony, and indi-
gestible.
Now let us leave the land of
Goethe, Schiller, Kant and Hegel,
and take a peep at the home of
Shakespeare, Darwin, Huxley and
Tyndall and see what's going on
there.
For a century English textiles led
in the markets of the world. I'm
cody sums wandered into the pock-
cts Of its mill owners. Soon their
earnings became too great to be
re-invested at home. English-owned
textile mills sprang up in China and
India, which by now are competing
with the mills at home, and as
Hindu and Chinese labor is cheaper
than English labor, many English
mills are idle. European and Japa-
nese competition put another dent
in the English textile trade. There
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