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...officer of Uhlans, began his diplomatic career with the Republic in 1918, has never before held ministerial position or ambassadorial rank. C. Prime Minister Hermann Miiller appointed and despatched officials to administer $5,000,000 in unemployment doles to the 250,000 workmen now locked-out in the Ruhr. The gigantic dole was approved by special act of the Reichstag. With great difficulty the deadlock between employer and employed was temporarily settled, last week, when workmen agreed to resume work on the old wage scale pending a decision by Minister of the Interior Doctor Severing as to whether...
Fuel Gas. Learning from visiting Germans that fuel gas made by the Ruhr coke ovens is being pumped to homes 450 mi. away and will eventually be piped all over Germany, their U. S. colleagues at Pittsburgh last week seriously considered doing likewise in the U. S. Making such gas at the coal mines and distributing it by long pipes should be cheaper than shipping coal to homes and factories. Also, the convenience of such gas will enable small communities to have factories, will prevent the present rural drift to cities...
Unmoved, the employers repeated their refusal to the Minister, then precipitated a crisis in the Ruhr by locking out nearly 300,000 laborers...
Laborers in iron mines in the Ruhr Valley demanded an increase in wages, submitted their petition to arbitration. The court awarded them an increase, smaller than demanded, but satisfactory to the petitioners. The employers, however, flatly refused to comply with this decision...
...first long line to be constructed will run 125 miles from the Ruhr to Hanover, will cost $2,000,000 (estimated). Already a small, low pressure gas network is supplying 38 towns in the vicinity of the Ruhr...