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THE HONGKONG

DAILY LIFE IN BERLIN.

ELEGRAPH. ̈

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15. 1923.

the

of the planty which he sees needed. Economists insist upon Jaround him. Work ten hours intensive. production daring! and more a day, the same as we working hours as a more efficient; do." is the answer. High wards]method” of increasing efficiency jensue as often as not, but mutter than longer hours, but Rural Hunt for Provisions.ed threats of what the future may languidness, of the present-day bring forth when the enraged and German workman, and of the To understand what is happen- starving "march on the sleek miner in particular, is put down ing in Berlin, and mist get outside and well-fed are generally, proto poor food and too little of it at it, says the Opus correspon- ductive of an extra egg or so and that. dent at the Cernan Capital. It half a pound of butter.

THE TEN-HOUR DAY.

a

WAR AS LEVLLER,

is not necessary to go very far!

On this head, the one great; train-loads of townsfolk leave the Back in Berlin the thought of] city every morning and every that ten-hour working day may question affecting the working

hear may

the evening, according to whether rankle in the worker's mind, but classes, one they are working full time ornot, he is well aware that this strangest things in going from For whether the wife can is question not of to-day meeting to meeting, irrespective leave the housebobefore but of to-morrow, when the of personal politics, in an attempt the children are safely aut big fight between capital and to grasp the present state of of the way in bed. Hours of labour begins in the Stinnerworks German mentality. "The war," waiting on suborban and country and those akin to them. The insists capitalism, represented by platforme mean nothing to them, eight-hour day question is looked the People's Party. "brought armed either with empty sacksiupon at the present moment as socialisation to the masses in a dreamed of the and baskets in glad anticipationione affecting the niners almost form little

to

or staggering under the burden of exclusively, along with a few socialisation of food-which is the same filled full to bursting heavy industries connected with the root of to-day's unrest. When point. The carrying capacity of raw iron and steel The miners was there ever a time before! the German, man and woman, eight hourday (not reckoned from when the servant-girl and the always STELS

remarkable, but the time ha enters the yard but to office-boy bad the right

rations nothing equals these loads of the moment he uses the pick) is' demand the same

and mistress? The wood, potatoes, carrots, turnips, on the average for the Ruhr and master and anything else that is to be Silesia a five-and-three-quarters" clamour for the weekly butter, The win-hour day. There was no miseryįsugar, and bacon was never cut outside the city. dows of the railway carriages in the ranks of the working men known among the classes accus- are broken asin by these weights until, the short-hour day occur-¡tomed to a potato diet with mar pressed against them, just as red: full hours and fullpay on in-garine in towns, lard in the coun they were when food was scarce dex wages, paid out twice a week.try, and sugarless coffee as the in the days after the Armistice, would still keep the wolf from staple drink? For the first time and the guards and porters are the door even during the present in their lives the war mothers of just as conscientious in their intolerable system of allowing the people bought milk in the efforts not to note the culprit. haker, butcher and milkman to same quantities as the middla "WHAT OF THE NIGHT?" cover possible losses by regulat-classes, demanding as their right But the only part of the weary.ing the daily price according to on cards what they had never journer worth recording is the the dollar.

thought necessary before. Ger tramp from one farm to another' It is natural that one should any turned topsy-turvy under along the Spree, the Havel, even look. in view of what bad business Rathenau's guidance. It needs] the Elbe, on its long way through means in other countries, for the his enemies to show her how to

at fields to Hamburg. Most of great black-coated brigade. Here right herself again. Good, sober.. the country dwellers are willing the peculiar conditions of Ger- frugal Germany of the past!" to part with their potatoes early many strike the eye. There are. The politics of the masses are

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