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300,000 TONS OF COAL VANISH WITHOUT TRACE

CHIERER, pronounced shee-

SC

ber, is the word Germans use for profiteer and racketeer. It means "one who shoves or shunts," and had its origin during the first world war.

By "shecbing", desertion and other forms of blackmail the Germans slow up produc- tion in the British-controlled Ruhr

By SEFTON DELMAR

So the German

Labour Once

irects, the War Office releases, and

We can and we shall have to. We

cannot adapt the direct on paper the machine seems to be methods of control employed by the working smoothly. It

French in the Saur because we have looks

not the men. though Me Collins ought to getting his 100,000 recruits fairly cally.

be

We cannot adopt the Russian technique of "You will produce such and such a tonnage or you will go to Siberia," We have no Siberin.

Pay the Blackmail'

But look into the figures and you find that though nearly 50,000 men were recruited to the mines So

strength

the

we must mobilise the Beli- interest of the Germans. We blackmail they have

has must pay

been playing for with their go-glow policy and let them work for them- selves. They will want to export the Rutar coal then to pay for their this food, and the world will get more of

the coal it needs.

the

Certain citizens discovered then that it was profitable to have trucks containing scarce commodities detached from the goods train taking them to the two mantha-100,000 tona in But this Is only a part of it, during the inst, ten months,' front or the war factories, shunt- October, 200,000 tons la November. Other stocks of coal not recorded in actual increase in

This case the conl was found the production figures of the mines amounted to only 12,000. ed into a lonely siding, there to to be missing after a careful investi- are constantly being added, with the be sold to a customer with agation of the records of production connivance of the miners and officials "Wastage" accounts fur

concerned: economic use for them and distribution.

difference. And most of wastage is plain desértion.

the mine. He draws his ku-stout The German recruit is brought to

miners' boots (some of them from British stocks), jacket and trousers, underwear, shirt, kerchief, hat, and probably a British blanket or two and a pail or basin for washing to. He dócs a bit of his training, goes

more than war.

There was comparatively little "sheebing"

Off the racords

(if you will allowBUT I am told that coal is being | British, and It b'a patriotic duty to

There are no German owners who can protest. The functions of the owner have been taken over by the cheat tre the British can do about it.

British. There is little For we nre not sitting in the mines as the Frenchi are u the Saar, where for every Ave German managers engineers there are two Frenchmen, We control the Ruhr mines from

and

produced in the Ruhr which the word) during the second never appears in the books at all, world war. The Germans had is never missed, but goes straight into discovered that

the black market from the mine, a restrictive

It follows the road of the Deputat monopolistic economy only func- Coal, the name for the coal which tions effectively with a Gestapo Ruhr miners-like minera elsewhere

watch over the citizens in receive to use in their domestic outside from the Villa Huegel, the down the pit a couple of times, de- In the Rubras in Francothe huge Lyons Corner House-like eldes "This is no fe for me," sells miners are selling their Deputat palace from which the Krupps ruled his Coal In the block market. With the their empire. tacit connivaner nf the authorities the Miners' Works

to

their less Socialist moments,

hearths.

Council

have

"We should require 400 officers to

Where's it gone?

outfit which on the black market in worth casily ten times the UT since the end of the war and arranged a kind of collective blackwork the Ruhr on the Saar system.".

price he gave for it--and hops it. BUT

disappearance of the *** Gestapo "slicebing" has burst into marketing scheme. Euch mun gives tion chief, "and we have 89.

said Mr Collins, the British produc- of 4,710 miners who ceased work up a portion of his Deputat Coal,

Each in October more than half-2,477 to which the works council (with the one of those 400 would have to be abe exact-left under breach of con- aid of a Schleber) barters against first-rate engineer. Where are consumer goods.

nt to get them from time when tract. They deserted. every man is needed for the mines in Britain?"

more.

thin

full flower ance

In fact, Germans consider it as patriotic as the French considered black mar- keleering during the German occupa- tion of France. For ore they not depriving the enemy of the fruits of his exploitation?

Ruler cont is one of the Schieber's favourite commodities. A German offcial confessed to me that hardly a coal train arrives at its destination to-day without a truck being "lost" or mysteriously "unloaded."

1 heard of a case where the miners had sent their coal to a cigar factory, which had sent them cigars in ex- change. It was an excellent bargain Miners who did not want to smoke the black market for food-a loaf all their cigars bartered them on of bread for one cigar, a half-pound

of butter for Ave.

British helpless

miners.

we

the

Police don't help As in the field of production and distribution, so it is in the field of TECHNICALLY, this in an offence, inbour control and the recruiting of under military government law,

The Ruhr mines are 100,000 miners what with the delay before

punishable with Imprisonment. But given to the German inbour offices mines have reported the man's de- under strength. Orders have

bicen to recruit men urgently. They have parture and the lack of zeal shown been told that the mines are to have by the German police in chasing a And the "sheebing" starts right

priority over all other industries. fellow-German who at the pilhead. British officials of TS black market barter of the

and if a man is able-bodied and not nothing worse in their eyes than a is guilty of the North German Coal Control are

already engaged in some essential at this moment conducting a painful less, and perhaps even beneficial in mines.

Deputat Coal would be harm-job he is to be directed to the Ruhr reluctance to work for the British- Inquiry into the disappearance

The War Omce in Britain the deserter has either got himself of providing Incentive to 300,000 tons of coal which

increased has has production, it were confined to volunteer

decreed that prisoners who another job or is working the black vanished without trace during genuine Deputat Coal.

for mining are to be market. And it is no use chivvying given priority on their release. the German police. They

have always got the perfect explanation why they cannot find him. We understand," they say with a click. of the heels, "the man has gone across the border into the Russian zone."

Report on the American Front

Money again means something

a few

And so it goes on, one shortage causing another.

Is there any solution? When I drst saw the mines of Northern France I was impressed that here were old, worn-out nines being worked with 47 per cent, more manpower than before the war and producing only eight per cent, more coal. One-fifth of the underground miners were unwilling werkers. They were German prisoners forced Into the mines,

on the

ALL of a sudden I find that The big, expensive furries says the

everyone is becoming ter- mink coat that would have cost me consumer resistance is being en- From now on it's a buyers' market. That means

that something called ribly interested in my dollar. £4,000

weeks ago is now countered when prices are exur-

How much better these men would And up till recently no one seem- mine for only £2,500, and there's bitant or goods are shoddy. It also work, I thought, if they were sent ed to care whether they could he says it.

a note of desperation about the way means

home to Germany to work that competition is coming more productive coal seams of the prise it away from me or not.

back, und competition means Rubr. price-cutting, which has alrendy In America money didn't mean

arrived with liquor and furs, and much any more unless you had

will spread to other lines the more firmly 1, and others like me, hang on very little of it.

to that dollar, of ours.

BY C. V. R. THOMPSON

THE

I go into a habordasher's to buy THESE hard business men But

I-and everyone else a now

don't pun 's outus living in this fantastic land-um asked I'd possibly like

expect all this to bring about some confronted "with" tempting "lures" for white slurts at a price not much being well means no more strikes a slump, all being well. And all my dollar. Everywhere I go I am higher than pre-war.

tying up whole industries and whole inet by signs, strange, wonderful and

cflies, and no more panic buying in heart-warming, that I as a consumer

dear of such strikes and such tie- ups. am coming back into my own at last.

The little shop around the corner announces a sacrifice sale of nylons, cut from 108. a pair to about is. 11d. My newspaper tells me that I can

Rupert and Ninky-32

Rupert is delighted to be taken to where Ninky is, so he clambers behind the scout, and with the Tastier whirr they rise into the sky. "This plane's very quiet. Is it a toy one? asks Rupert.

Yes, it's the most powerful one that Santa Claus has got," says the little tel. low. He won't speak again, but goes on climbing higher and higher- and humming tittle tune bout "Dinky Ninky Donkey until they' come in sight of the shaping castle in the clouds where Santa Cla lives,

ALL NIGHTS RESENTED

My wife tells

me that some women's clothes are down nearty a half, and that the furniture sales and white sales are sensational

from me.

Hotels are now soliciting business It is possible for a head waiter to And I find that after all

smile.

VE cannot help asking ourselves WE

if a this means that that old ogre_H.C.L—which is what we've called the High Cost of Living-is preparing to leave us. Will it last? Americans ore asking And if it does, they add n. tittle anxiously, will it go too far like it did last time and become a depression?

Well, it's not much good going_to Washington for the answer. The Washington experts haven't too good

They think they will be able to keep prices low enough to lure our

This they hope to achieve by cutting dollars without cutting wages and without losing money themselves. production conts with increased cmelency and distributing their finished products more expertly.

After all, they point out,, people aren't going to stop buying al together as long as they know they are getting something for their

money.

With nif the incomes in America now in the £300 to £1,200 a year bracket, these business men feel it is now up to them to persuade them that

hat they can get something for their money.

And so the salesman, forgotten a reputation for prophecy in that direction. And, determined not to man of the last four years, is be caught again, they are jugggling rapidly becoming the key

And restaurants are giving around a bit with well-turned again, phrases such as "period of

But when I saw the Ruhr condt- tlens I changed my mind. Under the present direction these prisoners would merely run away.

Can we change the form of outr administration?

I believe that if this is done the of a rapidity undreamt of amid the recovery of German industry will be devastation to-day.

Will that be a danger? Not if we

Keep an occupying army `in

Germany.

Strengthen our counter-intelll- (public safety) in Germany,

Kence network and police force

Abolish altogether our costly military government admini- tration, which is duplicating services the Germans must and want to per-

form for themselves.

That is what I hope was shali do. But I shall only believe it when i see it.

Coat is not the only racket in the

Rubr.

CROSSWORD

02

24

Acrosa

1. Enter by way of a pent tree. U. The kneek of the rope-rinn. (3 30. Bometimes called a dupe. (4) 12. You got it from a sarcastic

person. (5)

13. The start of a soventh part of a

week. (3)

14. Omb. (0) 15. The cat and the lagoong» ETL

mixed up. (0)

17. Nothing to do with x funeral,

Just a portcullis. (0) 20. Botinda doubtful about whom

the fur belongs to. (8) 21. Pad. (3)

2. Depress. Kõi 1. You might say that he liked los

music, (4)

24. Accused it song as the root of

2. 103

1. Just the prise, (0)

2. Admitting

Down

to make

Iton

the difference each

Are a distinct pain. (3-4)·

3. A neat mountain. (4)

4. Playthings. (4)

5. Nothing more than a European

capital will suit isim. +(8)

6. No bail for this man. 401

7. Army fonnation. (7)

9. One who potters about. (8) 11. Loud. (7), 18. Mother is

country,

10. Limbs. (4) retuming to this 19. Terminus, (3)

Bolution of yesterday's puzzle. —Across: and 5. Window einer: H. Enciraleet; 1. Adora; 12. Linear; 14, Galwante; 15. Hot; 16. Mrise; 17. den: 19, BT: 10,

Dawni

Wesltater: re: 4, Or; 9. Bee 1 ACTOM:

Addictive: Constive: 410, Coral: I. ADRC. L. Mean; 17. C

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1947, by Ely Culbertson)

his signals in to-day's deal.

A defender was too "honest" with, position of the king of clubs, it was

North, dealer. North-South, vulnerable.

North

10 52

107 AKE 43 +AJE

FAST

WEST +KQJ85 4743

632

+042

+7

SOUTH

• A

+3 10 9 8 0 K 10 U3

VAKQJ954 ♦ Q 2

anything but that!

West opened the spade king, South drow

three rounds

of trumps, and carefully observed East's emphatic club-ten discard. The only thing that could break the contract was a very bad diamond distribution and the club king offside, but North, knowing his right-hand neighbour, was quite ready to believe the club message and he resolved to do what he could against the bad

diamond break too, it turned

up. Declarer cashed every trump cept que, and carefully discarded clubs

and spades from dummy. blanking the club ace to keep the alumond suit intact. Now, with one trump and his original five minor- suit cards left in his own hand, he had East "spotted." If Eart let go But I've been talking to someITH all this, of course, America

even one dkumond, South could business men in New York who isn't going t become the make or lose their all by judging cheapest place in the world to live

the thirteenth trick in establish dummy's nuit. Sensing that, East which way things are going. And

Buyers are still paying good was out of order. After that call, avall, Declarer tested the diamonds bid blanked the club king-but to no what they tell me is this:-

wholesale prices for spring goods. and after South's subsequent dis- by leading the queen and deuce, but The sellers' market is nearly over. Food will be cheaper, but only a covery of two nees in North's hand, when West showed out, South cashed Except, that is, in housing.

a few few points cheaper except in butter the grand slam in hearts was op the ace of clubs, then did not even industrial products like refrigerators, and later in beef.

parently a safe bid. As it happened, need the third diamond trick. and cars,

And even in cars the But the peak has been passed. on a spade opening lead and with bottom

is now beginning to drop To-day the American faith is gra- anything like

If East had not signalled in clubs. fair break out of the second-hand car market. dually being realored in the old diamonds, the contract would have back on a simple club finesse, rathery in declarer probably would have fallen Prices for ten-year-old. cars have adage, that prices which go up must been a laydown, but due to the ac than the difficult dropped exactly 50 per cent.

trump squeeze tual diamond break and the offside that, he actually executed.

NANCY Eenic, Mecnje....

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