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Show GERMANS DECLARE BELGIAN POLICY SOCIAL NECESSITY p ?Yl -IN. Dor-. 7, via London. Pec. 8, (i:'-'r n. m. The German government ipsiifd a sialomonl lOilay In expla nation nitil justification of the transfer of Eel- !h n ' In 1 oi ors (o Germany. It says the ii'-asnrc :s by no rno;ins a hardship for i lie In borers, hut is a social necessity. Owing elm-fly to the. British embargo .lu.iiu Belgium's oversf-ns irade, which he-'.iv he-'.iv the war supported a large part of the 1 1 ! ut rial popu hit Ion. hirge numbers of IVlcian workpr are idle, the statement s i s. a nrl com! it ions are growing worse. .!.:nv families hnve become objects of puMie charity This state of things is not as ;iss-M"ted In Belgium, to German i . iiuisi t Ions of raw material, it is explained, ex-plained, for these requisitions occurred, as u rule, only where factories were un-;i un-;i ill o to I'ontinue. operations. Of l.L'OO.r.no employees engaged in Belgian Bel-gian indusirirs before the war, 605.O00. including I." .vlO'1 women, ;ire now wholly without work and l.t0'". i in -hiding 56.-000 56.-000 women, are partly witiiout work, making a total of (i55,0f"i persons dependent de-pendent on public- nid. In avid it Ion to these, there are SM.rt'tft wives and 612,-fioo 612,-fioo children Oi' men without work, so that l.Ri.o.ono persons, or one-fifth of the total Belgian population, require assistance. More than 300. 000. 000 francs already has been spent in supporting these persons per-sons and CO. ooo. lino francs monthly will be required henceforth. These masses of idle people, the statement state-ment says, are degenerating and drunkenness drunk-enness and social depravity are resulting;. The German governor-general. General von Bissing, earlv recognized the necessity neces-sity of taking measures to help the idle to obtain emplovment. He caused municipalities mu-nicipalities to undertake public works to create emplovment where this was possible pos-sible without imposing too great financial finan-cial burdens. I'pon the suggestion of Belgians of practical insight, the gov-ernor-genoral issued an ordinance in August Au-gust of 1915 against persons unwilling to work, which was man more stringent last March. This ordinance provides for compulsory com-pulsory transfer of workmen only when idle persons refused to accept work at reasonable pav without adequate reasons, the provisions of international law pro- lectins them against working on war ma- I trUl being recognized as adequate ground. The ordinance was directed i-hiefly against organized Influences aiming aim-ing to prevent laborers from accepting I work voluntarily only her a use It was of- j fereij by Germans. Nevertheless, tens of, i housa nds of t hern volu ritarily accented ! work in Germany at profitable wages. The statement, goes on to any tiiaL the labor situation in Iltdgium has grown worse and that conditions a re now such as to necessitate improvement; hence, the 'ordinance must be enforced more vigor- ; ously in order ro relieve the situation. Hf-fore '-ompulsory transport, however, every idle person Is offered the oppor- tunity voluntarily to accept profitable work on contract, and compulsion is resorted re-sorted to only where the laborer etub.- ' bornly refuses. Workmen coming to Germany are placed 'on the same footing as Germans and are earning higher wag.'s than they ever re- reived in Belgium. Steps have been taken to send iarr of their earnings to their families in Belgium. The laborers also are permitted to makfi regular visits to their homes, and families are allowed to ; ari-ompanv them to Germany if that Is I desired. Provision also is made for re- ' ligious services in their own language. I |