Industrial Crisis in Upper Silesia

The newspaper „Przegl. Wiecz.“ writes that the position of the mining industry in Upper Silesia is growing ever harder. Orders from Germany have fallen considerably. Metallurgical production does not find full sales within the country, all the more so at the present moment, because farmers who own industrial enterprises are refraining from spending on new machines. At the Królewska and Laura ironworks all the workers and clerks have been dismissed. The principal shareholders do not want to keep their factories running any longer, because they get only losses from them.