Classification Into 22
Categories Prone Oun Own Commrowerr Mukden, Sept. 28.
To provide better state protection to key industries, to regulate the Industrial activities of the Empire and {o strengthen the Japan-Manchoukuo Economic Bloc is the announced pur-ose of a new Industrial Control Law Which it Is expected will be prommulgated around the beginning of the year. The draft was considered at a conference held in Hsinking on September 5, between representatives of th Kwantung Army, the Japanese Embassy, the Kwanting Bureau and the Manchoukuo Government. The draft approved by that conference is to be taken to Japan by Counsellor Shima of the Department of Industry and Counsellor Mingbe.of the State Planning Department. 'There it will be discussed with the Ministry' of Commerce and Industry and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
When the economic programme for Manchoukuo was published, industries were divided into three main groups with about twenty classifcatiins in each group. Japanese capitalists found it extremely dimeult to distin gush between "Controlled" and "Free" industries, The draft law is intended to furnish a clear-cut def {nition and thereby remove a serious obstacle to the flow of Japenese capital in to Manchoukuo, Twenty-two Larger Groups Mining and Tumbering are already. under perfect State control and therefore included in the list, of 22 industries which are considered important from the points of view of national defence and national econo mies, according to the official press. Tt is further stated that the system of one corporation for one industry {will be the guiding principle of the new law In order that all the key dusteles of the country may be developed under State control and protection and managed along unl~ form and rational lines. Priority is given to those corporations which are already in operation.
The 22 industries affected are those concerned in the manufacture er pro-notion of tobacco, sugar, soya bean-all, four, matches, sawn lumber, salt, soda, artinial fertilizer, beer, alcohol mineral ils, cement, oxygen, iron, steel and other metals, motor cars lecegoods, holsery, pulp and ganized-iron sheois.
Tobacco Situation The lst is perplexing. It starts with tobacco. The Incorporation of the subsidiaries of the B.A.T. Ca. under the laws of Manchoukuo took place last month. The new Manchurian Tobacco Company has just completed it's new factory in the outskirts of Hsinking. The Toa Tobacco Company has greatly enlarged it's plant at Mukden. Messrs. I. Tsehurin Ca,, once the premier Russian trad. ing concern in North Manchuria and now under British control, operate a cigarette factory, so the principle of tone company for each Important industry would seem to be a long way from realization in cigarettes.
While the number of companies engaged in flour-milling, expressing bean-oil, and distilling is large, addition there were eight cement mills, 36 lumber factories, sixteen match factories, €0 cotton mills large and small, and 702 hand weaving plants in only six centres, according lists" published in 1904. The method of application of the prin~ ciples announced to these industries {is not apparent.
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