Berlin, Sept. 7. introduction. of German mining industry, the number miners in Germany' has decreased from 1,3 million in 1921 to half a million"in 1931, it was stated today by the president of the miners union Herr Husemann in opening the annual congress at Bochum, During the last year, he dedo (ed, 94 per cent. of the total output had been worked with machinery white a decade ago human power had still dominated over mechanical aid. Finally, Husemann state ed that' of the 240,000 miners in the Ruhr district nearly" hundred-thousand were out of work owing to the curtailment of production caused by the erisis,—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min,
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