als. For
lack of market, 671 establishments with 219,000 workers reduced their
output. The greatest sufferers have been the building trades and the
industries connected therewith--structural iron, cement, (concrete,)
brickmaking, &c.

The railroads have suffered greatly through the cancellation of
registered orders and by the stoppage of further orders from Poland,
also by the military mobilization.

During the month of August, 1914, the gross earnings of the Russian
railroads, both State and private, were only half of their gross
earnings for August the year before.

The unexpected prohibition of alcoholic beverages has almost ruined the
liquor industry.

For lack of demand 83 textile factories with 95,000 employes have
reduced their output. The lack of raw material forced 103 cotton mills
with 188,000 weavers to cut down their output. This makes 40 per cent.
of the total cotton mills of Russia. Similar reductions have occurred in
the silk, woolen, linen, and hemp industries.

The Ministry has withheld the data as to the exact nature of the raw
materials wanting, but it may be surmised that raw cotton and dyestuffs
are among the chief items.

Among the remedies suggested are better credit facilities and the
resumption of interrupted intercourse with friendly and neutral powers
for the securing of raw material.

Declaration of the Russian Industrial Interests

[Russkia Vedomosti, No. 217, Sept. 21, (Oct. 4,) 1914, P. 5.]

Referring to the abundance of donations forthcoming from the industrial
interests for the victims of war, the Council of the Conventions of the
industrial interests declares its confidence in the ability of Russian
industry to bear the burden of war cheerfully and whole-heartedly.

The Council finds the proposed measures of the Government for its
financing of the campaign insufficient, and promises to come forward
with its own project of a special single property and personal war tax.

Then the causes of the war are summed up and the importance of the war
for the industrial interests is outlined. The chief cause of the war is
assigned to the irreconcilable economic conflict between the German and
Russian interests created by commercial treaties favorable to Germany.

Victorious Russia should dictate her own economic programme to the
defeated enemy. Without such a result all sacrifices made will be in
vain, and will fall as a heavy and unbearable burden upon the shattered
economic