“German handwork,” said an ap
peal at the time of the November
plebiscite, “is indissolubly bound
up with the thousand-years-old
kultur of the German race, and
has ever shown the true national
instinct in times of crisis. It will
t^ke the foremost place in the
l Reich's reconstruction.”
A law was passed as far back as
last July whereby cigar manufac
turers, for instance, were forbid
den to instal modern mass-pro
ducing machinery. They were,
however, permitted to continue us
ing their present machines, pro
vided they did not turn out more
than the previous week’s output.
Government subsidies were of
fered in various ways to such oth
er industries as were willing to
/lease usin gmachinery and revert
to hand work, in so far as this
was possible.
Bo< ting Consumption
Spasmodic e'forts followed to
boost this ' r that trade.
“Buy yor' -'i: r hat; give your
hatter a o’ rice.” was one week's
slogan. A h^.t uoed ti be the
distingr'?! r.r dp a of the free
itsen cT tin n'dlle agio."
I “Twenty thouoand pianos are
needed in ooh-o’s to cultivate Ger
man folk sengs,” w'as the next
cry.
Everybody must wear a blue suit
for Sunday boot," runs a decree
by Robert Lev. leader of the "La
bor Front." Bue clothes were the
garb cf h'-nor, worn only by free
born men in the middle ages,”
Instructions were incidentally
gftven that a red-patterned shirt
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