1 to Oct. 14, 1914._
Altogether 8,550 of the largest industrial establishments, excepting
those of Poland, have been investigated. These employ 1,602,000 workers.
Of those investigated 502 factories employing 46,586 employes had to be
closed down entirely, while 1,034 establishments with 435,000
wage-earners have cut down their working force to 319,000. Thus about
one-third of the total industrial wage-earning force has felt the
effects of the war either through total discharge or through diminished
output.
The lack of trained labor power and the failure to obtain funds have
affected 222 establishments with 58,000 workers. Lack of funds has been
very severely felt in the Baltic provinces, (there, especially, in the
chemical industry,) affecting fourteen establishments with 15,701
workers. Altogether 132 establishments with 50,000 employes have cut
down their operations, and of these 30 per cent. employing 15,000
workers belonged to the chemical industry. Also twenty establishments of
the metal working (fine machinery) industry with 11,000 employes had to
curtail their volume of business. In other industries the lack of labor
supply has not been felt. Evidently only the industries requiring highly
qualified labor have suffered from this cause. The shortage of fuel
forced 108 establishments with 49,000 workers to diminish their output,
and eleven establishments with 3,000 workers had to close down
altogether.
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