Fact and Comment.

The article presents business-related developments as of February 1923. Employers have introduced industrial democracy, profit sharing and bonus plans during the war-time scramble for workers. The French government's invasion of the Ruhr, the industrial heart of Germany, is said to have been stimulated by a desire to obtain a strange-hold upon Germany and German territory. Coal mine owners and miners had better strike when their agreement expires and both have exhausted the public's patience.