The speech of the Chairman at the annual meeting of
the Brad- ford Dyers' Association on Monday contained some interesting and very important statements on the relation of the dyeing industry and the manufacture of explosives. He pointed out that benzol, toluol, and carbolic, nitric, and sulphuric acids are the raw materials from which dyes and high explosives are alike made. By her possession of practically the whole of the dyeing trade Germany started the war with an enormous advantage. She had only to divert the colour-making plant to the manu- facture of high explosives, and hundreds of new munition factories came instantly into existence. The Chairman gave as an example one German colour factory, which alone employed ten thousand men before the war, and now employs fourteen thousand men making explosives.
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