Technikatörténeti szemle 22. (1996)

Papers from the Second International Conference on the History of Chemistry and Chemical Industry (Eger, Hungary, 16–19 August, 1995) - Vámos, Éva Katalin: Contributions to the History of the Association of Hungarian Chemical Industrials

auction did not come to an end by braking down consumption, by the pecuniary embarrassment of agriculture and the general deterioration of production..." - "Doubling of the income tax, the emergency tax, the increase of the bonus tax, the flour tax, which counterbalanced the decrease in consumers' wheat prices, the increase in mail and telegraph prices, the raise of telephone call-rates by 40% and the introduction of the fees for payments by cheque, in which latter matter the government did not even give a hearing to the industry, increased the costs of production in a similar way."

13 In the questions of transport the Association tried to influence the tariff policy of the Hungarian State Railways (MÁV). In the years between the two world wars MÁV, in general, did not have at their disposal sufficient goods waggons in the last three months of the year, when the greatest part of industrial deliveries were performed. Therefore, the Association tried to fight out a tariff discount for the less busy periods. Questions of social policy and workers' problems were much dealt with by the Association from the employers' side. Before World War I these were restricted, in the first place, to giving an opinion on the workers' insurance draft and to presenting some special lectures. During World War I complaint commissions were created for settling social questions. In these; the chemical industry was represented by Lajos Deutsch, technical director of the Share Company Hungária for Fertilizers, Sulfuric Acid and Chemical Industry, and Géza Waldhauser, co-owner of the Biehn János Asphalt, Tar and Chemical Products Factory. After 1920 the Association brought into being a wages commission, among others with the task of assigning percental supplementary wages adjusted to the deterioration of the crown currency. In the years 1923-24 such supplementary wages were assigned 24 times.

14 From time to time the Association gave an extensive valuation of the development of Hungary's chemical industry. Thus, e.g., in 1933 a survey treating, in particular, following points: - products of factories set up on new factory grounds for manufacturing entirely new articles, - factories that enlarged their capacities on their existing grounds for producing articles till then not produced in the country, - products of producers that had recently set up the production of chemical goods formerly already produced in the country, - the list of chemicals and chemical products of therapeutic purity produced in Hungary along with the names of their manufacturers, and - the description of chemical half-products, ancillary materials and products not produced at that time in Hungary.

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