BERLIN, Nov. 18.—The difference between production in German and American factories lies in the difference in factory arrangements, and not in man power efficiency as asserted by industry, says Kurt Heinig, a writer for the Socialist newspaper Vorwarts, who has just returned from America, where he inspected the Ford plant.

Another drawback on German production is the tendency to make every article luxurious, while American manufacturers consider only the practical side, Heinig declares, and adds that both these hindrances to German industrial efficiency are chargeable to inflation days, which then were simply stupidity, but now are a catastrophe. During inflation, he says, when the saving of marks was folly and the buying of stable foreign currencies was illegal, German companies invested their profits in new and extensive additions to their plants. A German plant covering the same area as a Ford plant would produce about fifty cars a week instead of 8,000 daily, Heinig says.

The difference in production is caused by difference in efficiency in plant arrangement, the German workmen being obliged to spend time walking about huge buildings instead of working.

But Heinig sees flaws in Ford's system. Moving belts requiring men to work lying on their backs or walking about with their hands full of tools, and having no chance to discuss labor problems, are not regarded as the zenith of invention. Labor unions, he adds, regard Ford's requiring men to work on moving belts in the same light as chaining slaves to galley oars.