Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 May 1930 — Page 3

MAY 15, 1930.

HIGH TARIFF IS NO PROTECTION, LABOR CLAIMS Economists Pool Efforts in Campaign Against Grundy Measure. By Bcrippa-H award Xewapapcr Alliance WASHINGTON, May 15.—Alarmed by the prospect of general unemployment and greatly increased living costs should the Grundy billion dollar tariff bill become effective, labor economists have pooled their efforts in a campaign to destroy tim belief that high tariffs protect the American worker from the competing lower living standards of Europe and Asia. The fact is, according to United States tariff commission statistics which form the basis of the labor attack on the Grundy rates, that American wage levels during the last half century have been f xed by high per capita productivity Evidence that this high United States productivity had operated independently of import duties is found in the fact that our exports of manufactures have increased steadily from 46 per cent of our shipments in 1914 to 54 per cent in 1929. “Wages are much higher in the United States,” says a recent report of the tariff commission, “but wages in themselves are no indication of relative cost of production. Frequently it is found that high wages and low labor-costs go together.” It is the latter phenomena which accounts for cheaper production costs in America, despite the lower wage levels of competing industrial countries. Cotton goods provides a striking example of the manner in which foreign wages are used as a smoke screen to shield the extortionate tariff demands of domestic manufacturers. In hearings on the Hawley-Smoot bill, now in conference, tariff advocates cited the fact that Japanese mill owners pay a

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POISON ALKY VOTE INDICATES GAINBYWETS Six Senators, Before on Dry Side, Join to Bar Deadly Denaturants. < BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 15.—Indications that wets have gained a little strength and wedged slightly into the overwhelming dry senate majority were seen today in the analysis of the votes on the “poison alcohol amendment” of Senator Tydings (Dem., Md.) The wets mustered nineteen votes for the amendment, and at least three more of their number were absent, so the total wet strength of the senate now can be fixed at about twenty-two votes against about seventy-four drys. Six senators who previously have not been identified with the wet cause voted for the Tydings proposal to ban the use of deadly poisons in industrial alcohol. Their stand was considered significant politically in view of the polls and statements claiming a change of sentiment among the voters on the prohibition issue within the last year. The six are senators Wheeler

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WAR MOTHERS' SNIP IS NEARINO PORT 300 American Women to Arrive at Cherbourg Friday Morning. BY STEWART BROWN United Frees Staff Correspondent PARIS, May 15.—Three hundred Gold Star mothers and widows, the first contingent of 6,000 who will visit the war cemeteries of France at the expense of the United States government, arrive at Cherbourg Friday morning from New York. Their arrival aboard the United States liner America marks the commencement of the first organized pilgrimage of its kind ever attempted by the United States. Sixteen other liners will bring similar groups throughout the summer and for two weeks they will visit the chief American war cemeteries and points of interest around Paris. From Cherbourg the party will be taken by special train to Paris through the beautiful rolling hills of Normandy and its green pastures dotted with red topped farm houses. It was purposely arranged by the American graves registration service that the war mothers and widows

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