Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1909 — CANNERS’ TARIFF DEMANDS [ARTICLE]

CANNERS’ TARIFF DEMANDS

Ask For Free Tin Plate and 3ugar and Deny Use of Chemicals. Louisville, Ky., Feb. s.—Denial that chemicals are used in the goods put up by any member of the National Canners’ association was made by that body at the adjournment of their second annual convention. Charles S. Crary, Hoopeston, 111., president; L. A. Sears, Chllltcothe, 0., vice president, and F. E. Gorrell, Belair, Md., secretary and treasurer, were re-elected. The canners called for an absolute abolition of the tariff on tin plate and sugar, and asked government standards for tin plate material.