Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-07-30
NOT ALARMED
American Tin Plate Manufac-
turers Sure of Success
Notwithstanding the Reports from
Over the Sea.
Opinion of One of the Larges'
Tin Importers.

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EfFect-The Cause of the Partial Re
sumption of Work in the Welsh Fac
tortes-Increased Exports of Pig Tis
from the Malay Peninsula - Welsh
| Workmen Refuse to Work at Reduced
! Wages and May Come to America.
PITTsBURa, July 30.-The New Yorh
correspondent of The Dispatch says that
the following cable dispatch was re
ceived from London Tuesday:
''Some of the tin plate factories ir
Wales resumed work this morning
The original agreement was that all
should shut down for the month of July
and those manufacturers who have
started up profess to have done so on in
formation from the United States that
little progress was being made there.
The Welshmen say they do not consider
further restrictions of their output neces.
sary."
An Importers Views.
The dispatch was shown to H. r. De.
Milt, one of the largest importers of tin
plate, and the representative in this city
of p. H. Laufman & Company, who are
said to be making an average of 20O
boxes of tin plate daily, at Apollo, near
Pittsburg. Mr., DeMilt said:
There is nothing in that Those peo-
pie over there know very well that ii
would be impossible for American tin
plate makers to get into running order
within month after the tariff went i'll
to effect. Besides, the American market
= AI,a nh
rushed over here last spring, and it will
be over-stocked for some time to come.
AS an evidence of this tin plate is today
selling in the market at from fifty cents
to 81 a box lower than it can now posi-
bly, be imported for. And even over
there the price is now down to the very
lowest point"
"How much tin plate do you suppose
there is now in the American marketY'
was asked.
at is impossible to say" was Mr.. De
Milt's reply, but there is certainly
enough to supply the market for at least
three or four months to come. Then, as
to their starting up, there is good rea-
son for that. 1t must be understood that
by sending such enormous quantities of
plate to America before the 1st of July
they not only very much depleted their
stock but made considerable profit.
While the usual stock carried by the
Welsh mills is from 100000 to 500, 600
boxes, they had on the 1st of July about
1853 900 boxes on hand, and this consisted
largely of odd lots. OF course this de-
pletion must be replenished, and they
very well know that they will not lose
anything by having fair stock on hand
when the demand begins again, which
it certainly must, to some degree, AT
least, when the stock on hand here is ex-
hausted. There is no object in conceal
ing the fact that our own manufactur-
ers will not be able to supply anything
like the demand for some time to come,
even after they got into good running
order, for our consumption is enormous,
and there will consequently still be o
heavy demand for the foreign goods, but
these must be sold in competition with
ours. This will stimulate the home in
dustry, and in course of time. put it ON
a solid footing.
Demands of the WOrkmen.
"The reason the Welsh mills are start
ing little earlier is to meet the dissatis-
faction Of their workmen, who are be-
coming discontented that the mills
should now shut down and throw them
out of employment after having made
such good thing by the great demand
for tin during the months of June and
May. All we ask is little time-time
to exhaust the supply with which every
house here is loaded down, and time to
get the works built and in running
order, and then with new machinery,
which must inevitably come and over
turn the old-fashioned methods of max
ing the plates, theirs is no reason why
America should not lead the world in
the manufacture of timed plates, as il
does in so many other branches of in
dustry."
Pig Tin from the Malay Peninsula.
A dispatch from Washington says:
United States Consul Wildman, at Sing
apore, has just sent the following report
to the state department, which is timely
in view of the tin plate agitation. He
says the passage of the new tariff law,
which placed duty on tin plate, has a
beneficial effect on the tin mining of the
Malay peninsula, inasmuch as it in
creased the demand for pig tin in the
United States. He says:
Formerly the tin that was destined
for tin plate to be used in the United
States was shipped in large quantities to
different parts of the United Kingdom,
where il was manufactured into tin
plate, and the plate exported to the
United States instead of the raw mate
rial. With the duty ON tin plate this
industry became less profitable to the
English manufacturer, and instead of
shipping the manufactured article, the
export of pig tin direct has in a great
measure taken its place. In other words,
pig tin is now going direct to the United
States instead of by the way of Great
Britain.
According TO the statements made
by the governor of the Straits settle
ments, this consular district mines half
of the tin of the world. The quantity
and value of tin from the Straits settle
ments that finds its way to the United
States can hardly be directly ascertained
by the quarterly reports OF the colony,
for, as | have before pointed out, large
quantities of tin, as well as other prod
uce destined for the United States, are
shipped via London and Hong Kong for
reshipment, and, consequently, are not
nlaced 10 the credit of the United
States.
"The firms shipping from here are
English and Germans. There is no
American capital engaged in the produc-
tion or export Of tin, although the
United States is such heavy buyer. In
my Judgment, if an American house
were TO be established in Singapore it
would control not only the shipments of
tin TO the United States. but the ship