The San Francisco call., 1896-12-12
Manufacturers Want no
More Convict Goods
Made.
A Big Experimental California
Cigar. Factory Contem.
plated.
If 1t Prove Successful Havana Cigars
Will Sell at Sixty Dollars a
Thousand.

The Manufacturers and Producers AS
sociation placed itself on record yesterday
as in emphatic opposition to California
State convict manufactures except in the
making of jute bags ard the cracking of
stone from prison quarries for use on pub
lie highways. 1t also approved of a con-
vict labor bill, a peddler's license bill and
State supplies bill, all of which it in
dorsed and ordered forwarded imnedi-
ately to the Code Com missioners to show
the sentiment on the subjects treated.
During the meeting Sam X. Thornton
was introduced and addressed tie board
upon the advantages and the encourage
ment that should be accorded the culture
of tobacco in California. In part he said: (:
"The culture OF tobacco and manufac-
ture of cigars can be made one of the most
important industries of the State.
'The tobacco now grown at San Felipe,
Santa Clara County, is superior to any in
the United States and superior to that of
Cuba.
1--WE are seeking to interest capital in
the manufacture of cigars, and our propo-
sition is to secure ten men who will put
up 5000 each-$2000 in ALTO start an ex
perimental cigar-factory to be run four
months, at the end of which time If it is
proven that the industry can be run profit
ably more capital will be secured. We
have now on hand $4,000 pounds of the
crop of 1894 and 900 pounds of the 1895
crop that is ready TO be manufactured into
cigars. The cigars can be made at an act
ual cost OF $35 thousand. They are be-
ing now sold at $75, but it is our purpose
to sell them at $50
THE crop OF 1928 was sold in New
York and the cigars sent out here and sold
as the genuine Havana leaf"
A meeting will be held by those inter
ested Monday next at P. NJ. ct the rooms
of the State Board Of Trade.
The association also indorsed q bill to
the Stale Legislature ito regulate the pro-
fession and provide for the registration of
public accountants" Such accountants,
according to the regulations of the bill,
must regularly quall1y before committee
OF the Board of Regents of the University
OF California to be permitted to engage in
the particular profession indicated. In
other words they must prove their fitness
before they can engage in the profession
of expert accounting.
The board appointed as permanent dele
gates TO the recently named Council OF
Associated Industries, Messrs. Mead,
Keller and Kerr, who shall represent the
Manufacturers and Producers Associa-
ton in that body.
Frank Ian OF Zan Bros. & Co., broom
makers of this City. appeared before the
board and asked permission to send 10 the
Legislature through the Manufacturers
ana Producers Association two bills for
the broom making industry here. He had
not yet framed the bills. but will soon
present them to the association. They
practically strike at the broom making
business in the State Asylum for the adult
blind where, because the institution is
maintained by the public, brooms can be
made so cheap that the ordinary home
manufacturer cannot compete in this
market.
The resolution against the contemplated
increase in the list of convict m ade goods,
as intimated in the recent recommends
ton of the Board of State Prison Direct
ors to Governor Budd, was offered by Ju-
lian Sonntag, and copies will be sent to all
labor ORGANIZATIONS TO enlist their cooper
alton. The resolution in part is as fol-
lows:
Resolred;r That the Manufacturers and Pro-
ducers' Association of California are uualter-
ably opposed TO the employment OF eonvic.s
within the State prisons or California, other
than in the manufacture OF jute bags aud the
breaking of stones taken from quarry upon
prison grounds for the use of public roads and
highways; that as an association we will use
all honorable means to defeat any bill or meas
ure which may be presented by the Honorable
Board OF State Prison Directors TO the LegisIs-
to convicts, other than the two herein named.