Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-03-28
CUT IT, SAYS SCHWAB
Reduce the Tariff on Steel,
He Doesn't Care.
BELIEVES IN REDUCTION
Declares He Feels as Andrew Car
negie Does on the Matter.
AMERICAN woRKMEN THE BEST
Furriers Protest Against the Sched-
ule in Payne Bill Affecting Them.
German Printers Object.

CHICAGO. March 27-"Cut the tariff
on steel or anything else you please.
American labor can stand it. I don't
care said Charles NJ Schwab. presi-
| dent of the Bethlehem Steel Company.
today. as he stood in the lobby of a
| local hotel waiting for a train.
Il believe In a reduction. I feel just
as Andrew Carnegie does on that mat
ter. American labor make the best
steel in the world. and with it we can
compete with the world. l know moth
ing about other lines-that is. technical
ly, but / have enough confidence in
American labor to believe that the tariff
can be cut without injuring business.
Il have been in contact with labor of
all kinds for many years. and l know
what it can do. / know that American
! workmen can produce more steel in
given time than any others in the world.
] know that they can put out better
steel thhn any others. We have nothing
to fear from d cut in duties. because We
have the best goods. 1t is true that We
pay our workmen more money than
other nations, but you always have to
pay skillful workmen the highest wages.
Therefore. the highest paid labor Is the
most profitable to the employer. The
skillful man makes money for his en-
ployer.
Mr. Schwab's business in Chicago. he
said. was in connection with the Bethle-
hem plant. He departed for New York
this afternoon.
Furriers Oppose Proposed Tarih.
NEW YORK. March c1.-A vigorous
protest against the proposed schedule
of the Payne tariff bill as it affects the
duty on furs is to be made to Congress
| by the manufacturers. importers and re-
tailers of furs throughout the country.
| At a meeting of furriers held here to-
| day "a committee of nine. made up OF rep
| resentatives of the importers. dyers and
| dressers was appointed to take to WASH
ington a petition soon to be circulated
| among the trade asking that the sched-
ule in fnrs as now existing under the
Dingiey act be maintained and no change
4 made.
Post Cards Printers Object.
Special Cablegram to The Star.
| BERLIN, March 27.-Those interested In
| the German photographic trade are sending
! representatives to America to protest
| against the tariff proposals in the Payne
bill. which came as surprise. This was
all the greater when it was seen that
| rise of from 200 to 800 per cent was con-
| templated.
| German attention is being directed to
the contradiction of statements made by
American traders before the committee
on ways and means regarding the rate OIL
wages paid in Germany. 1t Is alleged here
| that the American trade must have got
| it's information from some insignificant
| firm in the provinces for whom the MEM
bers of the family worked at third or
more below the customary rates One OF
the trades most concerned is that In pic
ture cards, which has enormously de-
veloped of late years.
Hosiery Men Astir.
| READING. Pa, March 27.-Hosiery
| manufacturers in this section to the num-
ber of forty today requested Representa-
! tive Rothermel to use his influence in
| favor of the increase in the tariff rate on
hosiery. The slight advance, they declare.
will be no burden to the consumer, as ii
will not increase the retail price of
hosiery, but will prevent the underselling
of American made goods by the imported
article.
Employees in every mill in this section
are signing and forwarding to Chairman
Payne of the ways and means committee
a request that the hosiery clause of the
tariff bill be passed as reported by the
| committee.
Want Free Lumber and Coal.
ST. PAUL, Minn.. March 27-In the
state senate today the house resolution
asking Congress today to put lumber and
coal on the free list of the Payne tariff
bill was passed.
Wool Growers Favor the Bill.
WASHINGTON, Pa. March 27.-Five
hundred wool growers of Washington
county, representing the State Wool
Growers Association. at an all-day meet
ing in the courthouse today adopted
resolution recommending the passage of
the new tariff bill, with it's original rec
ommendaton regarding the wool tariff
schedule.
In the discussion of the resolution,
many prominent wool growers advocated
the retention of the Dingley act rates, but
it was pointed out that the new schedule
is not a heavy increase and does not af-
feet the higher grades produced in Wash
ington county The resolution was finally
adopted by big majority.