Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-16

sum has been included which VIII pro-
vide for the reorganization of the bureau
into such form as win make 1t the basis
Tor productive effort In developing Amer
lean industries In every field which Is
normal to them at home and abroad
b1eny stated. the proposed organiza-
be located at each Of fourteen capitals
accredited to our embassies there by the
Department Of State. but reporting d.
rsctiy to the Department OF Commerce.
merce and industries OF the nations
where they reside. They will have no
other duties. They win collaborate with
the consuis. having the advantage Of the
larger view and OF the freedom from
other cares.
Reports by Consuls.
1T is recommended that the consuls
shall on purely commercial matters re-
merce and that they shall cooperate with
the commercial attaches In presenting
between them a complete and unified
knowledge of the commerce and indus
tries of our great competitors. These two
forces should normally supplement each
other-the attache has the general field.
the consul the particular field. The one
collects; the other co-ordinates. Each
supplies with the other that which with
out him We could not have. Each is at
once corrective and an incentive to the
other.
commercial agents. which is composed of
special Investigators trained in their
separate lines Of study. each pursuing
some special theme and for that pur-
pose travelling from country to country
wherever information on that subject can
be had. For this purpose q special ap-
preparation Of 100000 is asked for the
study Of commercial conditions in South
America
Possibly may have erred in not ask
great work. Certainly 1t Is not consistent
with our national self-respect to ask for
less. 1t should be noted. finally, that now
Is the appointed time. We have spent
several hundred millions In preparing the
Panama canal and the nations of the
world have been getting ready for its use
while we have done almost nothing &C
lively to promote the commerce which
should repay the nation, in part at least,
for this vast outlay.
Cost Of Production.
1t remains to state but one further
point of important policy that the de-
partment desires to carry out 1t wishes
to supplement the inquiry now drawing
to close into the cost of production In
the pottery industry by undertaking an
inquiry into the cost of production of
clothing of all kinds and of different
materials, including hosiery. knit goods
and their fellows.
1T Is recalled that not only is this a
matter which affects every man and
woman in the country, but that 1t Is a
subject which has been approached sew
eral times. but which has never received
thoughtful study as a whole. The late
tariff board inquired into the cost Of cot
ton and wooden and worsted cloth, and
to some extent into the costs of making
knit goods and hosiery. It did not, how
ever. pursue its inquiry fully into the
cost of making all clothing of various
kinds. Different states and municipali-
ties have given study to the important
question of wages and labor in the cloth
ing industries. and to the working con-
ditions in them. No one to my knowl-
edge has ever correlated the work of the
various public and private organizations
national. state and municipal--and has
added to them an inquiry into the funda-
mental elements of cost in these indus
tries.
Expected Results.
Such study should have important
social results. It should develop the
question as to whether the sweatshop is
economically efficient, or whether, by a
properly organized and more scientific
method Of manufacture it would not be
eliminated by the natural operation OF
economic law
For all the work of his great DEPART
ment Secretary Redfield asks CONGRESS
to appropriate $15, 500. go. an increase of
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