Arizona republican., 1913-12-16

which will provide for the reorgani- | zation of the bureau into such form 1 as will make it the basis for pro-
 ductive effort in developing American
 industries in every field which is normal to them at home and abroad. 1 Briefly stated, the proposed or SanizatiOn provides for commercial ! attaches to be located al each of
 fourteen capitals accredited to our embassies there by the department of state but reporting directly to the l department of commerce. Their pur- pose will be to study the commerce 1 and industries of the nations where they reside. They will have no other duties They will collabOrate with
 the consuls, having the advantage of the larger view and of the freedom 1 from other cares.
 Tt is recommended that the con suls shall on purely commercial mat ters report directly to the depart ment of commerce and that they shall cooperate with the commercial attaches in presenting between them a complete and unified knowledge or the commerce and industries 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-ordin- ates. Each supplies with the other that which without him we could not have. Each is at once a corrective and an incentive to the other
 Tt is intended to enlarge the force I of commercial agents which IS com posed of special investigators trained in their separate lines of study. each pursuing some special theme, and for ] that purpose travelling from country to country wherever informa tion on 1 that subject can be had. For this purpose special appropriation ot S1G0. 900 is asked for the study "i commercial conditions in South | America.
 1 Possibly I may have erred in not | asking a more adequate provision for this great work Certainly it is not consistent with our national self ! respect to ask for less. It should be noted. finally. that now is the ap- { pointed time. We have spent several hundred millions preparing the Pan- i anna canal and the nations Of the i world have been getting ready for | it's use while we have done almost nothing actively to promote the com merce which should repay the naton' i in part at least. for this vast outlaH. ] Ut remains to state bat one i further point of important policy that | the department desires to carry out
 It wishes to supplement the ihqulY ! now drawing to a close into the cost | of production in the pottery industry i by undertaking an inquiry into tilr 1 cost of production of clothing of all  cIuding hosiery. knit goods. and their 1 fellows.
 ] .Tt is recalled that not only is this 1 a matter witch affects every man land woman in the country. but that l it is q subject which has been ap- preached several times. but which has never received thoughtful study as l whole. The late tariff board inquired 1 into the cost of cotton and wooden land worsted cloth and to some eN- | tent into the costs of making knit i goods and hosiery. It did not. how | ever pursue it's inquiries fully into | the cost of making all clothing of various kinds. Different states and municipalities have given study to | the important question of wages and labor in the clothing industries and | to the working conditions in them No one to my knowledge 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 fundamental elements of cost in
 these industries.
 Such study should have import ant social results. It should de- velop 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 this great de 1 partment Secretary Redfield asks
 congress to appropriate $l5,S00.270. an 1 increase of a little more than s4.000,- | GOO over the present year. The re mainder of his report is devoted to
 a review of the work of the bureau
 ! of fisheries the steamboat inspection
 service the bureau of navigation and
 1 it's efforts for the promotion Of
 ! safety at sea, the census. the bureau
 of standards. and important work it
 1 is conducting for municipalities and
 the activities of the bureau of light
 houses and the coast and geodetic
 l survey.