Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-05-28
J.J. HILL SOUNDS
warning Note
TELLS OF CONDITIONS THAT
EXIST AND WHAT FUTURE
TRADE MUST BE. "
IN TIE SANE CLASS
Labor Unions Control the Wage,
Mart and Cost of Manufacture
y AFavors Germany.

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Washington May Blower 800
manufacturers and representatives of
the commercial organizations Of the
United States launched the frs. Ma
tional Foreign Trade convention to-
day, with many prominent men as
speakers, who analysed the perils end
opportunities for American commerce
abroad. I
At a banquet tonight Secretary OF
State Bryan outlined the administra-
tons attitude toward the campaign
for better and closer relations with
all other countries.
Washington, May 27.--James J.
Hill, discussing 1.-The Future of Our.
Foreign Trade in a paper read at the
National Foreign Trade Convention,
here today, intimated that the United,
States might be in danger Of running
into such a widespread industrial dis.
tress as England now found itself
from attempting to hold markets
against competitors while maintain
ing a wage scale that does not permit
her to meet their prices and does not
offer to capital an inducement into
new fields of development" .... |
He compared the per capita value
Of foreign trade Of the United States,
which is SAL, to that of Germany,
which is 81 and that of the United
Kingdom, which is 1925. He said it
was q short.sighted optimism that has
concentrated attention for many
years on the increasing of our exports
and manufactured products. Ger
many was constantly capturing Eng
lish markets because of the inability
of the English manufacture to change
his working conditions in conformity
to general changes that have taken
place. The United States was follow
ing England's example.
Says Trade Unions Regulate Wages.
""The power, Of the English trades
unions became practically arbitrary
in liking wages, hours and general
working conditions. Germany found
that, with a more advantageous wage
scale, she could 60 into the worlds
markets and compete at prices
which England could not meet. Hence
the enormous growth of German ex-
ports. Hence a competition which the
United States itself cannot meet in
many lines, and which it could not
meet at all did not immense and &C.
cessible natural resources, and, in GER
tain lines of manufacture, the use OF
skilled labor and highly com.
plicated machines which cheaper la
Dor is not competent to handle, give
US q temporary advantage.
Advantages Disappear. I
; But that advantage, like every
other exceptional local condition in
the world trade, tends to be equalized
and disappears" .,
3, He pictured the industrial distress
in England and said it would seem
that rational conduct might save the
day, "but the burden placed by un.
wise restricted legislation and unnec.
essary taxation upon business in the
United States are producing their
natural effects here also. Just such
mistakes as Great Britain has made
and is making may confront the Amer.
ican workingman with a lost job, and
empty cupboard and no younger and
more. promising land to which he may
emligrate. Losing gradually the advan-
tages that u position and resources
have given us up to a recent date
nothing but deeper wisdom and a
keener sense Of justice toward all
factors that must unite. to create ma
!tional prosperity can keep us at the
front in the race with other nations
or even insure US against disappoint-
ment, disorder and economic distress
at home. :,
Exports Increased. b.
Our exports in cotton goods to the
Philippines during the past year have
increased 100 per cent" he continued
"a trade lin which the Southern cotton
mills hold a commanding post on" Il
g. The situation of our export trade,
however, he concluded, "calls for a
cooperative and we'll organized cam
paign to not only hold the business we
Low have but to enlarge it, and the
Southern cotton mills who are now
prepared to cater to the export trade
are not only willing but anxious to
Join In any effort that will lead to-
greater development and. greater vol
ume OF the export trade. We believe
that the export trade or the markets
abroad should not be regarded as a
dumping ground for goods that could
not be sold at home, but we should
realize that our mills exceed now the
eonsumptive capacity of the home
trade and every effort should be made
10 extend our export trade in all pro-
auctions and in all directions" !,
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