Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-08-05
acts can be brought with advantage to the
Atlantic ports.

S - Sah DC brought to Boston or any
other Atlantic port at little extra cost.
ANA to talk of American workmen COM
peting with Chinese at the wages
paie IN that country lie to talk nom
sense; while pig iron will soon be
followed by steel and many other pro-
ducts. The Japanese drove our cotton
goods out OF the Manchurian market. and
are making great strides in producing
many other things now made in this
country. They will find market hereun-
less wages are greatly reduced, or a pro-
tective tariff restored.
| D. Y. Maben, president of the Sloss-
Sheffield Steel & Iron Co., of Birmingham
Ala, had this to say in the free trade New
York Times of July 10.
The first half Of this year was one Of the
worst periods in our history. We have close
| 10 100000 tons OF pig iron stocked up in Birm.
| ingham, while the normal supply is 10000
| tons.
Concurrently with that statement was
one telling OF the sale of pig iron from
| Nova Scotia to Delaware river pipe-mak-
ers who formerly bought southern iron.
and also OF the sale OF this Nova Scotia
IRON, made OF Newfoundland ore. at
bridgeport, Conn.,, and in other Atlantic
ports. The advantages in TRANSPORTATION
| give the Nova Scotia manufacturers con-
troll, while the Birmingham product is
stacked up in the yards. Then the Nova
Scotia mill is protected at home and can
afford to dump abroad while there is no
protection in this country to pig iron.
STEEL RAILS FROM INDIA.
The Iron Trade Reviep recently told OF
| steel rails from India sold on the Pacific
| coast for the first time. The Bombay cor
poration making the rails is building up
great modern steel plant, and is meeting
| with phenomenal success. 1t employs
| Charles p. Perrin, an American expert, and
he says that their iron ores range from so
| to IS per cent. metallic iron, and that they
| can be delivered for three fourths OF
cent unit. A steel manufacturer in
Coatesville, Pa, informed Senator Penrose
that a go per cent. ore is regarded as very
good quality, and he pays from seven to
eight and one half cents unit.
Mr.. Perrin says that in Bombay they get
their coal delivered at the works for 81 a
ton or less. At Coatesville they pay %
ton for gas coal and $3.50 for bituminous
coal. Mr.. Perrin says that they can put
pig iron on the ship at Calcutta at fifty
cents a ton, while the Coatesville manu-
facturer says that it costs his firm 81 to
put ton Of pig iron on shipboard at
Philadelphia, the nearest port, and s1.S0
to deliver it in New York.
But the difference in wages is tremen-
dous. The Bombay mills employ 1900 men
and women natives and 159 Europeans.
The latter receive almost as much in pay
as the entire 1000 natives. Pig iron from
the furnaces is carried by women in Bonn
bay for eight cents day, and Mr.. Perrin
says that they are entirely satisfied with
their pay, and the corporation is well
satisfied that ait can come into the Ameri-
can market now that the government has
kindly removed the duty and given it an
opportunity to place its surplus products
here".
And why should it not be well satisfied?
days wage in the Bombay mills would
not keep a workman busy fifteen minutes
in the United States mills. Our workmen
cannot compete with eight-cent day
labor, and with transportation ON ships
manned by similar la Dor, though the DEM
ocratic party has thrown the American
market open to such competition.
FOREIGN MANUFACTURERS JUBILANT.
A special despatch in the New York
Times from Berlin under date of July II,
SAYS:
German exports are jubilant over the bene-
fits they are deriving from the wool tariff.
Robert ]. Thompson, the American consul at
Aix-l -Chapelle, submits figures character
istic practically of all other consular dis
tricts in Germany, tnvoiced by experts. For
the quarter ended June 30, Aix-la-Chapelle
aggregated s2.ls7 $50 in exports to the United
States, as compared with sl,S4S,44e for the
same quarter Of 1918, a gain OF about IS per
cent. One exporter in Mr.. Thompson's dis
trict declares that America is now taking his
entire output, necessitating large increase
in his plant. Previously he had sold only
one-third of his output in the American mar
ket.
That news might we'll be contrasted
with the announcement made in the Sem
ate the other day OF the closing OF two
wooden mills in Lebanon, N. H., because
OF lack OF orders. Consular reports
from England tell OF like glee there over
American orders for wooleDs and cottons.
Senator Gallinger told OF New Hamp-
shire shoe manufacturer who had been
selling about 100000 worth annually to
Baltimore customer, and who received a
letter recently from the Baltimore man
saying that he would not want anything
more, because he had been offered lower
prices by an English manufacturer. The
British have been copying American lasts
and styles and are now beginning to profit
under the democratic free trade in boots
and shoes. The wages paid in England,
according to British government return,
are considerably less than one-half those
paid in the industry in the United States.
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