The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-07-17
Competition With
SEVEN.CENT LABOR
American Free Trade Enables In
dia to Re.establish Her Iron
and Steel Industry.

are really DESTROYS of und ars.and M
the nature of the composition Am
erican manufacturers and wage earn
ers are facing undsr the Democrat,
Tariff law could not find boatel
illustration chan the steel Industry
in India"
United States Senator PsnrOse made
this statement yesterday after his re.
turn from Washington, where he had
received Information through Charlie:
p. Perrin IN regard 10 a certain steel
mill IN Bombay with which Mr.. Perrin
has been identified for 10 years.
The Senator explained Girsut Mr..
Perm is consulting engineer of
national reputation living in New York
and that he has been associated with
family of Parsees who have under
taken to develop and REDS. ablish in
India the iron Industry which was
very uctive one there 200 years ago,
but which had practically sap
peared.
1.-THE company with which Mr.. Per-
in is Identified" said Senator Pen
rose, lis endeavoring to build a mod
ern steel plant which will be in a
position to compete with manufac-
lures of steel rails all over the world
and i Us meeting with phenomenal
success. Mr.. Perrin says that their
iron ores range from so to 65 per
cent metallic iron and that they can
be delivered for three-quarters of a
unit.
"A steel manufacturer in Coates
vile to whom | submittdi Mr.. Per-
ms Statement said that in Pennsyl-
vania "a 60 per cent ore is regarded
as very good quality and that he
pays from Z cents to IL cents a
unit.
MIR. Perrin says that in Bombay
they ges their coal delivered at the
works for 81 a ton or less. Mr.
Worth, of CoattSville, says they pay
SO ton for gas coal and $3.50 a ton
for bituminous coal.
MIR. Perm says that they can put
pig iron ON the ship in Calcutta for
80 or 81 cents ton. Mr. Worth says
that it costs his firm 81 to put
ton of pig iron on shipboaid at Phil
adelphia, which is their nearest port,
and it costs thine Sl.SO to deliver 1t
in New York.
MIR. Perrin says that the labor
conditions in Bombay are interest,"
ng and constantly Improving They
ire lndeAi Interesting. | should say
that they are also Alarming. The
Bombay mills employ 1000 men and
women natives aid 159 Europeans.
The payroll for the 159 Europeans is
between 5 and 10 per cent less Than
the entire payroll for the. 1000 ma
tivas. Think Of that. One hundred |
and fifty-nine European workers get
almost as much money as 1000 ina
i've lnuldn WORKERS.
MIR. Perrin tells us that the pig
ron from the furnaces is carri,n by
who receive for their services
The sum of 1-2 annas, or cents
| day. Their pay has recently been
They used to get annas,
'r cents, and common laborers now
'eceive 4 annas. or cents a day.
ffThis, Mr.. Perrin said, is so per
'ent bette" than before the entry OF
lis firm into the country, and he
lec'ares that the natives are en-
irely satisfied with their pay.
We feel he said, that we can
ONE into the American market, now
hat the Federal Government has
indy removed the Tariff and given
s an opportunity to place our sur
!us product
1T must be plain TO anybody that
cargo Of rails set down at San
francisco from his Bombay mill
ould be sold profitably at a price far
Glow the cost of production i'm a
ennsy.yania mill. The relative eust
materials AM labor IS sudh that
are almost superfluous.
days wages in the Bombay mills
ould not keep workman busy half
A hour in our mills. Mr.. Perun's
'sertion that 1853 European laborers
Bombay receive almost as much
~ in the aggregate as the entire
900 natives empolyed by his company
is The whole story and shows how
UGH chance we have of surviving
/ open competition with the cheap
bor Of the worIi."-Doylestowm
a. Intelligencer.