The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-30
COMPETITION FROM ABROAD
 ELIMINATED FOR YEARS BY
 WAR, SAYS FRENCH EXPERT
Tremendous. Upheaval of Industrial Life of the Con
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 Paris. Nov. 3O-That the volume of business between the United States and Europe will not cease with the war that the United States will not for several years have to fear Euro pean competition in manufactured products, is the opinion expressed here by Robert Pinot. general secre- tary of the Comite des Forges de France This organization is the of ficial representative of the Creusot manufacturers of France and the medium through which the French government is now securing large quantities of war munitions for the use of the French and Russian arm ies.
 In an interview. MT. Pinot said:
 Tt is unfortunately true that we must look to the United States for several years to supply us with money or credits and with raw and manu-g factured materials I say this is un- fortunately true because I realize that we will be working for the next PC years to pay what we owe. Not be- fore that time can we begin to put any profits in our own pockets. The fear that so soon as the war is ended the manufacturers now busy making arms and cannon and shells will con- vert their factories into the making of products to compete with yours is ungrounded
 While we French iron and steel men have been doing surprising work. in eur munitions. while we are turn ing out more than the English fac fories. while our people have shown 2 marvellous example of <inprovision. while we have done all this with our best plants and our mines in the hands of the Germans. we are not spperhuman. We cannot turn around go soon as the war is over and be- B1n flooding your home markets, be- cuuse of our cheaper labor, or com pete with you in your foreign mar kets How can we We will first have Elte enormous task Of rebuilding our old steel plants of reconverting eur automopiIe, button. cloth. printing and railroad shops all now busy rnak- ing munitions. back to their old uses. We will have to try to repair the vast material destruction that has come with the war Then we will have to do our best to satisfy our own home have to continue to buy of you. as we are nov doing for war supplies.
 What chance is there for the American to do a steady business with us 1o<-g after the war is over. to fol- low up and establish himself in tl1e1 business now begun am not a prophet and the war is not yet over Rut here is a fact to be considered by the American n1anufa,ctu u< CT So 1k.s as concerns France, we iron and I steel men had begun to do a surprfs- ing business fn the few years before the war We were not only filling the demands made fh-this line on the home naarket, but we were beginning to go into the foreign trade. France hads almost ceased to be an sagTicuI- tura1 nation. believe, too that our products were the most perfectly made in the world. They were made to stand up to wear. won't say that way. that the American method is not the better: but our customers de- nnanded long wearing articles, and we satisfied their demands An Ameri- can locomotive is built to last seven years, whereas the railroads we sup ply want them to last 80 years. This Is condition the American must meet in future competition with
 Tn coffnection with the reconstruc- ton of the French factories destroyed in the North Of France, referred to py MI Pinot. a current report indi- cates increasing imports of cotton
 
 France is now using more American cotton than ever before the war. The totals for the first eight nontEs s of this yearsof such imports weres6, ,0 CO., 900 metric quintals of 100 kflos each 1 Before the war France had 7.200.- 900 cotton spindles and 120.Oo0 dooms. At the end of 1914 but 2 per cent or 1.800,0O0 were in opera l ton. due to the German invasion Of 1 the 4Vosges and Yille districts Now 40 per cent. or 3,00o,O00 spindIes are in operation with zs2O0.0O0 stIl idle.
 There is a prospect for large or ders of American railway supplies be- tng placed in France. The North l vere1y by the German invasion, and the other four large railway systems are badly in need of new material of all Kinds. While the latter four rail- ways have, during the present year. earned over z O per cent. of their nor may receipts both for freights and passengers. they delayed placing or ders for new material until this fall 1 So far American car firms have taken orders Tor 10000 freight cars, March delivery. Other orders amounting to 1 rf1ore than $20.00o.Oo0 were being 1 placed by the French roads when theI Balkan situation fnterfered with ! zvaiIabIe ocean freights and now dr being placed in England The s6uthern Railway ordered 1000 ears rom a Belgian firm newly established in Spain when this freight situation | developed. otherwise this order would [ nave gone to an American firm.
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