The sun., 1919-09-15
MANUFACTURERS TO
SEEK EXPORT TRADE
National Association Forms
Corporation-South Amer.
lea to Be First Field.
BIGGEST YET ORGANIZED
Leading Firms in Various In
dustries Represented on
Board of Directors.

! rha National Association Of Manufac-
xurers announced yesterday the lorna
tion of an export corporation unoer .no
Webb-Pomerene act which VIII Dc inc
largest aggregation of Interests yes
Sorned for export trade. Members Oh
tbs Manufacturers Association alone
Ara eligible to membership, but as the
associat,on represents manufacturers
whose combined product Is greater tnan
that of any other nation In the worio'
and as II takes in all fields OF Industry,
the most important results are expecteo
from the combination.
The new corporation is to be known
as the Namusa South American Cor
poration. II has already nled us re-
uuired statement with the Federal trace
Commission, which shows II to De larger
than any other similar corporation, as
most ~ the previous ones were devised
20 represent only the manufactures VI
a single line, industry or group.
The Namusa corporation has electeo n
hoard of directors embracing every group
OF manufacturers in the national associa-
ton, has appointed its executive otncers
and opened its New York headquarters
At 30 Church street. Next week us
trade ambassadors will start for South
America,
Goods VIII BE Guaranteed.
It is the PURPOSE of the new corpora
tion to provide information OF every
conceivable sort from customs reguia-
tions to market needs in every field II
enters At the same time, its member
ship being limited to members OF the
National Association Of Manufactures
Il will be In a position to guarantee 10
foreign purchasers the reliability OF
American goods which they may pur-
chase
AS soon as the plan has been worked
out successfully for South America 1t Is
the intention Of its promoters to extend
Il throughout the world. A novel fea-
ture Of the organization plan of the new
corporation Is that group organizations
TO represent special interests may be
formed within 1t, to represent the vari-
Gus classes of industry which 1t contains.
These minor groups, however, Will func-
ton under the general supervision OF the
whole. tits hoped thus to provide a Dig
Organization with the requisite prestige
TO meet foreign competition OF the
strongest sort and at the same time
afford to the American exporter hexi-
BILE, useful agency through which his
! business may be conducted properly. q.
Departmental statesmen will operate
out of the foreign offices as soon as they
are established and the plan will event.
ually be so developed that II can be used
as the export department of any Ameri-
can manufacturer, large or small.
Directors for the Corporation.
The board Of directors Of the new cor
poration consists OF L e. Barnes. secre-
tary Benedict Manufacturing Company
East Syracuse, N. Y; ]. l.. Brennan
secretary Dexter Yarn Company, Paw
tucleet, r. l.; A. P. Chute. secretary
DUNCAN, Hood & Co., Inc, Philadelphia
w. H. Cowdery. president American
Fork and Hoe Company. Cleveland j. +.
Hemenway. treasurer Smith & Hemen-
way Company, Inc, 261 Broadway. New
York city; II. G. Herget, president Pekin
Cooperage Company, Pekin, Ill /: George
D. Iverson, Jr., president American Belt
ing Companies, Texas, Nd; Albert C.
Lehman, president Blaw-Knox Company
Pittsburg; Paul Noble, vice president
American Aniline Products, Inc. so Fifth
avenue, New York city; H. Read, presi-
dent Read Machinery Company. Inc.
York, Pa. Wv. C. Robblee. president
Daniel Hays Company. Gloversville
N. Y; Charles L. Taylor treasurer Tay.
Tor & Fem Company, Hartford; DIR: Ed
ward Weston, president Weston Elec
trical Instrument Company, Newark
N. j.; G. d. White, vice-president Pat
ton Paint Company, Newark, N. J.
William p. White, treasurer Lowell
Paper Tube Corporation. Lowell, Mass.