The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-06-25
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IIVI0[GL0TR|nG
EooI Stays IN Warehouse
and Farmers are in Diff
ficuIties as Result.

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66nds Of shoddy were thrown on the
msticar clothing market In 1913,
Tiiile 4 billion pounds Of unmanuiac
iiIed virgin wool were aecumuian aas
.iIthe storehouses. Shoddy Is MAUI ae
% Eoolen rags, respun perhaps as
6|ien q eight times. 1t IS woven
Iilh a small percentage OF virgin
lifdl "a stick the broken fibres 10.
sSfher Of the 100000, 900 yards OF
in iTooPs cloth produced by t2e
Hadcn's mills, the amount Of S Sno nGS
ira would have produced 2SOgVO;SOg
fafas II straight shoddy cloth MAD
,6Sn turned out. Mixed with o little
I'm wool. Il entered into the compo
Slfion Of a vastly greater yrdage::
In t1e same period, the amount OF
nv WOOL used would have produced
200, 900 yards OF virgin wool c!otn.
4 II had not been adulterated Wlth
itoady
These statistics were made public
ldday by the National Sheep ana no
Wool Bureau Of America, no: -
S6nth La Sale street, which Is Or
RSnizing the sheep, farm and business
iniefnsfs On the country behind the
y Fanch,C Camper Truth 10 Fabric blu
9ilS bilI was left 10 the hands OF ihe
Ifetstatc Commerce Committees OF
i,g;k houses Of Congress nj adlourn'
Eiaent. i Is designed 10 compeI, mann
Incsiircfs 70 stamp their c!oih with
flie 6ercentage Of virgil wool aud Oh
abcidy,1it contains.
Howard E. Green, secretary Of the
batean, speaking Of the INVESTIGATORS
t'lits made says:
SIt would have taken 1,55OOOO,VgG
Sounds Of virgin wool 10 have MADE
lie entire C2O,0G0,0OO yards Of all
etOof cloth turned out by our Mills.
But the entire amount need not have
beel made OF virgin wool. There
Should have been virgin wool cloth
ior those who could afford 1t and
Slioddy for thinner purses. That
,V1hld have provided Tor fair compe-
eifion between virgin wool cloth and
Sh0ddy' and for tair range OF prices.
instead. through the lack Of stamping.
shoddies were sold as all wool and
ne public, accepting all WOOL to
mean virgin wool, was denied the
rifht OF choice and the benefit Of q
range Of prices.
..Today. the stores are filled with
shoddy clothing and billion pounds,
a. virgin wool ill the storehOuses.
y TIE shoddy interests have become so
thoroughly entrenched through the
ffkht Of their product to masquerade
: az new wool under the popular
term. all WOOL that they have been
able to create in their own interest
an artificial over.supply OF virgin
wool.
Mn spite OF this billion pounds in
3 the storehouses, the world produces
q Third less wool annually than II
needs and the demand for new wool
4 as great as ever. The shoddy manus
facluress have simply thrown them
selves between the public with us
demand for virgin wool and the sheep |
men with their supply.
AS q result, the woo..gTC%ers arc !
being forced into insolvency. To save
those Of the West from ruin, the FED. !
efal Reserve Board has authorized
aha San Francisco Federal Reserve
Bank to advance money 10 help them
carry their unsold clips. But this ana
affords only temporary relief. The
farmers and sheep men must have
fiefmanent reliet from the unfair COM |
SeiiIion OF the rag.pickers.
"a flThat billion pounds OF unmanufac-
; ;trfsd. virgin wool in the storehouses.
kent from the public that want and
needs Il by the legal right OF manutac-
stlirers to use unidentified shOddy IN !
7their all wool cloth, threatens the
;annihilation Of the sheep and wool IN
dustry. 1t is to the interest Of every
voters to get behind the French
Gapper Truth in Fabric bill and see
that Il is enacted into law at the next
session OF Congress. Between eniight-
i9ned public opinion and the Truth IN
fabric law, the wool.growers may be
able to recover some Of this springs
Ibsses at next springs clip