Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-08-26
SHOES AND THE
TRADE
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SAs point we often lose sightsokis that
when we export q manufactured arr
ticle, we are exporting d great many
constituent parts that wesdon't seat
farst glance .e:
ri the case ssof ! shoe. we a1esex-
insthea "a m calf skim we
exporting In the sole, 20 hide;
In the shank, steel; in the lining. tex
tile: IN the facings of cheap shoes;
sheep skin. 5at &
These are ali visible substances. but
hidden away. in the shoe. and paid
Afor.by the foreign purchaser an labor
EgSts, transportation costs, rentsatAxes,
lAatestan bark that was used In tanning
Tie feather. part Of the. cost of the
maple lasts that the shoe was made
the shoe was made with; the coal
that was consumed in making power.
All these are In the 1shociwhen It is
delivered to the foreign buyer; the
foreign buyer pays the shoe manu-
facturer for these things and the shoe
manufacturer passes the money, after
;deducting his own fair share. to those
who have furnished various parts,
seen and unseen lin fact, the matter
For example, that Massachusetts
mannfa ctured shoes in 1p14 ann unt-
Ing to more than 5000 100000. Nearly
$47, 000,0 0 Of this money was paid
out by shoe manufacturers to wage
learners.a We cannot attempt to trace
the subdivision of this money; It was
used to pay rent, to buy food and
clothes, part was put into the savings
bank. The part that was spent for
way in part at least, through the
packing houses and the wooden and
cotton mills, to the growers OF beei
and sheep and cotton.
The Massachusetts, shoe manufac-
turers paid more than 1920, 600, 000
for raw materials. AS we have indi.
Gated above. a large part of this swat
spent for goat skin, calf skin and sole
[leather-part OF 1t vas spent, for eye.
lets. Innings. rubber heels and com:
position soles. The tanners, ine5Penn'
sylvania, Massachusetts,, New York
and Wisconsin that sold the upper
leather and sole leather to the. shoe
manufacturers, initurn had to buy tar
jibark for their watts. and this came
largely from Virginia, North Caro-
lima, Tennessee. Wisconsin and Michii
gan, and the money that they pait
for the tan bark was { distributed
largely among the wage earners, ant
from their hands went into the peck.
| SSO VI ~ lOSoA AS tOscIA
there, but to. go back to- WHOLESALER
land manufacturers. !, 1890
The tanners also had, TO, buy hide
and skins from the packing houses
and they had to pay wages. amount
ing to nearly $32, o00. 900, and ,thei,
wage .earners also spent their none.
with the local tradesmen. and put j
into the local banks. The packin,
houses paid part of the money tina
they received from tanners out in tn.
form of wages. but they paid vastl.
more of it to the raisers of cattle
sheep. hogs and goats. and this none.
going to our grazing states like Mon
tana. Wyoming and New Mexico an.
Texas, as well as allAthe central states
~atforded the last step IN this sslWaideS Dts
tribution of the money thai the sihos,
manufacturer in Massachusetts;s'f44
Example. received for shoes that HI
sent abroad. But there were lots o
side avenues down which part of tn
money trickled. The last make
bought his maple in the northern for
ests and paid for It with the none,
that he received from the shoe manu-