Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-10-01
NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF
STATE MANUFACTURERS
ASSOCIATIONS.

Registration Offices for the Conven-
ton of the National Conference of
State Manufacturers Associations,
held for the purpose of discussing the
three leading questions now pending
before Congress -TAXATION, THE
TARIFF. and TRANSPORTATION
were opened at the Congress Hotel
the morning of September 2Sth, at ten
o'clock, a day ahead of the opening of
the Convention.
Discussion of the pending Tariff
Legislation occupied both sessions of
the opening day-September 29th. The
meeting was presided over by William
Butterworth, President of the Confer
ence and head of Deere and Company,
Moline, Illinois, manufacturers of ag-
ricultural implements Speakers on the
Tariff question were: Congressman
Joseph w. Fordney of Saginaw, Michi-
gan, Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee, House of Representative
E Kent Hubbard, President of the
Manufacturers Association, of Con-
necticut Inc, Hartford, Connecticut
Walter Camp, of the New Haven Clock
Company, New Haven, Connecticut;
William Burgess, of the United States
Tariff Commission, Washington, D. c.;
Judge Marion DeVries, Court of Gus
toms Appeals, Washington, D. c.;
Wilbur F. Wakeman American PrOtec-
tive Tariff League, New York City;
J. B. Reynolds, Treasury Department,
Washington, D. c.; W. E. Wells, Of
Newell, West Virginia.
Friday, September Goth, was devoted
to the discussion of the Taxation and
Transportation problems. The Sales
Tax, the Excess Profits Tax, and all
other phases of the question will be
discussed in open meetings. The
Speakers were: c. A Andrews, Presi-
dent of the Gorton-Pew Fisheries Com
pany, Gloucester, Massachusetts; Hon
Orable Ira G. Copley, of the Ways and
Means Committee, House of Repre-
sentatives
Discussion of the Transportation
question covered the Refunding Legis-
lation, Cost of Operation, the Possible
ties of Reduction in Freight and Pas
senger Rates, and the Administration
of the United States Railroad Labor
Board, the latter to be in the hands
of Judge R. M. Barton, Chairman OF
the Board, and Mr. w. L. Allen, Vice
President and General Manager of TIM
Laclede Steel Company, st. Louis
Missouri
Other speakers on Transportation
were: z. B. Leigh, President of the
Chicago Railway Equipment Company
Chicago, Illinois,; Clarence E. Bement
President and General Manager of the
Novo Engine Company, Lansing, Mich
igan. A. G. Davis, Vice-President and
General Manager of the Quincy Bal
Bearing Company, jamestown, N. Y;
Ivy L. Lee, New York City.
Sixty-fve managers attended the
meeting of the Cook County Football
league, but only thirty-nine games
were booked. No wonder they kick
The fight for the local baseball
championship between the Sox ant
the Cubs commences next Wednesday
at Cubs Park on the North Side.
Otto Rice, the popular head of tn,
organized laundry business in The
United States and Canada, is one O
the men of whom Chicago is proud
He would make a great mayor. TIL
taxpayers would certainly benefit b.
his election. But he is not a candi
date
John M. Naghten, head of the BIZ
real estate firm of John NJ Naghten {
Company is one of the coming men O
Chicago. He is a booster for ever
big enterprise that will help the city
Otto Kerner, one of the most Dor
ular lawyers in Chicago, is muc