Evening star., 1921-11-19
TONIC OF LOWER COSTS NEED
FOR FULL TRADE RECOVERY Y
Reports From Many Business Centers
Show That Majority of Traders Have
Taken Their Medicine.

tment by G. E. vizner, superintendent
of the Mingo Junction and Bellaire
plants
NEW YORK, November 10 Especially.
The supply of turkeys in this mar
ket still continues short considering
the near approach of Thanksgiving;
Some fancy dry packed Maryland
pound. while fancy Virginia fowls
realized IS to Sc cents. Tennessee.
Kentucky and Texas fancy birds aver
age so to 81 cents for dry-packed stock.
Live Stock.
SEATTLE. November 10 Especially
The decline in packers demand for
prime hogs and lessened public buy
ing has resulted in the lowest hog
prices recorded here in twelve years
Top prices for prime light hogs range
from 1926 to 1915 per 100 pounds;
smooth heavies from 81 to $S. These
prices compare with a range of $40
to $12 in 1914.
Coal.
SAVANNAH. Ca, November n (Spe-
ciaD are being made
here to handle half a million tons
VI AHlcElCdu COdl through lHiS pOIt
to Cuba in the next year.
P1TTSBURG. Kans.. November 10
Especially. The whistles blew at
every mine in this coal district to-
day. but the majority Of the miners
here still continued on the strike
inaugurated against the ruling IF the
Kansas industrial court in the Howat
case, in spite of the threat by Prcsi-
dent Lewis of the mine workers that
| every local might be expelled from
the organization.
LEWISTON. Idaho, November 10
apple production in Idaho have been
broken this year. 1t Is now esti-
mated that the apple movement will
total between 400 and 5000 cars.
NEW ORLEANS, November 10 (Spe-
cial)-Indications point to a long
tending into 1922. The weather has
been favorable. the sugar content of
| the cane having benefited by the cool
weather. Advices from other sugar.
| growing countries indicate the sup
ply may fall short of the expected
| totals because OF droughts.
NEW ORLEANS. November 10 (Spe-
] ciaD.-The American Sugar Refining
| Company has purchased and is ship
ping shipload of Louisiana sugar
! which will be refined at New York and
distributed throughout the east: This
will be the first shipment of this kind
for four or five years.
Leather and Hides.
| BOSTON. November 10 (SpeciaD.-
| The pronounced demand for cheap
| shoes is having strong influence on
a la 11 ia,
more active demand for side leather
and the cheaper grades of upper
and sole feathers. Hides are strong,
and reports indicate both South
| America and domestic markets are
well cleaned up.
| ATLANTIC CITY, November 19
| (SpeciaD.-Ice manufacturers here
are considering the advisability of a
| widespread advertising campaign to
induce the using Of ice throughout the
| entire year instead Of through the
summer months only.
| PHILADELPHIA, November 10 (Spe-
J ciaD.-Two hundred men have been
| called back to work at the plant of
the Sharpless Separator Company.
| which has been idle eleven months.
| The company, which makes dairy ma
| chinery, is said to be in receipt of
| large foreign orders.
Fufn.
| KANSAS CITY, November 19 (Spe-
ciaD.-There is every indication for
west this season. Missouri, Kansas,
lowe, Nebraska, Oklahoma end Ar
| kansas are selling more furs than
| at any time for many years.
Fish.
NEW. YORK, November 10 (speciaD:
A shipment of 100000 live cells will
arrive in specially constructed barGes
from Canada this week. They are
expected to sell here for 10 to II
cents a pound and each eel weighs
from to 10 pounds
Lumber.
SEATTLE, November 10 Especially
All rail lumber loading for points in
the middle west, including shipments
Of shingles, is running 60 per cent
Of normal Thirty-five per cent of
mill orders are for water route de-
livery.
CHICAGO, November 10 Especially
Lard prices are down. This IS ac
counted for by large hog shipments.
The price is down in reflection of
hog prices.
ALLIANCE. Ohio, November 1s|
Especially The plant of the Ameri-
can Steel Foundries Companv, which
has recently resumed production, will
put an additional force Of men to
work next week and will continue
to increase it's pay roll until capacity
production is reached.
Notes.
ST. LOUIS, November 19 Especially.
strenuous efforts are being made in
this territory to bring about wage
and price reductions in the building
industries. Considerable pressure Is
being exerted to induce contractors
and building trades unions and ma
terial companies to agree on reduc-
decrease Of 20 per cent in costs. In
dications are that an agreement will
be reached on which to base con-
struction which will cost more than a
million dollars.
NEW YORK. November - Especially.
Union bakers considered today the
proposal Of tho New York master
bakers that the workers agree to q
wage cut which would enable the
dealers to reduce the price Of q pound
loaf Of bread from to cents. Tho
master bakers propose that = commit
tee from the workers and ono from
tho employers meet with an impartial
arbitrator to determine what wage IL
justidable.