The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1921-06-24
Law Provides That All Cloth Fab
RIGS Must Show Contents.
STAMPED ON CLOTH OF GREAT
IMPORTANCE TO SHEEPMEN

Washington, June 13.-The French
Capper Truth in Fabric bill, which
proposes to compel fabric manufac-
turers to stamp their cloth with its
contents Of virgin wool and Of shod-
dy, received the support Of practical
~ every important farm and stock
organization Of America while under
consideration by the Interstate Com
n4erce Committee Of the Senate.
/ Among the witnesses also We're rep
resentatives 0f the merchant tallnrs
and the dyers anl cleaners Ut he na-'
ton. Men and women in nearly ev-
ery walk Of life were represented by
Spokesman who urged the speedy en-
actment Of the measure. Following
the hearings, statement was pre-
pared for presentation to President
| Harding, briefly explaining the issue.
This was signed by representatives OF
the American Farm Bureau Fedora
ton. the National Grange, the Nation
al Board of Farm Organizations, the
National Sheep ard Wool Bureau of
America, the international Associa-
ton of Dyers and Cleaners, the Ma
tional Association Of Merchant Tail.
ors of America, the Wyoming Wool
Growers Association, the Ohio Sheep
and Wool Growers Association, the
South Dakota Sheep and Wool Grow
ers' Association, the Davenport
lowa) Women's Club, the Tri-State
Wool Growers Association, the Wash
ington County (Pa.) Farm Bureau
the Washington County Pomona
. Grange, the Washington County Woo
Growers Association, the American
. Delaine Record Association, the New
York State Federation Of County
Sheep Growers Cooperative Associa
) tions. Inc, The Chicago Literar!
, Score. the American Ramboulllet AS
ISOLATION, the Union County (Ohio
Wool Growers Association and tn
: MARYLAND Sheep Growers Associa
: ton. The names of upwards of PSI
t other organizations which have en-
'. dorsed the bill were appended. LII
+ statement read:
eYour attention is invited to til
fact that virgin wool is counterfelte
bv substitutes in cloth and clothes
s Counterfeiting is ia all cases an IN
k tolerable wrong and in direct oppc
q sition to the policy of our Government
: to prevent fraud and deception. Tn
: wrong and the menace that resu]
!. from counterfeiting virgin wool ar
IS greater than in the case Of othe
e counterfeiting, for the reason that tn
e counterfeiting Of virgin wool take
5 advantage of the peoples misunde1
g standing of the terms, all wool an
!, pure WOOL which the people te,iev
=. can mean only virgin wool; but whlc
Il NAV include all grades of substitute
even the NEST inferior. The counte'
st feiting of virgin wool by substitute
= not only inficts grievous wrong upo
the consuming public, and deprive
the distributors and consumers (
wool fabrics of their right to kno
e the exact contents of their purchase
re but will, If continued, inevitably d
IS stroy sheep husbandry, an essentl
industry. Three things are imper
:, tive in order to right the wrong viii.
q. results from substitutes counterfeit
C ing virgin wool: /. The compulsol
in STAMPING of wool cloth; TT
as COMPULSORY identification of subst
ne tutes; 2.-the designation IN precl
and unmistakable terms Of both su
stitutes and virgin wool. The Frenc
Capper Truth in Fabric bill, known
a. the Senate as S. 100 and, in TIE Hou
N. of Representatives, as H. R. 81, max
10 it compulsory to stamp wool cloth,
-, ~ identify substitutes and to designa
u. both substitutes and virgin wool
ed precise and unmistakable terms a
he would put a stop to substitutes cou
in terfeiting virgin wool. You a.
90 therefore, earnestly requested by t
od organizations and representatly
IN whose signatures are here append
81 to exercise every proper lnfiuen
within your power to accomplish
SPEEDY enactment Of the French-Cs
- per Truth in Fabric bill"