New Britain herald., 1922-08-10

in the same city for less than tioo,
 In cases where hand labor enters largely Into the manufacture of the articles in question. foreign eompe- | tition & said to be very keen, In many cases specialized machin- cry Is adjusted to the thousandth part of an inch and competing asticles made by hand are neeessar- | lily very crude in comparison. In most every case it is said the German article Is far inferior to the American article in quality,
 No Menace To Stanley Works.
 When asked this morning if it were true that small German tools, competing with the Stanley Rule & Level company were flooding Ameri- | can markets, President F, Allen Moore replied that there has been a rumor, and 1t may be true that Ger man goods are being held for sale here. but at the present time 1t is not a serious menace.
 F. O. Rackliffe, secretary-treasurer of Rackliffe Brothers company, which concern makes a specially Of selling Stanley Tools said there were vefy few if any quotations coming through from German factories on tools which compete with Stanley tools.
 Vacuum Bottles Suffer.
 Vacuum bottles. such as are man. ufactured by the Landers, Frary and Clark company meet some very keen competition on the markets. In fact so keen in opposition here that Ger man vacuum bottles. sell for as low as 50 cents in some places. while the glass in the Landers' bottle can not be manufactured for that price. However, the fly in the ointment here. Is that the German bottle will not stand up. A housekeeper who pur- chased one of the cheaper bottles last Christmas endeavored to pour hot coffee into 1t. with the result that the l bottle flew into a thousand pieces When the purchase was made, the purchaser was not aware that 1t was foreign made product, as the old trademark Made in Germany" seems to have almost entirely disap- peared.
 Must Sell On Quality Basis | "A. c. Kimball, president of Landers, Frary and Clark, American manu- lecturers cannot compete on a price basis with Germany, they must sell their products exclusively on a uual- l ity basis German manufacturers of lines produced by LIS have almost without exception specialized on lcheap goods and have therefore not attained that reputation for quality upon which the American manufac- turer has been forced to rely under q low tariff schedule, in order to find a market"
 Fundamentally the inability of the American manufacturer to compete with Germany is due to the radical difference in the wage schedule, Ger man workers receiving about one fourth of the wages paid American workmen for similar work and this is enhanced at the present time by a most unfavorable exchange situation which multiplies many times the pur- chasing power of American money in foreign goods'
 Protection Needed.
 American manufacturers cannot expect to do a normal business on lines of merchandise for which Ger many competes, until adequate pro- lection is granted that will enable them to pay the American schedule Of wages and keep their men em- ployed without doing business at a loss'
 Patent Protection Keeps.
 up to the present several of the lines manufactured by Us have not been effected by foreign competition because of patent protection, but they have suffered somewhat, of course. due to the general unsettled business conditions and the considerable un- employment for which the still un- remedied tariff situation is largely re- sponsible."