New-York tribune., 1922-05-27
Tariff Tightens
Grip of Trusts,
Saws vsUnterrnver
Building Materials Men Can
Fix Prices at Will Under
Proposed Schedule. He
TellsLockwood Committee
Suggests Senate Fight
Brick and Cement Combines
Already Too Highly Pro-
tecied. Attorneys View

Samuel Untermyer, chief counsel to
the Lockwood committee. placed on the
record at yesterdays session a vicor-
ous protest against the proposed in
crease N tariffs on building materials
coming into this country. lr support
Of his objections the counsel offered in
evidence comparative tables OF existing
ard proposed duties, suggesting that
they he made the basis for possible
recommendations to the Senate com
mittee now considering the subject.
II is Mr.. Untermyer's contention that
an increase IN these duties at this time
would only strengthen the grip of the
combines N the building industry, and
hy giving them free rein to charge
whatever prices they chose, would
prove serious obstacle to the relief OF
'he housing shortage.
The committee also took up yester
dsy tire situation in Buffalo, where
$4,000 900 schoolhouse program has
ncen Neld Up for n year and hall be
csuse of sqUabbles over alleged match
lnc Of bids by contractors and the
utter indifference toward finances dis
Ecucatlon. Il developed. too, in this
ring, which Rad been indicted after
TIE committees visit 10 the upstate
CITY last vear, was still on the lob and
that TIE Queen Cit Brick Company.
also indicted for N mopolizing the
brick trade there, was doing business
"s1 ths old stand
Granite Men to Disband
There we're lntjmstions that as the
r.sult Of yesterdays testimony these
two combinations we're to be the sub
5cct OF more stringent legal action.
On the heels Of the decision Of the
National Granite Association to dis
hand last Thursday come tho an
nounce ment Of the dissolution Of the
New York Building Granite Association
and the Architectural lyon and Bronze
Association, tro Of the organizations
recently attacked hy the committee
Daniel a. Brown. granite contractor,
- 495 Eighth Avenue Brooklyn, said
that the granite men took action at
meeting last SATURDAY.. The iron and
tronzc men voted n d shsnd At meet
ing N Chicago on Nav II
The testimony on the operations Of
the Jewish Rskers Union was con
Guided With the examination Of Jacob
Goldstone ar organizer for the In
terr9tlonal Bakers Union. and tho warn
.ng. y rYll give YOU until tonight to
close the rival bake shop on Avenue
{" issued to the union by Mr. Inter
me-
Thig referred tn the rival bakery estab-
l,shed hv the union men next door to the
snop cf Max Schlesinger. 90 Avenue {.
vhor' the organized workers are try
ing - rum with $4,000 fund h.
selinx bread products below cost, be
cause Schlesineer wanted TO drop ONE
Of his men for whom he had no work
There was an intiimstelou IN Nh.
rutermver's voice and manner that
= the place u-ae not closed, the union
rer would immediately he prosecuted
for conspiracy.
New Chance for Cement Trust
Wren Mr Unterm>er began reading
t-c tariff data INTO the record, Assem-
h,yrar George =. Iesse engaged the
counsel in hrief debate on tho sub
iect, asserting that he wanted tive mat
Ter clarifed Mr. Unternyer cited as
ar example thst when the cement
manufacturers haze heen in the sort
Of arrangement that has heen dis
ri,sed here. when al corpetit,cu ls
strarrle6 - hone. Congress should
he advised cf that fact in the formula
ton IF ite tarf
IF cement had bcen tree" ha con
t:rued, "es II has not bean under tho
Underwood bill the shllit. IN the part