New Britain herald., 1925-09-19

OlS HSdI5 iluCu VI llS SpllAEIll- cut industry, or the New England cigar industry. Connecticut tobacco Is used for wrappers; but when cigar manufacturers In Connecti- cut--in New Britain, Mlddletown, Hartford or New Havcn-buy Con necticut tobacco for the wrappers, do they buy 1t in Connecticut? They do If they get the chance; but most of them can't. There may be to- bacco growers all around a city containing cigar manufacturers, but when the manufacturer wishes to buy Connecticut wrappers that were grown in his back yard, so to speak, he buys them in New York.
 Yet there is a howl among the tobacco growers that New England CTS of all folk in this vast nation, should smoke the New England product. But instead of marketing enough Of the New England product in New England to take care of the New England demand, and then marketing the remainder in New York. the entire crop is marketed in the metropolis, 80 that when New England cigar manufacturers buy wrappers for their product, they are on the same footing as cigar manufacturers elsewhere despite the tobacco growing industry around them.
 All of which adds 10 the price of manufacture. The New York brok
 CTS are not in business for their health, and their aim Is to pay as little as possible for tobacco grown In Connecticut and resell ii to the Connecticut cigar manufacturers at as high price as possible.
 | There is no logical reason why l Connecticut tobacco manufacturers should not be able to buy Connecti- cut wrappers in Connecticut, and
 not in New York. The present to- | baCco growers association is being
 operated upon what are considered
 good principIos-for inc association
 but not for the Now England
 cigar manufacturing industry. When
 New England grown weeds have tc
 be bought in New York there is
 something wrong about the system
 If the tobacco industry of this tier
 of states wants 10 improve the whole
 industry, and not merely the oppor-
 tunities of the growers, then as
 much Connecticut tobacco as is used
 in New England should be retained
 in New England, In that way the
 interests of the entire industr!
 would be furthered. and the grow
 CTS would benefit just as much anC have the satisfaction of knowing they are contributing to the pros perity of a New England industr, and enabling it to compete witt firms in the same line elsewhere. All New England CT Connection . tobacco growers do not belong t the association. which Is fortunat for some native Connecticut tohac
 co manufacturers, who are thu } able to obtain a supply of Connect I cut tobacco without going to Ne' l York for it. If every tobacco grow l CT in the Connecticut valley belong - ed 10 the association it would mea l the early extinction of the so-calle = Independent cigar manufacturers y Now England, something that tn
 big fellows devoutly wish, Then tn
 big fellows, freed from the possihi
 ties of competition by the little Ne
 England fellows. would quite etfet d lively dictate the price to the tt y harco growers association. II wouI y be a case of "sell to us or sell 2 nobody"
 'f Bnt he that as it may the ma t objection 10 the methods Of the a IT sociation is that it makes no a Il tempt to take care of the New Enj e land industry as a whole; in fact
 is helping New Englands compet It tors rather than New England. ], all justice, it should look after q y interests of the industry in Nc 'e England first,