Evening star., 1934-01-21
BRITAIN EXPECTED !
TO KEEP TARIFFS
SheffieId's Iron and Steel
Leaders Feel Benefits .
of Protection. J.,
BY NEGLEY FARSoM.

BY Gable to The Star.
SHEFFIELD, England, January 30
Shef1eld's iron and steel BOOM" m
vestigated on the spot by this coeYs-
spondent, shows that the 0ritish stssl
makers, at any rate, are convinced that
Great Britain's 33Hs Per cent tariff
wall has come TO stay. ''.'.-
First, virtually all Of Great Britaan's
81 per cent increase in iron and steel
production last year was 10 meet the
chiefly by the tariffs, which reduced
iron and steel imports by more than 90
per cent.
The next influence in order of I'm
portance was the armaments boom, with
orders for armor plate, guns and other
equipment in Great Britain's new naval
program, and legitimate and long held
up requirements at which the other
powers, at any rate, have no right to
complain
cott was immensely effective IN help
Ing the tariffs keep out German goods.
admefi and finally: Iyc there was the an-around
by the general improvement in other
trades. most Of which was occssioned
by the tariffs itself
Empire Plan Pushed.
Exports rose by only $4,000, 900, viz
tually all of which went to the dofnin-
ions, Australia, New Zealand and
ample Of Great Britain's campaign for
self-suflciency within the empire.
1t might be Illuminating REGARDING
the Canadian increase, considering the
TACT that Canada is next door to the
united States, the worlds largest steel
maker, to say that the Sheffield oficials
themselves claim it is a result accom-
pllShed by private delegation, which
the British Steel Association sent along
with the British official mission to the
OTTAWA Imperial Economic Conference.
Al That parley the association group
MADE a successful dicker with Canadian
Steei stsa;o , men under the auspices Of
That the Sheffield steel makers are
conndent that the tariffs have come 10
stay and that the revival is go,ns ~
last, may be adjudged from THE fact
that the Sheffield Municipality as well
as Dig hrms like Vickers, the English
Steel Company. Firth Brown (alnoet
monopoly manufacturers of the famous
stainless steeD and Hadfield's. virtually
all the leading Sheffield industrialists,
nave restored the pay cuts forced on
tneir employees during the panic year
Unemployment has dropped from
$4,000 TO $4,000 and re-empioynent Is
proceeding at the rate Of 1900 workers
month.
Further evidence of new construction
IS the lotion electric furnace which
Firth Brown have just added TO their
2O-ton unit for stainless steel, giving
them the two largest furnaces OF this
kind in Europe.
New Mills Opened. E
A new sheet mill, new lead-rolhnr
mills, new hacksaw mill and two new
scissor mills all the last word in a mass
production, and cheap cutley factory;
have just been constructed by a Jewish
rlrm and are all set to scoop the Ger
man trade.
The cheap cutlery boom was Shelf
helds most spectacular and most sen.
satlonal development Of the last yea
1t accounted for 80 per cent Of tn,
increased cutlery orders. 1t means tha
Shefheld has at last bowed its prout
mead to the times and now is willing.
10 make cheap goods which the genera
public as well as the Far East narket,
demands. 1t is a market which Shef-
neld was once content to leave to the
Jealous German manufacturers. And q
large part Of this newly-found market
lies right inside the British Isles.
Scissors are an example Before the
tariffs came into being and before Great
Britain departed from the gold stand
ard, the British imported more than
100000 scissors from Germany every
year as well as a small quantity fron,
the United States and France, That
trade is gone now.
(CopyriEht 1Q34)