U.S.A. TARIFF

Grey River Argus, 20 August 1934, Page 5

U.S.A. TARIFF

LIFTED OFF FODDER By the President (Aus A’ N.Z (’able Assn.? NEW YORK, August 18. The “New York Times’s” Washington correspondent has learned that President Roosevelt on August 10th, took the unprecedented action of waiving, by the Presidential proclamation, the import duties on hay and other types of forage, for the benefit of the drought-stricken western livestock producers. No announcement was made at the time, as it was hoped that it might not be necessary to invoke the proclamation, but now substantial imports are considered to be imperative. It is expected that they will come entirely from Canada. It is also reported that certain types of wheat for seed purposes will probably be necessary, but there is no indication if these will receive tariff benefits. SHIPPING SUBSIDIES. AGRICULTURAL MINISTER HOSTILE. (Received August 19 at 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 19. The Washington correspondent of the “New York American” declares that Mr Wallace (Secretary of Agriculture), in a letter to Representative Schuyler Bland, the Chairman of the Merchant Marine Committee, oppose*? granting any further subsidies to American shipping, on the argument that such payment to foreign carriers is a form of “invisible export,” giving the prospective foreign buyers more money with which to purchase American farm products. “Any further Governmental encouragement to the shipping industry by subsidies or similar measures,” Mr Wallace writes, “would tern! to divert the energies of our people in some degree into shipping, as compared with other industries. Is it not possible that it may be more to our economic advantage as a nation to concentrate on the exploitation of our rich internal resources, leaving partly to foreigners the carrying trade in which our natural advantages over them are not as great as in other forms of production ? ’ ’ Textile Workers Strike extension of movement. (Received August 19 at 6.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, August 17. Strikes involving 325.000 additional workers were voted on Friday night in woollen and worsted, and silk rayon knitters industries by the convention of the United Textile Workers of America. The convention yesterday had voted for a strike in the cotton textile industry, employing half a million workers. The silk and rayon industries’ delegates left to the discretion of a new Executive Committee of United Textile Workers and to executive committees of their own branches the time that the strikes were to be called. The woollen and worsted and the synthetic rayon workers, however, decided to go out at the same time as the cotton textile employees. The convention had voted to call, at 72 hours’ notice, a cotton textile strike on or before September Ist, in an effort to force increased wages and improved working conditions.