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FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1938 THE SOUTH AMBOY CITIZEN PAGE
THE SOUTH AMBOY CITIZEN
FRIDAY, JANUARY 7, 1938
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VOL. 56. NO. 49
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J. MELFORD ROLL,' EDITOR
• BUY AMERICAN
It is somewhat disheartening to read every day in the papers
jpf the United Automobile Workers denouncing the automobile
•companies because of the recent lay-off of so many men and the
equally strong blame of the company officials placed upon labor
for their sit-down strikes and their throttling, of business. It is
disheartening because we don't think either of their ideas are
right.
We read in Sunday's papers that fully forty per cent of the
money spent in the United States for Christmas shopping was
7>aid for foreign n\ade articles, produced much cheaper than
American manufacturers can produce them: They are - manufactured
at far lower wages and way below the standards of
American labor requirements. They are available because trade
treaties permit 25 per cent of all imported goods to come in without
tariff restrictions to protect American labor:
There were thousands of Swiss watches, toys from Japan,
Germany and Czechoslovakia, cotton gloves from Czchoslovakia,
sold in America .at prices with which American manufacturers
could not begin to compete, totaling 80 per cent of the total gloves
sold. Japanese silk goods and toys far undersold American
brands. Japanese rubber goods undersold standard American
brands fro mtwenty to fifty per cent. Foreign shoes, carpets and
rugs, glassware and pottery, laces and almost everything else
were bought at prices far under the American standard, in spite
of freight rates and ( tariffs where tariffs existed.
American pottery manufacturers saw bitter cheap labor
competition from Japan and Czechoslovakia cut an average of 18
million dollar market down 45 per cent, with 5,000 of the normal
25,000 American workers in that field out of work, and only 12,-
000 of the remaining 20,000 working as much as half time.
In Great Britain they have a national toy-word. It is: "Buy
British," and they live up to it. An Englishman won't buy any
article made in any other country if he can buy it British made.
In this country the American laboring man is probably the
worst offender. He will take his five dollars or more a day and
go out and buy a lot of Japanese light bulbs, rubber goods, toys
for his kids and other foreign made goods produced by laborers
held down to wages of fifty cents a day, just because he can get
them a few cents cheaper. He doesn't stop to realize that in doing
just what he is, he, together with thousands of his fellow workers,
are cutting their own jobs down to four or less days a week.
We do not claim to to be any too bi'illiant at solving national
troubles but an ordinary person with any horse sense at all ought
to be able to realize that capital and labor ought to. quit calling,
names and get together to keep the American wheels turning by
remembering and living up to the first requisite of good business:
"Buy American."
An Acre of Oirty Dishes
In 12 months the average woman
washes an acre of dirty dishes, 3
miles of dollies, 1 mile of glass
and 5 miles of floors, declared a
home ^service director of a gas association
in London.
Trees That Shed Their Needles
Coniferous trees shed their oldest
needles annually. These turn
brown or yellow in the autumn and
fall ofT. Usually they are two or
three years old, and are farthest
from the tips of the branches.
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