Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-01-11 | Page 2 | Lively Meeting of Boot and Shoe Men

LILY MEETING OF BOOT MD5H0E President Hunan Hauled Over Coals; Protection of Industry Indus-try Demanded. By International News Service. NEW YORK. Jan. 10. Tim National Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' association, associa-tion, in a stormy opening srsslon of Its annual convention at tlio I loud Astor lodny. determined to light fo'r a higher larlrt on kIioo, declined to come to the rppcuo of tho l"n I ted Shon Machinery company, Ihu machinery trust that tho govern men t Is now trying to dissolve!, and hauled Its president. John II. Ilnnan. over the coals for having attempted to Involve tho association Into an expression favoring favor-ing fho combination. The I'nitcd Shoe Machinery company has a monopoly of the shoe manufacturing manufactur-ing machinery of the country nnd President Presi-dent Ilnnan. who is also a director In the. trust, had pot only written a circular letter, but had prepared bin speech to the convention. In which he gave expression expres-sion to his sympathy for the combination. combina-tion. The executive committee col wind of tho campaign and made Mr. Hanon cut out all reference lo the trust In his speech, threatening to have him, defeated for re-election and made him apologize to tho executive committee and the convention con-vention itself for his Indiscretions. After the convention had taken this fall out of Mr. llanan they turned around and elected him president for the ninth time. The resolutions adopted declared that the wages of American worklngmen employed em-ployed In the shoe factories are likely to be reduced because of foreign competition. competi-tion. The summing up was: "Resolved, by tho National Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' association that the 10 and In per cent duty on shoes be not reduced, but given such additional protection pro-tection as Is found to be needed upon Investigation In-vestigation by the tariff board or some similar body." Congress and the president are to be memorialized to save the Industry, prevent pre-vent the Importation of foreign made shoes and thus save the wage earner.