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Show FORDHEY FI1S mm reds Also Proposes Tariff to Aid War-born American Industries. ABERDEEN, Wash., March 29. A high protective tariff bill, which will extend aid to every "infant industry" established in the United States during dur-ing the war and designed to supply the nation witli goods formerly bought in Germany, will be introduced into the next congress, according to a statement state-ment made today by Representative J. W. Fordney of Michigan, chairman of the wa3'S and means committee of the next house. Mr. Kordnoy declared a protective tariff essential to American labor, and he said he was willing to help "hang" every anarchist, revolutionist and near-revolutionist near-revolutionist in the country. He declared de-clared that the Hog Island shipyard work would be investigated and that he had data to prove that one corporation corpora-tion attached to the yard made a profit of eleven million dollar's last year on a capital of $2000; that messenger boys were paid $45 a week for the delivery on the average of three messages a day and that teamsters received $48 a week, when "there was not a horse on the job. " This, he said, was what occurred on contracts let on a cost plus basis. |