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Show WOOL INDUSTRY NEEDS TARIFF PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 10 iV.V.) The $15 suit of clothes will save the American wool industry if American wool, instead of foreign wool, goes into the-, suits the National Na-tional Wool Growers association was told at its convention here. Speakers added that there is but one way to insure the use of Amer- ! ican wool in cheap suits the tariff. f L. U. Edgehill, chief of the sales department of the National Wool Marketing corporation, told about I the "quiet period that has come into the wool market since Maine went Democratic." He said he hadn't given up hope, however, even after the national Democratic landslide, I Franklin W. Hobbs, Boston, president of the National Association Associa-tion of Wool Manufacturers, asserted assert-ed the need for full tariff protection protec-tion against foreign raw wool and j woolen goods. ; "There must be compensatory ' tariffs on manufactured woolend from abroad if the wool producers i of this country are to have a market mar-ket for their products," Hobbs said. "There is but one market for American wool, and that is the American woolen mill.' ' Election of officers and committee commit-tee reports were on the program for this afternoon. |