| Show AS HI B Brin Branch h f Factories 5 Abroad r cl flim Eliminates a es T Tariff Freight Cots Costs Mo Move H. H Hurts Workers Ultimate te meet Effect GoodBy Good GoodBy By RODNEY ODNE DUTCHER V WASHINGTON S lI NEA A NEA-A A Jute plant ant w Was Was' moved recently from a aown town own in Maine to a tolt n India the factory force torce of ot 5 aid y wh t men as as' t thrown out out of t V i k In n favor of J Indian Uan workers workers' rs rs' can e had a day dayAn An AmerIcan AmerIcan Amer- Amer Ican can firm b has 1118 established a liard a-liard- bard bard- w re f factory In G Germany employIng employ employ- Ing ng Germans and turning loose Ant Americans ns as as It abandoned Its Ils original pla plant t. t rhese hese are are Instances of ot a a. trend to to establish American jbranch or or in- in abroad abroad nn an en n en enormously o mou growing gro ot of In- In l stry which h already to I haVe placed about 2000 such plants o on foreign soil so J. J Everybody's d dam damIt doing ln I It Il tand and American workers most o of all aU In C Thu has been studied and and ably described s by bY- M. M Knappen in an fan article In hithe the latest of the the Magazine of ot Wallstreet Wall Wali street who seeks to answer a q ques- ques non lon on of Int Interest rest to manufacturers In estors workers and oth others rs- rs What does docs Jt it port portend md l' l s. s The Tho main reasons reasons for tor establish establish- In ng m American American I n fact factories abroad and arid thus husi In the heart henrt much much nearer the he the exp get Inside tariff transportation eliminating coats oceanic freight ri reduce ucc lab labor laboc c. c costs get cheaper heaper raw aw materials material get j nearer c to o. o the foreign Consumer r and I his Jils g good od vIii and to fa ameliorate d fU- fU I- I c caUs caused d. d dby by patent laws and regulations r of ofT T The profits proUts of of enterprises r to American Investors but o other h r co countries countries' rJ s s- s gain through Iii hi cr workmen work work- men taxes taxes' and the Increase Increase- ase of of- business due to purchases to-purchases s both by bythe the he facto factory y and Its workers On the face faco of it It th their their- lr gains iare lare our our losses Josses The he American Fed Feder r Labor is 15 st l studying the e em on on behalf of ot labor fearing Ja menace menaco to the protection it has ob- ob tl under h n laws laws- may be nullified If tact factories l i-l S are are to toch ch cheap ap foreign l labor bo territory The volume of ot fote tr de de arid and the development d nt of ot Industry at at home are arc bound to to-be to c affected i 1 i ESTABLISH MANY BRANCHES BRANCH ES Nearly avy u all il l the thc gr great at American v no v abroad American Radiator Bell TBell en Telephone Tele- Tele P phone Cie D Du 1 ont Eastman Estman Io Kodak I International Harvester x National 1 Cash Register Cash Register Otis Elevator Radio Corp Corporation l t Stand Standard On Oil and the pa packing automobile a t I 1 ami tire coin- coin iare only a few The tendency of ot American Is to build Its Is Industrial plants plants' cir pr buy c nt l or 01 o outright ht ownership of t f existing plants ts abl abroad ad 1 The liThe total amount of American money in tock stock tock and arid of oC h Euro Euro- European rop ro- ro p n manufacturing manufacturing- S companies Is L and antI Knoppen Knappen sa says says an amount nt al already al- al 1 a ready a y aX by the dJ dire dire-ct c II In ta- ta Ve vestment in American branch or pl a which Is put at over over The total otal American Ameri Anier- J can n Inv Investment In Jn- Jn manu manu- Amor- Amor c mostly Ican can owner for or Controlled c is' is 1100 OO La Latin n Am America fea line has hasan another ther billion of or of American Industrial Industria ni n y and and the rest rest of ot tho About bout qt of American money abroad brod blo d JS is thus In s soni nies sense with with-do- ori o- o ri tlc Inv Investments rits I We Vi J build up H It pointed Is exported Am American Amer lean ican shoe machinery our market mar mar- Icet ket for r In Latin LaUn American Amer Arner- American ican co countries and when Ai American t textile machinery machinery- ry goes goes to to- South Amerl America a. a i and arid Asia to produce textiles textiles tex tex- til tiles s replacing cl eIn f those once once bought bough front from Our r own wn mills Ca Can Canada 1 da has has' from 1 O to 1000 4 American factories factories- bi bit ll t our exports of ot manufactured goods to her mount ra rapidly year year- yearby ear eal by year We Ve lost lost- our u shoe shop trade to Argentina but she buys buya buSm mOre more of ur th oth r words h e. e is no crl crimp Jp Inthe In inthe the general of oC exports II Knappe 8 tf that t there re ari ato general to the tho branci ta fac 1 tory lory ory trend trend- despite frequent t loc locally nyc or Individually disastrous results lie He com compares ares It to the constant constant I f lA i t od of ne i methods methods' in in- inthe the business world con con- eluding It i men and so sonic e col companies 1 it many men ou out Outa b a 01 employment temporarily iJ und and permanently ly It is 18 marked by painful 1 re but c nen but b t it Is Is' f In Inevitable I evitable c evolution C 1 |
