Show FOREIGN TRADE REVIVAL URGED NEW V YORK June 11 UP UP- UP Seventy five executives of cities and shipping concerns united today in ina a plea pica for restoration of ot Americas America's foreign trade as a means of oC ending unemployment and business depres depres- sion Speakers from Massachusetts New York and Texas emphasized a n need of oC pulling down trade barriers barriers barriers bar bar- and increasing both exports and Imports A majority urged support support support sup sup- port for Secretary of State Slate Cordell Hulls Hull's program for stimulating business business business busi busi- ness with foreign countries Cleveland Rodgers editor of ot the Brooklyn Eagle said that unless foreign trade is revived millions of or people now in seaport cities will have to be moved into the interior New York cannot go on much longer supporting a million people on relief he said and we wc cannot find or mal make e work for tor the idle until our chief activity shipping is re revived revived revived re- re Rodgers said it was clear that a l large part of or our unemployment is due to the falling off in foreign trade We Ve have 14 11 or 15 5 millions of oC people normally employed in foreign foreign foreign for for- eign trade or related activities he said These activities have been reduced considerably more than half hair Some of or them notably farmers farmers farmers farm farm- ers who are receiving bene benefits its from processing taxes are arc not entirely without income but millions of persons persons persons per per- sons with their dependents have lost their jobs or have had their income greatly reduced Revival of foreign trade in my opinion offers the most promising solution to our greatest national problem Rodgers scoffed at the theory that the United States can be self con Speakers ers at the morning mornin session included J. J Russell Waite Vaile representing representing representing the Houston Texas chamber chamber cham chain ber her of oC commerce and Robert L L. OBrien O'Brien of oC Massachusetts chairman of the U. U S. S tariff commission |