Show HIGHER W WOOLEN l I TARIFF URGED WASHINGTON Feb 7 CAP CAP- AP- AP Declaring conditions ii in the wool manufacturing industry are sImilar to those thole in the cotton textile business busi busi- ness Nathaniel Stevens vice president president dent of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers today advocated advocated additional tariff protection for high grade woolen yarns and fab rica Mr fr Stevens toM told tha house ways was wasand and means on tion or of hearings on wool rates that based on the tho present raw wool duty low grade glado woolen manufactured products have hao sufficient nt protection but that some or of the finer yarns and fabrics fabrics needed slightlY tI higher duties dutle because ot of the tho large labor costs 4 A considerable or of tho looms O of the indUstry in- in he said have havo suffered rom Importations or of mixed goods The Tho only rate rato the s sugi sug- sug i w was s an Increase to 10 per percent cent in the differential between woolen fabrics und and finished gar gar- ments Stevens said that since the Payne Pane law the tho hourly wase vage In the tho Industry had advanced than OO percent and arni working hours had decreased approximately 20 O Oper per cent Tile The manufacturers he added were In harmony with the wool growers that there be a differential between hIgher and low grade grado raw wool Wooi both or of which now COllIe In at 31 cents a Pound on clean cican content but It if tho rates rateR are aro raised on the i higher grade ad additional I tory duties dutil's would be required by manufacturers S On examination cross said tile the manufacturers were oper- oper only at 60 to 64 04 per cent centS capacity due to inan many causes Among Amon those these he enumerated the tho manufacture or of or of sill silk which was sas displacing Ills Ills- placing somo wool and cotton Increased ill In- creased popularity or of silk for women's wo- wo mens men's wear vear and better quality cloth cloth- Ing l tile the life or of suits and dresses S 5 |