Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-10-29 | Page 6 | "Made in America"

MAE IN 4 4 T I 4 A p 44 I M I V jI i y i j t qt I 44 f MJ I L J JN I 4 r N t. t L I Made in America America Campaign Swee Sweeps f s c 1 Nation v- v i Plan to Swell Wages ves es of American merican Workers I 4 1 N New w York Merchants Launch Exhibition Plan Now Rapidly Being Taken Up by Other Cities Pat Paterson N. N J. J Commerce Body Holds Successful Successful Suc Suc- Successful Show Letters Pour in From All Directions Directions Directions Asking Information Salt Lake Should 4 Boom American Made Goods STARTER OF HOME TRADE BOOM WIRES PUNS PIS TO THE TELEGRAM M r 1 t E Editor The Telegram Salt Lake City Utah D Dear ar Sir Sir Replying Replying to your telegram regarding N New Nw w York Made fade in America movement The campaign now under way in NewYork Ne New York is rapidly assuming the proportions of a nation wide 1 movement The primary object t of this movement i is to promote th the sale of products made and raised in the United States under the slogan Made l in the U. U S. S A. A The best way to bring home the importance of this move to I the housekeeper who buys for tile the home and the con consumer umer who buys for tor himself is by the retail tradesman demanding from his wh wholesaler goods so so made and stamped and by the consumer consumer insisting insisting ins in in- s upon the tradesman selling a like article me LAle greater opportunity to maintain American business on its normal standard li lies s at home in the operation co-operation of manufacturers ers ers tradesmen and consumers in the buying of goods made in this country cc T r. r. r suggest suggests as s is being done in New York that each section of 01 the United States which produces articles that are essentially United States made should either have some form fonn of exhibit in I that section or send samples of the products to such centers as are holding expositions of Made fade in America goods Ve We are urging every manufacturer jobber wholesaler and I tiler to affix some kind of a label to his articles indicating that I they ar are made in the United States of America i Also by indicating to the pu public ic that their goods are arc made in inthe inthe inthe the United States Stales manufacturers may point out that the money goes goes into the pay envelopes of American workmen In Ip fact we favor marking goods made by American labor laborin I in show windows on advertising and on show cards thus bringing I home to the average consumer that with him him lies the success or failure of breaking down clown the foolish belief that Amel American can made goods in many lines are inferior to the foreign brands JOSEPH HARTIGAN Commissioner r of We Weights l anti and Measure rca nrc New York City Cit and anel Leader in the I Made in America Exposition Movel Movement to Inaugurate a a c in I- I New York Oct 29