Show perfect illustration of what we have to expect from foreign competition by GLENN GRISWOLD in chicago journal of commerce they tell us that the brick cost but 4 a thousand f 0 b amsterdam and the freight charge across the ocean is another 4 this lays the brick down in now new york at 8 a price less than the actual cost of manufacture in the brickyards brick yards that line the hudson river the american america n receives approximately the same wages for a single days work that is paid to the dutch laborer at the end of a week this is a perfect illustration of what we have to expect by way of foreign competition furthermore more it demonstrates the paucity of thought on the part of those who hold that labor cannot be deflated if present conditions continue brick labor in this country will deflate itself the same is true of other labor that violates fundamental economic laws in the toll it takes of industry there is another and even more important lesson to be learned it costs as much to move this brick a few miles along the hudson river asit as it does to bri bring bridgit ngit it across the atlantic again we prove to ourselves that the great waste of industry is not in the production of tile the stuff we use but butin in its distribution |