Show Conc concerning eming sewing machines the new york herald prints an article on the extortions extort ions to which poor sewing women are subjected at the hands of sewing machine agents it is alae alac a fact tretty pretty gener ally known that t the profits on thebo thebe machines which are now to be found in almost every household are sometimes enormous at the present time 65 is charged for a piece of mechanism which costs less than 15 there is a firm on broadway new york which deals in sewing machine needles attachments parts and findings generally they publish a price list of the different pieces that enter eater into a machine and from that paper it is shown that a complete set of castings for the most popular machine in the market and which sells for 65 can be bought perfectly finished ready to put together for the sum of 1150 it is also alleged that the sewing machine companies in the united states ex port their machines to england where they sell them for less than one half the price charged here thus discriminating against their own countrymen fon for instance a s so 6 called combination machine which costs here SO 80 is sold ifeng land for zo or about 32 the howe lock stitch which here hells sells ongo or 60 can there be obtained for 22 Bi Si family machine which here costs 60 is sold on the other side for 32 it is suggested that this system of extortion works injury not only to purchasers but to the machino machine companies who are running within one half pc pf their capacity while their goods are ly y ing unsold in warehouses and their profits have vanished into thin air simply because under the present system it costs more to sell a ma chine than tham it does to make it itis it is asserted that fully fifty per cent of the retail price of the article is spent in finding a market for it it is about time the manufacturers came down to hard pan and redu eed ced their prices the market is already overstocked over stocked and sooner or later they must be forced either to reduce prices or shut up shop washington goon glon star |