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Show some of them fraudulent, in trying to I get around the tariff and to dump ; foreign goods into the American I market. German-made shears can be bought in America cheaper than in Germany and the report further states that the coke and coal dealers deal-ers along the Atlantic coast are suffering suf-fering because of the import of European Eu-ropean coal and foreign fuel oil. Pottery Pot-tery plants are idle, too, because of j foreign competition. In part, the report re-port says: "Recent growth of the importation of foreign fuels has had the effect of demoralizing the domestic bituminous coal market, causing operators to lower prices to a point where the industry in-dustry is receiving inadequate returns to provide protection to labor andj capital. Three million people are directly dependent upon the industry. Transportation systems of this country coun-try are being seriously affected by the decline in coal shipments. Coal constitutes the largest single item of -railroad traffic and produces i the greatest amount of shipping revenue. The effect of the decline of bituminous bitumin-ous coal shipments because of foreign for-eign importations is evidenced by the amount of coal handling equipment not being used and the large number of railroad men idle. This situation creates a social disruption and the necessity for protection against future fu-ture decline in both employment and demand. "Foreign fuel oil displaced $17,000,-000 $17,000,-000 tons of bituminous coal in this section in a year. From this sale of imported oil equivalent to 250,000 tons of bituminous coal in 1924, the annual imports have increased to more than sixty-eight times that quantity. The most serious effect of this displacement of coal by oil is upon labor, especially in the bitum-:ncus bitum-:ncus mining industry and in railroad rail-road transportatoin. The loss to coal operators by the importation of foreign for-eign oil amounts to $28,900,000 a year. The loss to railroad labor is even more serious. "In the last year approximately 700,000 tons of foreign anthracite coal has been dumped into North Atlantic At-lantic ports. This coal comes from Russia, Germany and England. In addition, these countries have recently recent-ly entered about 100,000 tons of coke and briquettes. For every ton of coke imported, one and one half tons of American bituminous coal is displaced. displac-ed. The drop in the English exchange, due to eliminating the gold standard, :s largely responsible for this situ- Isn't it about time we begin to look facts in the face ? The free trade argument ar-gument that our tariff has helped cause the depression has been worn threadbare in its silliness. The fact is that in many instances the tariff is not effective in its purpose of equalizing the difference of labor costs at home and abroad. When these differences are equalized we will have an all-around revival of American industry in-dustry and not before. ation. Remedial and emergency legislation legis-lation should be enacted which should be in the form of a higher import duty on foreign fuel oil, coal, coke, and briquettes. From the figures quoted it is obvious that the earnings of the coal-carrying roads, already seriously cut, will be further reduced. re-duced. "Loss of coal tonnage has deprived thousands of railroad and mining employes em-ployes of work and has seriously affected af-fected other industries. This condition has contributed greatly to unemployment unemploy-ment and depression in the United States and no compensation has been accorded domestic industry. Newark labor has also been victim of this situation." Newark is a typical eastern American Am-erican manufacturing city, and what is true of that enterprising community commun-ity is true of others of the same kind. I EUROPEAN DUMPING. Free traders who declare, in the face of world-wide statistics that the Smoot-Hawley tariff law is throttling our foreign trade because Europe can no longer sell goods in America, wculd do well to read the lengthy report re-port of the Newark, New Jersey, chamber of commerce recently made public. This report declares in no uncertain un-certain terms that "dumping of foreign for-eign goods into the Newark markat is seriously affecting the city's industry in-dustry and increasing unemployment." unemploy-ment." Importers use all sorts of schemes, |