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Show SOMEFACTSABOUT WOOL CLOTHING CHICAGO, June 25. Half a billion bil-lion pounds or shoddy vrero thrown on the American clothing market in 1919, whllo a billion pounds of unmanufactured, un-manufactured, virgin wool were accumulating ac-cumulating In tho storehouses. Shoddy Shod-dy Js ,tnade of woolen rags, c-spun perhaps ns often as eight times. It is jUsually woven with a small percentage per-centage or virgin wool to stick tho broken fibres together. Of tho 620,-000,000 620,-000,000 yards of "all wool" clotn produeo by tho nation's mills, the amount of shoddy used would nars produced 380,000,000 yards, if straight shoddy cloth had boon turn cd out,' Mixed with a llttlo now wool It entered into the composition of n vasly greater yardage "In tho sami poriod, tho amount ot new wool used would havo produced 240,000,000 yarda of virgin wool cloth, if it had not been adulterated with shooddy. Theso-statlfitlcs were made publU by tho National Sheep and Wool bureau bur-eau ot America, No. 29 South La Sallo street, wnlch is organizing the sheep, rami and business Interests of tho country behind tho French Capper Cap-per Truth in Fabric bill. This bill was left ,(n tho hands ot tho Interstate Inter-state commerce committees of both houses of congress at adjournment. It is designed to compel manufacturers manufac-turers to stamp their cloth with tLn percenptage of virgin wool and of shoddy It contains. Howard K Qroono, secretary of tho bureau said "Last year as never beforo tho Bhoddy interests succeeded In tolstlag their goodB on tho public. Only 800 000,000 pounda of wool in its nat ural state, or 300,000,000 pounda of cleaned wool, wero converted Into doth. Most or this amount wan mixed with shoddy to mako it stick together. It the entire 300,000,000 pounds had been made Into pure virgin vir-gin wool cloth, It would hare provided provid-ed only 240,000,000 yards, as against the 380,000,000 yards ,ot shoddy goods. "It would have taken 1,560,000.. 000 pounds of virgin wool to hov-j made the entlro 620,000,000 yards of 'all wool' cloth turned out by our mills. Dut tho entlro amount need not havo been made of virgin wool. There should hare been virgin wot-1 cloth for those who could afford It nnd. shoddy tor thinner purses. That would havo prorldod for fair competition com-petition between virgin woot cloth and shoddy and for a fair range o' prices. Instead, through tho lack ot stamping, shoddies wero Bold as 'n'.l wool' and tho public, accepting VI wool' to mean virgin wool, was denied de-nied tho right ot cholco and tho ben , ent or a range of prices. "Today tho stores aro filled with shoddy clothing and a billion pound i of virgin wool rill tho storehouses Tho shoddy Interests havo become a? thoroughly Intrenched through the right of their product to masquerade as now wool under tho popular term all wool that they hare been abto to create In tholr own Intercut an artificial over supply of virgin wool "In eplto'of this billion pounds Id the storehouses tho world produce a third lea's wool, annually than It needs and tho demand for new wool la as great as ever. Tho shoddy manufacturers man-ufacturers havo"slmply thrown thorn-selves thorn-selves botweea the public with ltd demand for virgin wool and th sheep mon with their supply. "As a roeult tho wool growers u,m being torcod into Insolvency. To sav those ot tho west from ruin, the fed-oral fed-oral reserve board has a.uthorUod thn flan Francisco Federal Keserre bank to ndranco money to holp them carry their unsold dips. Dut this aid affords af-fords only temporary rollof. Thj farmers and snoop men must bar' permanent, relief from ths unfair competition of ths rag pickers. "That billion of pounds of unmanufactured unman-ufactured virgin wool in tho store-bouses, store-bouses, kept from the public that tnt wants and ne4s it by tho legal right ot manufacturers to use.unidoa titled shoddy In their 'all wool' cloth, threatens tho annihilation of tho sheep nnd woot Industry, It Is to the Interest of every rotor'to get behind the French Capper Truth in Fabric bill and see that It Is enacted into law at tho next sosslon ot congress. con-gress. Between enlightened publls opinion and thg Truthln" Fabric law tho wool growers may bo'ablo to rj-c'ovcr rj-c'ovcr somo of this spring's jlosecs at noxj spring's clip. v ' . ' - ' ' A Whllo loanlnBvtho sheep men mo'ijf oy to wltbHtand tho rag pl'ckors coti-, coti-, petition, tho United States government govern-ment la doing moro than any otbrr single agency to swell the rag pickers pick-ers Income. In tho"' supplement; ta Commerce Roports, Issued Aprll2P. thp Bur.ea.uof Foreign and Domestic Commorce of tho Department of Com merco, reports under the captloii,- Army Oarmenta Salvaged: i "The number of garments recclretl at Dcwsbury (Qrcat Britain) each week la about 200,000 and the estimated esti-mated total since tho depot was established es-tablished 1b no leas than 150,000,000 wolghlng about 44,000 tons. ThOM thatare too dilapidated for further Wear aro classified, blonded and sold as woplcn, rags to shoddy and cloth manufacturers to bo pulled Into ftbrj and remade into doth, principally v for tho civilian trado." |