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Show KODAK CUTS A wage reduction approximating 20 per cent, is announced by the Eastman Kodak Company. Comnetition from $Firopean camera 'and mote on picture Kilm manufacturers is given as a reason for the depression in business and the wage cuts. What is taking place in the plants of the kodak company, is just an indication of what will happen in practically practi-cally every American industry' unless some way is provided to meet the influx of European products turned out bv cheap foreign labor. Cut will succeed cut in wage schedules until the level of American Am-erican normalcy is not only reached out passed in a steady dr.op to the standards of living to which the poor workers of Germany and the rest of Europe are accustomed. ac-customed. The remedy lies in the prompt passage of an effective protective tariff law, with rates sufficiently high to offset off-set the difference in cost of production at home and abroad. In no other way can industrial disaster be prevented. bi fei hi |