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Show SECOND LAP ONJARIFF Earths, Earthenware and Glass Trust Opposes Changes in Rates Washington. Jan 8. Democratic Leader Underwood indicated today that the house ways and means com mittee would stand for retaining the tariff of f5 and 60 per cent on pottery. He announced that testimony had satisfied sat-isfied the committee of highly com petitive conditions of the industry in Europe. illiam Burgess of Trenton, N 3 . dlsi ussiug the pottery industry before the committee, said the average pro fit. because of a principal labor cost, was less than t per cent He insist ed that there was no combination In the industry and that pottery peculiar Ij needed protection He testified thai labor in American pottery plants COSl 246 per cent more than in Aus tria Washington lan 8 -The second lap of the tariff hearings before the house ways and means committee was reached this morning when the committee com-mittee took up schedule B earths, eai then ware and glass. There Is no Democratic bill serving as a basis for this schedule, as In the ease of th chemical schedule, and the arguments today were aimed dl-rectly dl-rectly at any change's in the present earthen and glassware schedule of the Payne-Aldrlcb law The schedule re- i opened allegations of a so-called glass tiu-U It has been represented to the fommitlee thai the merlran produ - ' tion of plate glass is about 50,000,000 ! scpiare feet annually, produced b only 12 manufacturers. Advocates of tariff reduction contend con-tend the duties could be cut one-half without injuring the American manu- i faeturer |