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Show OO (U RUSSIAN TRADE TO t BE ENCOURAGED I J 0 Chicago, Aug. 31. Plans for the es- ' tablishment of direct trade with Rus- jj sia by means of a big American co- , operative sales company were under '. ffli consideration today by fifty leading j ' American manufacturers with plants located in widely separated parts of ; H the country. ju, The plans are the result of a meet- 1 1' Ing held here yesterday. Among the J ill representative men who urged that ' Ijl i manufacturers of the United States ) jl ' accept the Russian invitation to start fill J selling goods in -Russia now while 3 U sentiment i3 friendly to this country M and virtually no1 competition exists ;j?l were Dr. W. C. Huntington of the federal department of commerce; Pro- ,J fessor S. N. Harper, head of the Rus- faj sian department of the University of jl Chicago; S. A. Glushanock, commer- 91' cial agent of the Moscow. VIndava JH and WIndau railroad of Russia, and Kja several Chicago bankers. I Jffl Tho manufacturers have taken to fijj their boards of directors a plan for ,J the formation of an Illinois corpora- li tion to be known as the International i Manufacturers' Sales company of W j America in which they themselves ij will own all the stock and which will 1i j have main offices in Chicago and 1j Moscow. fji |