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Show WELSH TINPLATE TRADE BOOMING SWANSEA, Wales, Sept. 26.- The I Welsh tinplate trade, which the lato Mr. Joseph Chamberlain once described describ-ed as a "decaying" industry, and which received a severe setback by tho Mc-Klnley Mc-Klnley tariff In 1S91, Is enjoying nj prosperity which only the necessary war restrictions aro curtailing. Prices have more than trebled during the) wnr despite tho shortngo of labor nnd restriction of supplies of steel bars,' and practically every Arm Is paying or. will pay excess profits. Before the war the basic price of tinplates was twelve shillings and six' pence per box, now as much as fifty shillings Is being obtained for "unro-l strlctcd plates, but these rates will! cease with the Introduction of the government gov-ernment price of thirty shillings. oo 1 |