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Show NO FUN TO SELL GOODS AT COST MILWAUKEE Wis.. vb. 16 De- daring there was 1 no fun In selling goods at cost. " K. .1 Harvey, president presi-dent of the Harvey Sprlm; A (forging company of Racine, Wisconsin, explained ex-plained to the fedeial trade commission commis-sion Thursday why His automobile Spring salesmen stayed at home ivtli-er ivtli-er than venture Into foreign territory' In competition with eastern factories. SPRINGS FOR AUTOS. Mr. Harvey testified before tbe commission's com-mission's hearing into the Pittsburg plus practice of adding the freight rate from Pittsburg to a Pittsburg base price when steel is shipped from Chicago steel mills, where the Haney company buys 84 per cent of its steel. The company's output of automobile springs wan sold entlrelj to two automobile au-tomobile manufacturers in Racine, Wis., and one In Kenosha. 10 miles distant, tho witness said. On direct examination of A. W. Riirr. attorney for the commission, Mr. Harv.-y testified that his factory bought steel on J'ittsburg plus, shipped ship-ped from the Chicago district, and was able to sell Springs to Racine automobile automo-bile factories profitably. Competitors In Cleveland, Flint and Detroit, Mich. Chicago and Jackson. Miss , could undersell un-dersell him at other points, ho asserted. as-serted. sii IRPIj) (i ESI IONED. Mr. Harvey admitted under cross-examinatlon cross-examinatlon of W. W. Corlett, counsel for the United Suites Steel corporation, corpora-tion, against whom tho complaint Is directed, that he had never made an active bid for outside business. Mr. Corlett attempted to show that the witness was unwilling to cut his price or to meet other competitive conditions, condi-tions, which the witness had said, were prohibitive, due to Pittsburg plus Mr. Harvey declared he had lost several orders because of his disadvantage disad-vantage in transportation costs, due to paying the Pittsbur rate on raw steel. His competitors, he said, obtained lower transportation costs because of being nearer Pittsburg. Effects of Pittsburg plus on the Sterling Wheel Barrow company of Milwaukee were told by Irving Smith, president of the company. His company consumes 2.000 tons of steel annually, ho Said, 30 per cent of which is purchased in the Chicago steel mill district, under the Pittsburg plus system. oo |