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Show American Potters Refuse To Teach Japs "Know How" Asked by the U. S. State Dept. to be good enough to teach the Japanese how to make dinner-ware dinner-ware better and faster, American pottery manufacturers have replied re-plied "NO!," with trimmings. The Washington officials addressed ad-dressed their request to a man who's been dead for 35 years but it eventually got to the labor committee chairman, Joseph M. Wells, of the U. S. Potters Assn., who replied: "The request that American potters assist in promoting the production of Japanese pottery is the most b.razen example I have yet encountered of the State Department's De-partment's consuming desire to spend our people's tax money to take their jobs away." The Question "Why does our Govenment spend our money to make jobs for the members of this., despicable despic-able race, which will mean that our men who fought and suffered suffer-ed to defeat them will be walking walk-ing the streets jobless?" Before the war, the Japs were shipping more than 80 of all china dinnerwarc used in the U. S. at less than one-half the American Am-erican cost of production while England furnished about 15 with only 3 of the balance being be-ing produced in American factories. fac-tories. ....Today, American potteries are so swamped with orders that they won't be caught up for about a year and they propose to stay busy! |