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Show It would appear that the Canadians Ca-nadians are developing another new market in the United States. And ridiculous as It appears at first blush, that new export item Is baked bread. . So far. the influx of cheaper priced Canadian Cana-dian bread is confined to Detroit De-troit and the adjacent areas. But thej figures on the' growth of this business are impressive. At the present time, the im- Here is a nation with a high standard of living that due to American labor and farm policies poli-cies can whip a segment of U. S. business to death. Probably in a recent meeting of the Senate Small Business Committee Sen. Russell Long stated the problem in a nutshell saying "What we have to watch out for is the foreign producer who is paying 15 or twenty cents per hour for labor and who has f equipment as good as ours; even buys our raw material and brings it back in here far below our production cost." He continued by saying, "The average American tariff on goods coming in here is about 10 and that is only on things that carry a tariff. Now If you are paying a wage that is about four times as high as the other fellow, that 10 tariff is no hill for a. stepper at all, he can just leap over it. I think it is factors like that where you really have a I right to demand protection, rather rath-er than let some competitor get a big advantage over you and continue to whip you." This is an interesting comment com-ment for a responsible member of Congress made in Washington Washing-ton D. C. where lo these many years, the do-gooders, the socialistic so-cialistic planners, and the rest of that scream ing-raeemie tribe have been pushing to even further fur-ther abolish the protective U. S. tariff system on the basis that this will cause everybody throughout the world to love each other as brothers. -The experience so far with U. S. tariff cutting has proved one thing about love. Given half a chance, the foreign for-eign employer of cheap labor loves to undersell American business busi-ness in America. In the meantime, mean-time, American unemployment figures hold at a high' rate. 1 r m i ported bread is c. W. Harder running around 7 million pounds. On the basis of an average American family consumption of bread annually of somewhere around 440 pounds, this represents repre-sents a supply for only some 16,-000 16,-000 families, which is not too impressive im-pressive in the bread business. But on the other hand, this business has increased 1&90 in ten years, is still growing. The reasons for this silly phenomena phe-nomena are quite plain. For one thing, the U. S. price support policies' on wheat keeps the prices of this staple up about 30 higher in this country than across the border. In addition, whereas Detroit bakers must pay $2.05 per hour for unskilled workers, work-ers, rate in Canada is $1.50. Canadian bread was thus selling sell-ing in Detroit for 17 cents for a pound and a quarter loaf versus 24 cents for the American prod-, net. This has precipitated a price war which has bronght the American product down to around 19 cents, but Canadian bread has by the same token dropped down to a dune or less. Here is an example not predicated predi-cated on Oriental coolie labor. Nttlontl r4rtlon of Indtpwident Bulnw |
