Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1933, Page 16

A—16 DRESS COPYISTS FACENEW ATTACK French Designers and U. S. and European Buyers to Hold Conference. e PARIS (#).—A new onslaught against dress copyists has been launched by the Pais (association for the protection of artistic and seasonal industries) with arrangements for an international con- ference here among leading French de- signers and American and European buyers to draft plans for the preven- tion of illegal copying of Paris models. ‘The exact date of the conference has not yet been fixed, although it is ten- tatively scheduled for February. Armand Trouyet, president of the Pais, in announcing plans for the con- ference, says the Association of French Designers and Modistes has requested organizations of retailers and _dress manufacturers in the United States, South _America, England, Germany, | Italy, Switzerland and Belgium to par- ticipate in such a conference in the near future. Delegates to Confer. Delegates from the American and European organizations will confer sep- arately with the Pais during the com- ing Spring fashion shows on means of tightening the lines of protection around Paris models. Their suggestions | will be studied by the organization of | French designers and the conference will be called immediately afterward to establish concerted action In preparation for the international meeting Trouyet expects to confer with Adam Gimbel of New York, president of the Fashion Originators’ Guild of America, who will be here during the Spring fashion shows. ‘The coming conference marks the second major step in the anti-copyist drive l2unched by the Association for the Protection of Artistic and Seasonal Industries since its formation a year 2go. The first measures were embodied in the formation of regulations, strictly curtailing the activities of buyers, com- missionarics and fashion writers, which were put into effect in January, 1932. A Deposit Against Orders. The regulations, still in effect, ex- clude from the fashion collections any buyer who saw the previous collection and did not buy, unless he pays $100 entrance fee, which is to be considered rticle is one of a series lowing ! shomias oyt adusisial, Conditions - n Amegican work- foreign countries affect men. Merwin H. Browne, the writer, is a member of the Washington Bureau of the Buffalo Evening News. BY MERWIN H. BROWNE. “Water is filling the mines, the tim- bers are becoming rotten, the ground i8 swelling, and there is nothing to greet us now except the rumblings of falling underground workings, standing as a monument to the failure of the Gov- ernment to grant relief from the Rus- sian ores.” This is the desolate picture of many manganese mines throughout the United States, painted by leaders of the Amer- ican manganese industry for Treasury Department officlals. According to the American producers, mines in 34 States have been shut down and several thousand men thrown out of work, be- cause of the importation into this coun- try, over the American tariff wall, of Soviet and other foreign manganese at depreciated currency prices. The American producers say that if the domestic market were reserved for this infant industry, at least 15,000 men could be put to work in the manganese and related industries. There is another angle to the prob: lem. The American manganese in- | dustry was born during the World War, | when producers of steel for armaments were prevented from obtaining foreign manganese for their product. Under | the War Department’s national defense plan, domestic production of manganese would be an absolute necessity, and | War Department officials have stated | that one of the safest methods from the | standpoint of production in war-time is the development of the domestic in- dustry to the point where it would offer | a satisfactory nucleus for expansion to meet the increased needs that might | arise as a result of military activity. Appraisal® Are Halted. i ‘To determine the extent the now crippled manganese industry has been | harmed by imports from Soviet Russia, the Treasury Department is conducting 1an investigation, and is receiving re- | ports from agents abroad to determine | whether or not there is actual dumping into the American market. Pending e g THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, -D. C., TUESDAY, JANUARY 24 1933. RUIN OF MANGANESE INDUSTRY BLAMED ON SOVIET DUMPING Imported or Sold at Depreciated Cur- rency Prices Keeps Domestic Product From Market. entering their ports from Russia, Brazil, British India and the Gold Coast of Africa. This has the effect of tempo- rarily withholding the foreign man- ganese from the American market. The American Manganese Producers’ Association has this to say concerning the situation: “The dumping of Soviet ores has dustry. In the midst of the present period of depression, in the midst of the present period of unemployment, we come, knocking at the doors of our Government the doors of the steel industry for a market for our product. “Give the manganese industry pi tection against Soviet Russia, and a proper market for its ores, and as fast as contracts can be arranged many thousands- of men will be put to work within the manganese industry in widely distributed areas throughout the United tes. With a production of 1,200,000 tons a year of low-grade manganese ore, and 400,000 to 800,000 tons of high-grade ore, it would mean a revenue in freight to the railroads alone of from $6,000,000 to $10,000,000 year.” Below Production Cost. Sworn _testimony given Treasury Department officials by domestic man- ganese industry leaders is to the effect that Soviet manganese is selling at Pittsburgh, duty pald, in the neighbor- hood of $21.72 a ton, compared with the American cost of production of $30 Yo $35 a ton for similar ore. The Soviet | price includes approximately $8 a ton | for the manganese ore, $11.20 a ton | duty and $2.52 a ton freight to the | great Pittsburgh steel producing area. Normally, the total consumption of | manganese by the American steel in- dustry is about 800,000 tons a year. In 1931, 502,000 tons of the foreign ore were imported for American mills. Since the depression began, the Ameri- can consumption had dropped to about 200,000 tons a year, but even during the first eight months of 1932, approx- imately 100,000 tons were imported. The American rnlnqanece industry has never met the total consumption of American steel mills. Encours paralyzed the American manganese in- ; At that time, imports that case we would have had a market for the manganese ores and these - plants would have been com- m, which not umx:ehmld have more employmen! mining of the manganese ore, but would have meant more it in construc- road -building, the use of more material, and in transportation to thé raflroads, “No one who has studied the situss tion will deny bt what the Am‘:g -emmu-hum; ted States can ‘Today, there.are many Manganese mines in the United States, which have E:redlmervewnm equal in metal- imports ‘w] ey It has -been -offered to the -American market for as low as $10 a ton in small quantities, but there have ‘been no buyers. Representatives of the domes- tic industry, declare that the foreign dumping, at depreciated currency prices below 430 a ton American cost of production, has permitted the -storage 'cent of the total American of many months’ supply here. thus elinjinating the need for even the re- ore. 1 per cent of the American cemand. In 1929, a peak year, when total im- ports reached 664,269 tons, imports from Russia totaled 329,336 tons. In 1931, the total importation from Russia amounted to 195,834 tons, or 38.9 per demand. During the first eight months of 1932, Russia supplied 55,437 tons; Brazil, 2 633 tons; the gold coast, 10,044 tons British India, 1,750 tons; British Al- bania, 6,016 tons, and the United King- dom, 6,014 tons. (Copyright, 193: lorth American Newse (CopyriRht. Jloer Alliance, Tnc.) DRIVES ACROSS COUNTRY WITHOUT LICENSE TAGS Man Reaches “Crossroads World” Before Encounter- ing Any Trouble. By the Associated Press. 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