New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 7, 1918, Page 5

JOD a succ ,1bs. PIG IRON INDUSTRY 1S AT STANDSTILL And With 1t Ts Entailed a Tie-up of $100,500,000 New..York, suspension of the impor tic into the United S Andustry turning out at time over $100,000,000 products. All of the tin manufacture of the $100,000,000 worth of tin plate now produced in the United States imported, more than 90 ver cent. it originating in Ahe Orient, and the partial s pension shir that part of the world, United State ent upon i bor, Bolivia, 20 per cent of practically the of tin outside While we of the lar June 7.—The practical ation affec . the prescent worth of used is of with rents from recently announced, becomes more depend- outh American neigh- which produces a-out the world's tin only world the Orient. consume about one-h and increasin essful mining industry in the United States have thus far proved unsuccessful. Small quanti- ties have been found in Alaska and smaller quant in other parts of the United '’ Stat but not largs enough to supply even one per cent. of the large and steeadily increasing quantity required by our tin plate and other industries. The guantity of tin imported into the United States has grown from 70 million 1bs. in 1900 to approximately 150 million in 1917." The value of the 1900 importation was 19 million dollars, and that of 1917 68 million dollar: the price per pound having greatly advanced during the v question. A compilation. hy tional City Bank of New shows that the sums of mon Jout of the United States for t1e pur- chase of tin since the beginning of the tin plate industry in 1893, having aggregated approximately 700 million dollars. About 90 per cent. of the tin imported is used in the manufac- ture of tin plate. During this period the quantity of tin plate produced in this country has grown from 42 million 1bs. in 1892 to “1 billion Ibs. in 1903, 2 billion 1lbs. in 19 1,845,000 Ibs. in 1914, and 2,- 000,000 Ibs. in 1916. The value of output of tin plate is stated by the census of 1899 at 32 million dol- lars and for 1914 68 million dollars. making it apparent that the annual value now exceeds $100,000,000. Atout 25 billion 1bs. of tin plate been produced in the United S the 25 years since the beginning the industry. Meantime, tin plates has assumed an important position in the list of exports from the United States; the value of the exports of do- mestic tin plate having grown from one thousand dollars in 1899 to one million dollars in 1908, 12 millions in 1915, 21 millions in 1916 and 42 mil- lion dellars in 1917. The -distribution of this now exported extends to piactically every part of the world. Of the million 1bs. exported in 1917, 65 mil- lion 1bs. went to Argentina, 30 mil- lions to Ind 20 millior to the Dutch East Indies, from which of the tin for its manufacture ported, 11 millions to Straits Settle- ments, which supply an even larger quantity of the tin used in the. man- ufacture, 23 million Ibs. to China, 49 millions to Japan;- 2 millions to Asi- itic R while the United Kingdom, which ranks next to the United Stgtes as a manufacturcer of tin plate, took in 1916 54 million lbe. of our output and in 1915 26 million 1bs, Prices of the tin 1 tin York sent tin plate even imported for use advanced fr | in the | the | and is | producer | in the manufacture of tin plate have steadily and persistently advanced not only during the war period but in the dozen preceding rs, this increase in price being apparently due in part at least to the increasing demand which has more than kept pace with production. The outturn of tin has increased but about 50 per | cent. since 1900, while our own out- turn of tin plate has trebled in the od The prices pald in the ates for imported tin, have m less tha 13c per 1b in 1900; 36c in 1911, 46 and 53¢ per ! Deocer 1917, these figures heing in ail cases pricos in the country from which the is imported into the United States. Most of the tin imported origin- ates in the Malayan Peninsula, the world's largest®producer in tin, Cer- world's 1897 to 27c in in 1913 | small tain of the Dutch Bast India Islands in the same general section of the globe also supply considerable quan- tities of tin, some of which is shipped | thence- te the Malayan Peninsula for relting and re-cxportation. Honsg- keng is also exporting comparatively quantities of tin, produced in ina, and Great Eritain produces tin rom her mines in Wales, but not sufficient for her domestic use. Bo- livia has been for many years a pro- ducer of tin, her output representing about 20 per cent. of the world’s pro- duction, and having been in the past exported in the form of ‘‘concen- trates” to Furope for smelting, but at present a part of it is being brought into the United States for smelting and sale to the tin plate and other manufacturing industries of the country. STRIKE IN AUSTRIA Public Sodialists Inform Demonstra- | tion Is Planncd, But the Present Is Not Opportunc Moment. Vashin An address to | adopted at congress of the Austria affirms sts in the Aus- ton, June 7.— Austrian recent the proletariat the German socialists that great unrest trian working classes and that a gen- cral strike against further continua- tion of the war is planned. An official dispatch from Switzer- land the government is warned ; by the socialists of the consequences which will Tesult from conviction by the proletariat that the Central Pow- ers intend to continue hostilities for the warlike aims of the imperial gov- ernments. On the other hand, the addre: declares that after consci- Vienna of exi savs entious amination of the conditions in which the e may take pla the congress rmed in its opin- ion that the present moment would not be favorable for a at strike. “The congress,” continues the dis- patch, “invites the Austrian working class to hold itself in readiness for the struggle at a fayorable moment, which cannot fail to &ome.” ¥ Sw observers see in the address and in comments on it by the Arbeiter Zeitung the underlying influence of the government, which seeks to avoid at this critical time a general walkout, with attendant internal disorders. “Besides the address,” says the dis- patch, ‘“the congres: in resolutions, protested against the peace of Brest- Litovsk and of Bucharest, declared it- self for peace without annexation or indemnities, both in regard to France, Italy, Russia, Serbia and Rumania; proclaimed the right of peoples to dispose of their affairs themselves and pronounced itself in favor of the league of nations.” ‘DEVIL DOG’ AND ‘BLUE DEVIL’ TOGETHER American on States marine. 5 with him, hund,” whicl German for “devil the loft i 1ritz, after his dubbed him a perfect dos.”” The “teufel good is soldier on the right is a membor of the Chasseurs Alpins, whom the Ger- mans have called ‘“*blue devils.” Both marine and chasseur have willingly accepted the appellations. OPEN FIGHTING IS THE RULE ON WESTERN FRONT 7 Sl Open fighting is taking the place of ‘ rench warfare on the western front the through. 1w, especially during German mnass efforts to break In ! photog this fighting the machine guns plays an important part. The gunners run across a stretch of open ground, then, is shown in this British official ph, they ambush themsclves in a thicket or some other handy bit of shelter. This machine-gun squad is working its Lewis gun only 100 yards from the advancing German lines. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1918. Copyright, 1918 The House of Kuppenheimer By THE HOUSE of KUPPENHEIMER REPUTATION of more than half a century for top quality in fabrics is a good guide to reliable clothes this season. Good fabrics were never so scarce. Your Kuppenheimer store may not be able to take care of you if you delay your purchases too long. But every Kuppenheimer garment will be up to standard. A variety of styles to suit all men and young men. 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