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SECRETARY OF COMMERCE REDFIELD SEES
BETTER BUSINESS UNDER NEW TARIFF
LAW.
The latest export and import reports for the
United States, covering the four months of July,
August, September and October, the last month
when the new tariff was in full operation, reached
Secretary of Commerce Redfield Dec. 11. They
show in the first place that the predicted flooding
of the American market by imported goods did not
happen, but, on the contrary, imports actually
decreased. Secondly, these figures show a tremendous
gain in exports.
Other trade figures are presented in substantiation
of the confident assertion of Secretary Redfield
that the United States is just entering a
period of great industrial expansion, in which it
prove itself to be supreme in competition for the
markets of the world. In this particular connection
Secretary Redfield permitted the use of a
report conclusively showing a fear in England of
increasing American business supremacy.
Reports for the month of July, August, September
ancl October show that the imports amount to
$580,677,062, a decrease of $45,553,925 from the
same period of last year, and the exports were
$838,994,853, an increase of $67,953,061 over these
months of 1912.
Commenting on this Secretary Redfield said:
"The first fact that will strike tbe thoughtful
reader will be the falling off of imports in the
first four months of this fiscal year of nearly $40,-
000,000 as compared with the same period of 1912.
The flooding of our markets with the alleged cheap
wares of Europe has not happened. It should be
noted that the month of September in the above
table includes the first, three days of October, up
to the time tbe new tariff took effect ($13,665,000),
but even when this is reckoned, it will still appear
that the month of September by itself was the
largest month of the four for importations and
that October, during which the flood gates were
supposed to be opened, shows no such rush of importations
as some have both threatened and
feared
"On the other hand, the growth of exports in
the same four months of nearly sixty-eight millions
is both surprising and encouraging. This
is not only so when the bulk of almost $839,000,-
000 of exports in four months is considered, but
becomes more so when the regular progressive
grow-th of those experts is examined. Just as
October shows relalively small imports as compared
with those that were by some expected, so
it shows exports large to an unexpected degree.
exceeding September in this respect by over $53,-
000.000. If we examine the details of the exports,
it will be found that the same growth in the ex­
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ports of manufactures which marked the last fiscal
year is continuing now. The total exports of
manufacture have grown by $9,000,000 as compared
with last year and of the aggregate of manufactures,
fully finished goods form 52 per cent.,
thus being more than equal to the two other classes
of manufactured exports taken together. There
can be no inference drawn from the above hard
facts that is not both encouraging, ancl complimentary
to American industry."
FEDERATION OF LABOR OFFICIAL
FAMILY CONTAINS TWO NEW NAMES.
The American Federation of Labor which had
been in session at Seattle, Wash., adjourned November
22, after electing officers and choosing
Philadelphia as the place of its next convention
in 1914. The officers chosen are:
President—Samuel Gompers.
First Vice President—James Duncan.
Second Vice President—Jas. O'Connell.
Third Vice President—Dennis A. Hayes.
Fourth Vice President—Joseph H. Valentine.
Fifth Vice President—John A. Alpine.
Sixth Vice President—H. B. Perham.
Seventh Vice President—John P. White, president
of the United Mine Workers of America.
Eighth Vice President—Frank Duffy, general
secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners.
Treasurer—John B. Lennon.
Secretary—Frank Morrison.
In this list are only two new- men. White and
Duffy. Second Vice President John Mitchell and
First Vice President W. D. Huber retired voluntarily.
For delegates to the British Trade Congress
W. D. Mahon, international president of the
Brotherhood of Street and Elecrtic Railway Employes,
and Matthew Woll of the Photo Engravers'
Union, were elected. Mortimer Doiioghue of
Butte, Mont., was chosen delegate to the Canadian
Trades and Labor Congress.
A conference of delegates was held at which it
was agreed to place John P. White on the executive
board, as John Mitchell had desired.
The vote on convention city was: Philadelphia,
10,684; Fort Worth, Texas, 8,432.
The Ohio State Industrial commission has appointed
the following new deputy state mine inspectors:
Morris Albaugh, Murray City; Andrew
Ginan, Jacksonville; Dennis Sullivan, Coshocton.
and Evan Lewis, Harmon, They wiil succeed
respectively, Edward Kennedy, Carbon Hill; John
McDonald, Glouster; Alexander Smith, New Philadelphia,
and XV. H. Miller, Massillon.