The figures given at SpringSeld were
estimated tijion tho cost of the packed
glass on lxvird ship at Antwerp. But
the rit of freight, insurance, etc., i.s
also a projection to the American
and ought rightly to be added
to the duties in making up the total pro
mittc to ask for still higher duties. D.i
these men want the earth.' Tim indow
glass industry in this country isi'o longer
an infant. It is 100 years oid; but ithtill
cries for i p. Our infant of n century
in its "No. 10 shoe-.' t.nldles up to the
pap dijenscr at Washington and asks
for more luin t n I :i suum
tiny."
The manufacturers offer tin ir ftuniliiir
plea that wages are higher with us than
in Europe. It is their old rot thut
has become so digusted with
e4impariiig the price of daily wages here
with the snino i.i Belgium, and ignoring
the fact that the only true basis for n
enmpnrison of tvages is the percentage
of luiMircost in the total product. Let
uieiii iu:tKe iiiai eoiiiiurisou. i
But what arc tlieir figures on wages?
Two years ago Mr. i L. Bodine,
of the Aaierican Window Glass
Manufacturing association, who usually
acts ks chief sikesman of this industry
heforu coininitteis of congresn, told the'
peiinte committor that the average wages
of glass blowers in Belgium were t'50 to
$100 month, and in the United .Sfites
$75 to 5150. He also told the committee
that the Belgian laliorers worked all the
jear round, but that the American son
cently came here from Belgium to work-in
the Jeannette factory in Pennsylvania
came thiough the instrumentality of
that very association, coming by differ-cut
routes and turning up
nt their common
It is claimed hy these applicants fori
higher dulii s, by iiianufjctiiiers and1
workmen alike, that iuportations of '
1'reiich window glass have greatly in-'
creased durimr the past sewn -war,
'iiiero has been some increase, but tiie
importations last yeur were S.OOO.OOO
pounds less 1'iau in ltt. This is .shown
by tho treasury reporb'.
