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...Passed the Jones Sugar Control bill: 1) making sugar a "basic commodity" so that a processing tax can be imposed on it; 2) directing the Secretary of Agriculture to limit beet sugar, production to 1,550,000 short tons, cane sugar production in Louisiana and Florida to 260,000 tons; 3) authorizing him to quota sugar imports of Cuba and U. S. island possessions so that total domestic production and imports shall not exceed U. S. consumption; sent it to the Senate...
...certain conditions attached to their autonomy. The chief premise of their refusal was the sugar tariffs which would naturally be set up against the Philippines as a foreign nation. This economic possibility had won the votes of the American sugar interests, both the Louisiana cane bloc and the Western beet growers headed by Smoot. They had already established a low quota and a high tariff against Cuba and they objected to Philippine free trade in this commodity. There is no question that they were perfectly justified in wishing to end the competition of American and Philippine sugar production. But American...
President Roosevelt recognized this situation when he brought before Congress a lowered tariff and an increased quota for Cuba, and at the same time attempted to decrease the sugar beet production. But the howls of the Smoot coalition were not needed to remind him that the Philippine competition was the nigger in his economic woodpile...
...before the Texas vote, NRA revoked its first Blue Eagle in a case involving child labor. Victim was neither a shrimp cannery operator nor a sugar beet harvester, both notorious pre-NRA child-sweaters, but one Moss P. Lugena, 53, proprietor of the Lugena Family Laundry...
...Biggest Mormon-controlled sugar company is Utah-Idaho, headed by Heber Jedediah Grant, chief of the Twelve Apostles. Amalgamated, Mormon-managed, is part of American Beet Sugar Co., second largest beet sugar producer...