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Godfather of the U. S. lace industry was the late Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich of Rhode Island, where 41% of the industry is now located. He it was who wrote into the Tariff Act of 1909 a 70% ad valorem duty on. imported lace. Because the U. S. could not easily build the amazingly complex lace-making machines that British manufacturers had been making for a century, the famed Rhode Island protectionist thoughtfully included a provision that machines might be imported duty free for a period of 18 months. Hundreds of machines were hastily installed. Because U. S. labor could...
...Underwood Tariff of 1913 lace duties were cut to 60%, and the whole industry nearly went bankrupt. However, it was saved by the War, which shut off imports from Europe, and in the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act of 1922 the duty was boosted to the present rate-90%, highest ad valorem duty...
...house industry was desperately trying to forestall a tariff cut in connection with the proposed reciprocal trade pact with France. Pleading in Washington before a special tariff committee which acts as a buffer between irate industrialists and State Department negotiators. President Hugo N. Schloss of the American Lace Manufacturers Association solemnly asserted: "I have endeavored to demonstrate to your committee that the machinery of the lace manufacturing industry is a potential arm of the national defense." President Schloss's point was that lace machinery can be used to weave mosquito netting for the Army...
...questioned the U. S. lace-makers' contention that they could never compete on anything like equal terms with the lace-makers of France. U. S. wages are as much as 300% higher than French wages. Their argument was simply that, having raised an umbrella over a domestic lace industry 26 years ago with special tariff treatment, the Government should continue to protect it. If the Government closed its umbrella, capital would be lost and thousands of workers thrown on Relief. The industry has always outdone itself in keeping its workers employed in slack times for fear of losing what...
...point out that during the World War American lace-workers marched side by side with the soldiers of France in France's dark hour of despair, and many made the supreme sacrifice. . . . When they succeeded in obtaining employment, they were required to contribute, through taxes, from their wages, toward the support of this Government, made necessary partly because France . . . not only defaulted but indeed refused to pay to this country the monies loaned her by America during her dark days...