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...Proposed fair trade practice rules for the silk industry. As it has already done with the rayon industry, FTC at the request of certain members of the silk business drew up a proposed set of rules which will not go into effect until after a public hearing August 2. Points which upset the industry last week were that the label on silk state the exact proportion of metallic weighting and finishing materials in the goods, if any, and that the word "silk" may not be used in a firm's name unless a "substantial part" of its business...
Industrial Rayon...
...Summoned to Washington to confer with the Federal Trade Commission on fair trade practices for the wool industry, the National Association of Wool Manufacturers refused to attend. F. T. C. is pondering a set of fibre identification rules for wool textiles such as those which upset the rayon industry last year (TIME, Nov. 29). Said President Arthur Besse of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers : "The wool textile industry as a whole does not desire or see the need for any such trade practice conference. . . .' F. T. C. retorted that its conference would begin on March...
Last year, during eleven months, the U. S. paid $91.500,000 for 49,200,000 pounds of raw silk, most of which was used in silk hosiery for women. When a college girl buys a pair of lisle or rayon stockings instead of silk she deprives Japan of exactly 10?, and probably is not aware that at the same time she is taking 21? out of the pockets of U.S. silk hosiery workers. U. S. cotton farmers and non-silk hosiery workers profit to a similar extent. Fearful of such dislocations, both A. F. of L. and C. 1.0. announced...
...great part of the silk hosiery turned out by U. S. manufacturers (42,000,000 dozen pairs in 1936) or throw the 90,000 workers in the industry out of a job seemed slim. About 65% of silk hosiery machines in operation can be converted to lisle or rayon production without much loss. Tide last week reported that during the last two months 55 manufacturers have begun to make lisle hosiery although only five did so before...