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<br /> yAHt1ASY 4th•1952.
<br /> (Continued)
<br /> WHESEAe.the pulp and paper industry,another braved of the forest Indust-I
<br /> e of ries,which op to the year of 1929 had succeeded iv building up a direct payroll
<br /> within the State of 1n excess of$9,000,000 with total per man dogs of 1•'134,000
<br /> and and nd thereby partially offset some of the diminishing per capita demand for direct
<br /> lumber products,is now suffering the same Yate as the lumber industry,thin Sv
<br /> spite of the fact that contrary to the dimishing market for lumber products we
<br /> have within ourcountry an us demand for pulp and paper products,and
<br /> WHEREAS. pulp Industry hoe during the years of 1930 and 1931 suffered j
<br /> by the drop in prices on the importation from Canada and 9 0dthe ftn countries to
<br /> the extent that two of ournew planta have hto to close down;the YSheaolvl return
<br /> f the others has suffered and It Se but a question of time when these n
<br /> planta will also have to close down. This palls rps duct,made from forest wood new
<br /> umbar,1�admitted dots fres to this ocdt, and withouttrlatdone of any kind,
<br />.e to e50%1ces on of the fairpanduteaassotableen lowered market price prevailinthe gnforouf.turers fr.this identical product
<br /> during the prier ten years•and,
<br /> WHE.sAS•a total of 2,000,000 tone of pulp entered the United States du
<br /> I..sack of:he last few years Sneludlng 1950,1n spite of lowered consumption in
<br /> thea market,and the d3ml nishing demand for the product has had to be absorbed by
<br /> the demesne producers unable to compete with the price policy fixed by the foreign
<br /> manufacturers,thus testifying that the dumping of these products is continuing
<br /> unabated,and,
<br /> W0 OB,this dumping has been materially aided and Snoreased by the
<br /> decolorization of currencies..Canada and the 9oandlnecian countries,the direct
<br /> eompsetftiore of our domestlo production. This devalnrieatan has automatically give
<br /> countries a verf.therthe advantage of from IS%to 25,4,making it possible for
<br /> to at to further lower the market price on these products exported to the United
<br /> States by this per0entage of dev.orization.terms
<br /> This,in to f lumber tone,means
<br /> $2.00 to$3.00 per Y feet and in terms of pulp from$10.00 to$15.00 per ton,and,
<br /> Wthese foreign countries areand will continue to use this advan-
<br /> tage it oursoer ency decolorization for hepturfng our own home:,0oneum0ae markets,fore-
<br /> top the domestic producers to meet these prohibitive prices o close down,end:,
<br /> e 1 r••ael1tastee4buthlane ve named countries have not.treatedthiscommodity on
<br /> rroduot entering their countries,shmaking it impossibled and now have a e for American prvalorem odu eon reeto
<br /> same
<br /> sell in their own machete. This,in spite of the foot that their wage staharde
<br /> wted in many instances are but one-half of the wags paid to Ameri.av workmen engaged in
<br /> the same industry,and labor,and Lraoaportation in the manufacturing of pulp repro-
<br />, sante the bulk of the total coat of the comm.itY,and.
<br /> T 0BAt.our Antidumping Lan of 1921•intended by Congress to protect dem-
<br />• osteo manufas,tot s from this un@alr type R competition,has proven wholly inade-
<br /> pquate sod has,not been enforced to tect these,industries from this vicious com-
<br /> etition.in spite of repeated efforts to have it applied. and,
<br /> WHEREAS,Amer..industries have been and are deprived of fair due sty on the smaller...toga of foreign markets we have producing
<br /> enjoyed hin the past due Eo
<br /> e develariaateon of the countries above named producing these products.
<br /> obab- American foreign markets for the aame hove practically been Closed and a cant vow
<br /> be malntel.d ea long a maintain the gold standard of currency,and,a
<br /> Wp in employment
<br /> emergency.lets to protect aur home industries so ere to avoid
<br /> further drop Sn employment0of our own Citizens,who should be permitted to produce
<br /> Dods that w ,pattloularly when no economic good is served by
<br /> this dumping offoreign semi-raw material So our
<br /> markets to the further destruction
<br /> of badly depleted commodity prices and transfer of urgently needed payrolls to our
<br /> foreign campetetdrs at the expense of e..yreenL in,our Own,
<br /> d to
<br /> HOW THIE370EE BE IT HHSOLVEC BY THE CITY C®gRB9IOH89B OE TEE CITY CT
<br /> EVEREST:
<br /> In assembly having considered itis problem,that we hereby petition our
<br /> honored President.and Congress a ambled.ae follewe:
<br />.000 1: To,immediately emend our Antidumping Yaw,to make it promptly enforce-
<br />.he able without the delays and investigations described therein•,which of 0th®selves
<br /> Tree- have proven useless and made the intent of the law impossible of enforcement as
<br /> the said Antidumping Law under several teats has placed the burden of final proof.
<br /> Ind o the American oprtduoer 1mm�esd o1 the foreign shipper Whe..in ether 000.0r.3.
<br /> saw ie made to show oneluefve proof an euepecion o£dumping Ietm.
<br /> 2: That this law be further emended.or other provisions mode,to prompt-
<br /> 1931 ly levy again et theme prvducte ev tis Seg the Uvi ted a oouu a dumping duty eggal to
<br /> Lhe diffesevo e,SY any z.the currency value iv the noentry 0f origin to the gold
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