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The Florists' Review 



June 26, 1919. 



vited to make a short talk before the 

 War Labor Advisory Committee of the 

 U. S. Government, of which our fellow 

 member, Mr. Funk, was chairman. The 

 committee and a number of prominent 

 members of the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment were there. While it seems we 

 made little headway in getting that 

 which we so earnestly believed was for 

 the best interest of the country, which 

 was allowing the imipigration of Chi- 

 nese to this country, we feel that the 

 position then taken is only now begin- 

 ning to show its correctness. The labor 

 situation today is almost if not quite 

 as dangerous as it was during the war 

 times; vast numbers of Greeks, Italians, 

 Spaniards and other laborers are go- 

 ing back to their home l^nds. Our la- 

 boring men seem to be so shortsighted 

 as to be willing to place the cost of pro- 

 duction so high in this country that we 

 fear that as soon as the abnormal wants 

 of the world are supplied we shall see 

 the trade needed so much for the pros- 

 perity of our country go to more con- 

 servative lands, and we shall again be 

 put into the borrowing nation class. 



Work with the Ooyemment. 



We were called on frequently to as- 

 sist in getting passports and permits for 

 exports and imports of mercl.andise pe- 

 culiar to our trade. We had numerous 

 meetings with the officials of 'the War 

 Trade Board, the Exemption Board and 

 the Department of Agriculture. It was 

 surprising to find that because of the 

 interference of some seedsmen the cot- 

 ton seedsmen were likely to be placed 

 in the same class as the elevator men 

 who handle grain, their profits being 

 reduced below th ; cost of handling. The 

 matter was threshed out and cotton 

 seed was again placed in the same po- 

 sition as seed wheati 



Hardly had this matter been settled 

 when we were notified that there was; to 

 be an important meeting of the War 

 Trade Board. On arriving, we found such 

 men as the heads of the large mail-order 

 houses. The chairman went promptly 

 into the matter of curtailing the use of 

 paper, stating that there were 730,000,- 

 000 pounds of paper represented in the 

 room, exclusive of the trade. He stat- 

 ed that many industries had been forced 

 to retrench in the use of paper in every 

 form, some even so much as fifty per 

 cent. He then asked these men what 

 they could do, mentioning that newspa- 

 pers must reduce consumption twenty 

 per cent and could not they do the 

 same? -They demurred. They were then 

 told that from November 1 to May 1 

 the consumption of paper must be re- 

 duced ten per cent, and from May 1 to 

 October 1 twenty per cent, and there 

 was no certainty that these quantities 

 would not be greatly reduced later on 

 It was said by one man that they had 

 all the paper they needed in store. This 

 party was promptly told that he must 

 not use it, under severe penalty. It 

 seemed at this point it was time for me 

 to leave, which I did quietly. But in 

 two or three days I was notified that 

 we must either agree for the American 

 seedsmen and hold ourselves responsible, 

 or have the War Trade Board issue an 

 order limiting the paper to be used for 

 seed catalogues. We immediately took 

 the matter up with the War Trade. 

 Board and after a strenuous day's work 

 received a letter which in part said: 

 "So long as you confine your purclases 

 of paper to sizes and weights allowed 

 and carefully comb your mailing lists to 



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