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\  November,  1915. 
exports  to  this  country  from  io9/10  cents  per  pound  to  99/10  cents 
per  pound,  and  made  secret  contracts  for  sales  in  large  quantities  at 
far  lower  prices.  Similar  reductions  in  price  had  not  taken  place  in 
other  countries,  the  reduction  here  being  made  in  the  face  of  world- 
wide advance  in  the  price  of  materials  entering  into  the  manufacture 
of  aniline  oil,  in  addition  to  the  well-known  advance  in  the  labor 
involved  in  its  production. 
"  Another  American  dyestuff  concern  reports  a  considerable  list 
of  colors,  continued  manufacture  of  which  was  rendered  commer- 
cially impossible  by  the  prolonged  underselling  on  the  part  of  foreign 
competitors  at  rates  below  the  ordinary  market  prices  of  the  wares 
in  question." 
After  pointing  out  the  serious  effects  of  the  European  war  upon 
the  supply  of  dyestuff s  furnished  to  this  country,  and  the  practical 
dyestuff  famine  which  has  occurred  in  this  country,  Dr.  Pratt  men- 
tioned specifically  not  only  the  increase  which  has  taken  place  in 
the  production  of  dyestuffs  by  factories  in  existence  prior  to  the 
war,  but  the  fact  that  numerous  new  plants  have  been  established. 
"  Five  domestic  concerns  manufacturing  dyestuffs  have  doubled 
their  output.  Another  factory,  the  branch  of  a  large  German  firm, 
has  greatly  increased  its  output.  Still  another  factory  manufactur- 
ing aniline  has  quadrupled  its  output. 
"  The  great  demand  for  dyestuffs  has  brought  many  new  con- 
cerns into  the  field.  There  are  now  nine  new  plants  making  aniline 
and  intermediates.  Their  total  output  is  18,000  pounds  daily.  One 
new  plant  for  manufacturing  dyestuffs,  capitalized  at  $2,000,000,  is 
now  in  existence  and  is  producing  at  the  rate  of  1000  pounds  daily. 
Another  plant  will  be  ready  for  operation  about  November  1.  An- 
other company,  capitalized  at  $15,000,000,  has  started  plans  for 
extensive  works  in  different  parts  of  the  country. 
"  Our  total  production  of  coal-tar  dyestuff  materials  at  the  pres- 
ent moment  is  probably  over  three  times  the  production  prior  to  the 
European  war.  In  July,  1914,  we  were  saving  a  scant  10  per  cent, 
of  the  coke  by-products  by  means  of  by-product  recovery  coke  plants. 
To-day  we  are  saving  not  less  than  20  per  cent. 
"  This  matter  has  been  thoroughly  discussed  by  the  officials  of 
the  Department  of  Commerce  and  the  Federal  Trade  Commission, 
and  they  have  agreed  substantially  on  these  points,  namely : 
"  1.  That  foreign  concerns  should  be  permitted  to  exercise  no 
privileges  in  this  country  or  against  concerns  in  this  country  which 
are  prohibited  to  domestic  concerns.    In  other  words,  what  we  call 
