Page 1869: Our city of Camden has four large match factories. employing more than 500 hands. with an aggregate capital of $150.000. Today but one plant is running. and that one is losing money. and all because foreign matches arc being imported into the United States at a cost of ".0 cents per gross from Japan. when it costs us 40 cents per gross to produce them here. I speak of the most salable sizethe small box containing 60 matches to the hox. The Diamond Match Company has erected at Liverpool a large plant costing $1.000.00. and they are satisfied to have the present Wilson tariff. We are not connected in any manner with trusts or pools. but we can not compete with the pauper labor of Europe.
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