EMPIRE DOMINATION
I'.S. WOOLGROWERS UNEASY Received Monday, 11.58 p.m. NEW YORK, Jan. 13. Asserting that the American woolgrower was suffering through the operation of the British wool niono]ioly the Wool Conference at Chey- • ane, Wyoming, passed a resolution itrging legislation which would confivl imports hy means of quotas and mmble the United States to proyide .li i per cent of its peacetiine con.smnption. Tiie resolution stated that American industry's chief competitors wore British Empire areas which pniducesi two thirds of the apparel wool ushi tliroughout the world. These enornious quantities of wool • ioininated the world' s market in quantiiy, in price levels and in method.s oi distribution. The conference aiso decided to seek, iirstiy, import quotas on wool tev tiles in order to protect American manufacturers wlio lj.old the consnmers' home-grown clip; secondly, b-gislation which would establish a comparable price for wool and give it the same benefits accorded to other American agricultnral commodities.
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 January 1947, Page 5
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154EMPIRE DOMINATION Chronicle (Levin), 14 January 1947, Page 5
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