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...state had scheduled for publication last June, finally came out last week. Accusing "Trotskyist wreckers and spies" of having "wormed their way" into highest officialdom in order to wreck planning at its source, Planned Economy declared: "Wreckers designated the construction of immense industrial enterprises at places far from raw materials, electric power and water resources. They hampered the development of districts possessing huge raw materials, resources and minerals, and they retarded the construction of important military enterprises...
Chief target of anti-Japanese boycotts is raw silk, which makes up over half of Japan's exports to the U. S., and supplies 92% of the silk used here. Recently Manhattan boycotters staged an "anti-silk parade" and last week students from 150 universities danced in the snow around a bonfire on the Vassar College campus feeding silk stockings and ties to the flames...
Last year, during eleven months, the U. S. paid $91.500,000 for 49,200,000 pounds of raw silk, most of which was used in silk hosiery for women. When a college girl buys a pair of lisle or rayon stockings instead of silk she deprives Japan of exactly 10?, and probably is not aware that at the same time she is taking 21? out of the pockets of U.S. silk hosiery workers. U. S. cotton farmers and non-silk hosiery workers profit to a similar extent. Fearful of such dislocations, both A. F. of L. and C. 1.0. announced...
Such theorizing may be tested if imports of raw silk continue to decline. Militant boycotters point with pride to July when some $4.000.000 was lopped off the $10,940,000 worth of raw silk Japan sold the U. S. in January. October's $8,327,000 slipped to an estimated $6,300.000 in November...
...quota of 6,861,000 tons. Said the Wall Street Journal: "In the opinion of the trade a quota of 6,861,000 tons is too large to permit any sustained recovery in prices from their present low levels." Prices demonstrated that the opinion of the trade was right. Raw sugar quotations in Manhattan (including .9? duty) sagged...