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 The out-of-town manufacturers must continually each new help
 the art of making bags, thereby incurring tremendous expense to the
 manufacturer, and the ITe York manufacturers, according to the code
 submitted to you, ask you to have us pay the same amount to our em-
 Dloyees, who, as stated above, must be taught the business from the
 beginning as against the ITer York Manufacturers' employees who have
 a number of years of experience, as the Union membership in New York
 has been closed many years for learners.

 We are employing in our plant approximately five hundred
People. Would it be, and would we be justified in shutting down
our plant and the five hundred families supported thereby become
public charges in order to satisfy a very small percentage of the
industry?

 If the code is adopted in its present form, we will have
no other alternative than to move our plant back to New York, which
we might mention (is the'sole object of the New York Union) thereby
ruining the thousands of families dependent upon the out-of-town
handbag manufacturers.

 To the cost of the out-of-town manufacturers' labor must be
added the tremendous expense involved in breaking in new help. The
tremendous expense involved in the continual travel of their De-
signing Staffs to the Ne. York market. Trucking expenses add mat-
erially to the cost of our manufacturing (and at the same time
give employment to hundreds of people. Our office personnel is
double that of our New York manufacturers due to the many details
necessary for out-of-town manufacturers and which also adds hundreds
of -peoDle to our payroll. And, the many other incidental items
which add greatly to the cost of manufacturing out of the New York
market.

 In conclusion, we again wish to voice our protest of the Code
in its present form, and as above stated, that if the Code is signed
as it is now written, bags will not be able to be manufactured out-
of-town and manufacturers will be obliged, in order to profitably
compete with INew York manufacturers, move their plants back to New
york, or else go out of business entirely, as the ITew York market
does not have enough skilled labor to take care of the entire in-
dustry and learners have not been permitted in the Union for sever-
al years.

 Yours very truly

 GOLDS !ITH BROTHERS
 MANJFACTURIITG CO., INC.

LJB FB

P.S. Whereas we no"- employ over five hundred in our plant, if
we were to move back to New York we would only need approximately
two hundred to produce the same amount of units.


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