In regard to Mr. Chamberlain's tinplate fallacies, we have received
an excellent letter from Mr. Harry Jones, from which we may extract the following points as a sufficient answer. On the question of "dumping," Mr. Jones observes that Mr. Chamberlain is quite needlessly distressed at the loss in British wages represented by the purchase of cheap German steel by Welsh manufacturers. "Mr. Chamberlain does not realise that we pay the Germans for these goods by sending them goods on which British labour has been expended," the iron and steel goods alone exported to Germany in the ten months ending. October 31st, 1903, being valued at £820,000. The British tinplate trade does not live on " dumped " steel, but "dumped" steel has been a welcome auxiliary of late years. Again, " dumping " is a process which injures, not us, but those who practise it. "Every ton of cheap American or German steel 'dumped' on to the British market makes it more difficult for the Americans and Germans to compete with us in the markets of the world as sellers of ships, locomotives, machinery, tin- plates, and galvanised sheets."
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