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taking it up at the next meeting, would pass upon it, and then
advise the secretary of the Machine Tool Committee of our Asso­
ciation. or myself, who would let our members know of it.
After waiting a reasonable time, and not hearing from them,
we naturally began to inquire. So far as my inquiries have gone,
many of the manufacturers state they knew nothing about it, that
they supposed the committee had full power to prepare and
present this agreement which would be accepted, and nobody
seemed to know definitely just what the trouble was, but they
were all inclined to agree on one point, and that was that the de­
lay was caused through Mr. Montanus, the Secretary, going to
Europe. I have since written to Mr. Montanus to know if he
knew anything in connection with this agreement, or why it
should have been laid on the table. He stated he knew nothing
about it, as he had been to Europe, and in his absence his son oc­
cupied the position of Secretary.
In summing up the situation, it seems that the Machine Tool
Manufacturers are quite willing to increase this discount, and I
think they are waiting for some action to be taken; and in view
of the fact that no action has been taken, nothing has been done
with the first two sections of the three that have been granted.
I think if the matter was brought up, referring to the two con­
cessions given us, and asking for a ruling on the third, you will
find that the machine tool people are quite anxious to agree with
you.
M r. B row n : I would like to read what Mr. Geier said
after we came in from our committee meeting. Mr. Geier said
*1 am pleased to report that we have had a very profitable session
this morning. We met with gentlemen who are reasonable and
want to do the fair thing. We submitted the resolutions of yes­
terday to them, and told them we had met them on two-thirds of
their proposition, namely, that the Convention had voted for ex­
clusive territory. This was received by them with a great deal
of satisfaction. W’e immediately sat down to discuss other points,
and I will say to you that we made very rapid progress. The
time, however, was not sufficient to bring before you a concrete
report. I have now covered the situation, and we are making
progress, and our committee are hopeful of being able to arrive