May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 146

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(LABOR.) GOMPERS, SAMUEL. Two Typed Letters Signed, "Sam'lGompers," as President of the AFL, The first, to U.S. Ambassador to France Hugh C. Wallace, thanking for sending and praising Wallace's speech delivered at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on "Decoration Day" [Memorial Day]. The second, to Fox Film Corp. General Counsel Saul E. Rogers, inquiring whether Fox intends to produce films in Europe where costs are lower thereby giving American jobs to Europeans. Together 3 pages, each 4to, "American Federation of Labor" stationery," written on rectos of separate sheets; some loss and tearing to upper and lower edges of second letter partly repaired with cello tape, folds. (MRS) Washington, 6 July; 11 October 1921
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11 October: ". . . [I]s it true . . . that yourself and other producers agreed to urge Congress to place a 30 per cent ad valorem duty on films; that . . . you . . . are thinking of producing films in Europe; that this would be a direct blow to the workers of this country in the motion picture industry?
"At the present time there is a clause in the revenue bill which eliminates from taxation domestic capital invested in business in foreign countries. It has been poinited out that the object of this is to permit many corporations to do business in Europe or other foreign countries with money made in America, and without being taxed upon the income derived. . . ."