The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-03

standing many faults, have accomp- lished excellent results for men who are not ambitious to rise above their ernployment They believe the unions can do much that Is useful in the, fu- ture in the way of securing better terms for workers who deserve them. However, they have right to com- plain vf these unions which set up . Selfish guIld for individual profit and without regard for the rights of other labor. The unions have fallen into the habit of expecting more from g news paper than any union could hape to ob-
 tain from any other employer These unions are making demands upon the neWspapers because or supposee supposed heIplessness of employers in resisting such exactions. newspaper. to exist, must run all the time, It can not wait to contest strikes or to resist demands
 Serious as this labor trust may ap-
 pear tn some of It's aspects, 1t does not
 compare In objectionable features with a paper combination whtcl is probably the most remarkabIe finAncial freak that we can hnd In a long list of com
 binatton ot monstrosities. The print ing and publishing Pusiness as a whole turns over its capital in about ten
 months Large department stores, that advertise enerGetically, will turn over
 their stocks about seven times year,
 but the largest paper manufacturer in
 the world.--the InteEpational Paper
 Company--with capital exceeding
 sixty million dollars (s60. .0o0. .000). does a gross annual business of only twen- ty-ona million dollars S21,000,QQ0). }. thus requiring three years to turn over
 its capital. It has watered itsslf until 1t has no more money to invest 1t has
 borrowed upon everything It has IL
 cannot earn any more money unless tt can do more business because 1t has not the money with which to do 1t. In- steAd of1acospting its responsibilities and extending It's business to keep pace with the growth of its customers. the Internationa1 Papar Company is pro- ducing less newsprint paper today than
 1t turned out immediately after Its
 organization. The available funds at
 its command which should have been
 used for new paper machines, have
 gone toward the acduirement of 2,57S
 square miles of timber limits registered
 in one of the four land offices In the
 Province of Quebec, Canada. To main
 tain that concern and its allied com
 binations. with their oppressive weight
 of over capttaliGation, and to provide q
 pretaxt for protecting the labor of l6.-
 900 paper mill apployes, receiving less
 than nine millions dollars ($9,000,000l
 per annum, the publishing business has
 been subjected to series of deliber-
 ately planned schemes of extortion. The first step was accomplished in the pingley bill so that publishers could not
 buy paper elsewhere.
 The next sten was one that has just
 been oonsummated, whereby through combinations made in defiance of the
 Federal courts. the supply has been brought below the demand. the mar ket has been starved. the surplus has
 been exhausted. and the price for the present year has been advanced e1s per ton upon a consumption of 900. 00( tons. an addition of $1o.000,000 within one year. Increased cost of manufac- l ture does not justify such an advance Aggravating that situation Is a threat tAcf another advance of S10 per ton next | year. or s9,000.09o advance in two Hyears by an industry that pays an az. l gregate of less than S9,000.000 year tC l its labor. while clamoring to Congress l for g continuance of it's opportunities | te- eoinhine and oppress publishers. The newspapers insist that the papel manufacturers who induced Congress tC protect them against competition from | abroad are under obligations to pro l vide for the present and prospective | demands of consumers in this country To repTess manufacture, or to starve the market so that the papermaker Is fin po- sition to create . famine and to stoI | tLe supply to any publisher, should l rank as a crime. Many newspaper proprietors are unable to obtain any | quotations for paper next year and do not know where to btain g supply | In all the history of crimes charged against Ncombinations and trusts, such a l situation is unprecedented. It demands imm ediata remedy.