The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-25

carried. There are limits beyond which
they cannot go, even though they are we'll
wi6hers of organized labor. They are ap-
preaching that limit where their necessities
may force them to stop further conees-
sions and allowances. They wish to en-
phasize the fact that they have no objec-
tons to unions. They believe that the
unions. Notwithstanding many faults, have
accomplished excellent results for men
who are not ambitious 10 rise above their
employment. They believe the unions can
do much that Is useful in the future in
the way of securing better terms for
workers who deserve them.
However. they have a right to complain
of those unions which set up a selfish
guild for Individual profit and without re-
gard for the rights of other labor. The
unions have fallen into the habit OF ex-
pecting more from n newspaper than any
union could hope to obtain from any other
employer. These unions are making de-
mands upon the newspapers because of
supposed frisndlirles5 for unions and be-
cause of supposed helplessness of employers
In resisting such exactions. A newspaper,
to exist. must run all the time. 1t cannot
wait to contest strikes or to resist de-
mands.
Serious as this labor trust may appear
in some of It's aspects, II does not COM
pare in Objectionable features with a
paper combination, which Is probably the
most remarkable financial freak that we
can find in a long list of combination mon
stroslties. The printing and publishing
business 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 a
year, but the largest paper manufacturer
In the world--the International Paper COM
~pany-with a capital exceeding sixty min
lon dollars ($60, 900, 000, does a gross annual
business of only twenty-one million dor
lars ($21, 100000, thus requiring three years
to turn over It's capital. 1t has watered
itself rntil 1t has no more money TO IN
vest. 1t has borrowed Upon everything 1t
has. II cannot earn any more money unless
It can do more business. and it cannot do
| more business to do IT
: Instead of accepting Its responsibilities
and extending its business to keep pace
with the growth OF its customers, the IN
ternational Paper Company Is producing
less newsprint paper today than 1t turned
out Immediately after its Organization.
The available funds at its m which
should have been used for new paper ma
chimes, has gone toward the acqnifemelfs
of 1887 square miles of timber limits regis
tered In one of the four land offices In the
Province of Quebec, Canada To maintain
that concern and its allied combinations
with their oppressive weight of o~ver-capa-
talization. and to provide a pretext for
protecting the labor of II, goo paper mill
employees, receiving less than nine million
dollars 5000, 00o, per annum, the publish
ing business has been subjected to q series
of deliberately planned schemes ck ex-
aThe first step was accomplished In the
Dingley bill, so that publishers could not
buy paper elsewhere. The next step was
one that has just been contaminated,
whereby, through combinations made IN
1 def1ance OF the Federal COufLc, Lne supply
has been brought below the demand, the
market has been starved, the surplus hzs
been exhausted, and the price for tho
present year has been advanced s12 per ton
upon a consumption OF 10000 tons, an adj
ditlon Of ten million dollars within one
year. Increased cost of manufacture does
not justify such an advance. A~ggravating
that sItuation Is q threat OF another adj
vance Of $40 per ton next year. or nine
million dollars more, a total of nineteen
million dollars advance In two years by
an Industry that pays an aggregate of less
than nine million dollars a year to its
labor, while clamoring to Congress for a
continuance OF its opportunities to combine
and Cypress publishers.
1.-THE newspapers insist that the paper
manufacturer who induced Congress to
protect them against competition from
abroad are under obligations to provide
for the present and prospective demands
OF consumers in this country. To repreaH
manufacture, or to starva the market so
that the paper-maker is IN position 10
create a famine and to stop the supply to
any publisher, should ram as a crime.
Many newspaper proprietors are unable
to obtain any quotations for paper next
year, and do not know where to obtain q
supply. In all the history OF crimes
charged against combinations and trusts,
such a situation is unprecedented. It de-
mands immediate remedy"