The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-11
HUDSON RIVER
MILL VISITED
Congressional Committee Gets
Figures From the Paper
Trust.
WORK ENTIRELY INFORMAL
CHAIRMAN MANN DECLINES TO
MAKE COMMENT.
WORK ENTIRELY INFORMAL

Corinth, n. Y, May lO.-After an entire
day and night spent at the Hudson River
mill of the International Paper company,
the congressional committee which is in
vestigating the manufacture of news print
paper in this country. left this after
noon for Washington. where tomorrow
they will resume hearings. The repre-
sentatives spent all their time in learn
ing the process Of papermaking at first
hand, in sscertaining from the employees
of the mills the ratio OF wage increase IN
the last ten years. Most of the commit
tee work was entirely informal, and II
was only al a short hearing that any
sworn testimony was taken. Representa-
tives James r. Mann of Illinois. chair
man of the committee, would make no
comment on the result of the visit lie
stated that the committee had not yet
decided if il would visit other mills or
the International Paper company ana
had fixed no time for completion OF the
investigation
Figures of the Paper Makers.
In their trip through the mill the rep
resentatiVes were accompanied Dy al
ren Curtis of New York, a director OF
the company; c. w. Lyman of New YORK,
assistant TO the president of the com
pany, and W. \. WhitcOmb of New YORK,
manager of The manufacturing depart
ment The committee was informed Dy
these officials that the COmpany's invest
ment AT the Hudson River mill is between
| s. 600 600 and 5000 00D, and that the per-
| centage of wage increase during the last
! ten Years has been between Go l-3 and -
| Der cent The working force at the Hud-
son River mill is divided into nineteen
main divisions of labOrers, and these are
| further sub-divided into nearly one nun
| bred others with an individual wage scare
/ for each class of wOTkmen. Inc heads
of several of these sections were sworn
/ as to their present wages and those tney
/ received for the same class OF lapoI teh
wears ago. With no exception the tesll-
mOny of the witnesses was 70 tne eIIecl
/ that their wages now were sllghtlN larger
| Than ten wears ago, and that their time
| of labor per week had been shortened
/ from sixtv-fiVe and siXty-slX hours d
| week to forty-eight hours.
Opinion of superintendent.
| Charles W. Walker, superintendent or
| the Hudson River mill. stated in his testi-
| rnonv that he had been superintendent OF
| the BromptOn mill in Canada ana ina
! i'm his opinion common mill laborers in
! Canada received u cents an nOuI' do
! against Is cents for American laDOLers'
1 ne said that skilled employees IN the 1ah-
| adam mills had to be imported into Can
ada from the United States. lie also
! testified that % per cent of the pulp WOOD
/ 1tsed in the Hudson River mlll comes
from Canada. The present force o. me
Hudson River mill is 90 men, ne sdlu,
. and the capacity of the plant is 80 tons
~ dan, the greatest in the United States
SUPERINTENDENT Walker was directed u
prepare a table showing the wages PEI
| week maid at the Hudson River nllI lt
1898. 1902 and at the present time. ms
will beu sed by the committee IN Fehuei
ing its decision