Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-09
RELIEF FOR JuAREz HITS PAPER MAKERS
Navarro With 1000 Troops, John Norris Appears Before
Heading Toward City. Ways and Means Body.
REBELS ENCAMPED NEARBY lFAV0RS CANADIAN PACT
Says Manufacturers Systematically
and Followers. Starve the Market
FIGHT IN PICACHIO CANYON COMBINE TO ADVANCE PRICES
Ammunition-Pack papers Money
pordor nnlyb
John Norris Appears Before
Ways and Means Body.
FAV.0RS CANADIAN PACT
Says Manufacturers systematically
Starve the Market.
COMBINE TO ADVANCE PRICES
Don. C.. Seitz Tells Committee News
papers Can Make Money
Only by Economy.

OAAy Oy 6CouOLny.
Severe arraignment OF the alleged Of
fensive methods of the paper manufactur-
ers of the United States was feature or
the statement made to the ways and
means committee by John Norris. chair
man of the paper committee OF tho
American Newspaper Publishers As
sociation. in advocating the Canadian
trade agreement.
Il regard the Canadian reciprocity ar
rangement now before you as the great
est economic advance that has been mads
by the United States In the present gen
eration." said Mr.. Norris 1T broadens
our markets, 1t promotes interchange that
will Immediately and directly benefit 10
per cent of the population
II appear as the representative OF news
papers which pay more than fifty-fve mil
lion dollars per annum for news print
paper. They are deeply concerned In tho
paper and pulp clause of the treaty, and
they ask you to approve that clause ex-
actly as it appears in the agreement.
Prices Greatly Advanced.
ihC toh6lc III tic AIIFTttdU govern
ment with Canadian provinces and the
tariff burdens imposed upon print paper
have added more than six million dollars
per annum to the price which newspapers
would pay for raw material under normal
conditions The complication with Can
ada and the excessive duty have enabled
American paper makers to combine for
advance in print paper prices. They
nave an organization that is more op-
pressfve and more elusive than the Gen
eral Paper Company which the govsrn-
ment suppressed In 1906.
The paper makers arc systematicallv
starving the market The entire stock
OF paper on hand at the beginning or
this year was less than an eight-day sup
ply Tor the newspapers Of the country
In December. 1910, they exported more
print paper than Canada shipped TO ue.
The president of the Union Bag and
Paper Company, Edgar G. Barrett In an
interview printed last August. a copy OF
which l now submit. gave details Of the
panies reduced their production to IS pe,
cent or their normal output to allow
weaker mills to get a market The presi-
dent OF the American Paper and Pulp
Association July IL. 1910. issued q letter
to the paper makers urging curtailment OF
production. A copy OF that letter / now
furnish to the committee.
Inc wrapping paper pool advanced
prices to the extent Of $o.OO0OOO per an
mum, pleaded guilty in the United States
court and paid a fine. The box board
pool also pleaded guilty and paid a dne
Both OF these interests are affected by
this paper clause. The West Virginia
Pulp and Paper Company, according to q
recent announcement. increased its capi-
tai stock to s20,OOO,O0O
Other Mills Follow Suit.
Paper statesmen report that when that
company changes its prices the other
book paper mills follow within twenty four
hours. The paper makers established u
statistical bureau, ostensibly to ascer-
tain the condition of the market We well
come the information gathered by that
bureau. but we object TO the which
the paper makers have been making Of IL
to regulate prices. A simultaneous reduc-
t1on recently OF S3 per ton by the sui
phfte pulp makers was evidence OF con-
certed action by them in price fixing
All but two of fifty print paper max
ers of the country are violating the Sher-
man law by restricting the use to which
the paper they sell can be put. No print
paper can be bought r. o. b. mill unless
the name Of the buyer the destination or
the paper and the use to which it is to
be put are disclosed. as well as the infor-
nation that the buyer has no contract
with any other mill.
II have been unable to buy paper from
the paper mills, although ! offered spot
cash for delivery f. O. h. mill During
the past summer the largest paper com
panies refused to quote paper for 191I a
any price. Today it is impossible for the
larger newspapers to obtain quotations
from more than one mill at any price
The largest buyer I'm the country, who
uses 100000 tons per annum. will prob
ably pay an increase of xtaWgt0 per an
mum for his paper because Of the methods
of the paper makers.
Uniform Price Established.
Since the passage of the Payne-AIdrich
law, though the duty on print paper had
been reduced s2.25 per ton that is, from
$500 to 1915 per ton. the paper coinSina-
tion has advanced prices $50 per ton
and threatens further advances. Pub
fishers whose contracts are expiring find
that they cannot get any terms except
from the mill which had supplied tnen.
A uniform price of So per ton has been
established by the paper makers. IL
makes no difference what the freight rat.
is within n given zone.
Mr.. Barrett In an interview I'm Lon
don. has urged tho British manufacturers
to adopt a similar price OF 81 per ton.
Paper has been sold abroad by the paper
makers at less than the domestic price.
1.-The president of the american Pulp
and Paper Association disclosed To vour
committee in November. 1905 that his
paper mill at Niagara Falls. Oh an in
vestment of $1NWH,. has paid dividends
regularly and had accumulated a surplus
of s40O,O00. That mill is an antique
'.The International Paper Company ac-
quired Ill paper machines thirteen years
ago. 1t has sold diverted many OF
them. and has less than sixty-seven ma
chimes now making print paper. In thir-
teen years 1t has added only two ma
chimes to it's equipment. The average
capacity OF its machines is twenty-one
tons per day per machine. whereas mod
ern machines turn out flfty-six tons per
day.
Foreign pulp has displaced American
pulps in American paper mills because OF
the primitive conditions which prevail !n
American mills. Only 81 per cent OF the
who'd which reaches an American paper
mill is converted into print paper. An
American print paper mill requires ITO
pounds of raw material to make 100
pounds of paper. whereas English and
German mills require 1O3 pounds Of raw
material to make 100 pounds OF print
paper.
Waste Adds $2O, ZOO, 900.
"The waste Of wood and of material
and the bad workmanship due to lack or
technical equipment add over S2O, 900
ner annum to the cost of print paper
which publishers must pay. This waste
is attributable. to the fact that the paper
and the paper tarin have
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