Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-12-22
WRAPPING PAPER MAKERS
URGE HIGHER TARIFF RATE
Low Value Of German Mark
Makes Foreign Compcti.
ton Dangerous.
MAnCusE BEFORE COMMITTEE
Pomincnt Richmond business MINI.
Representing American Paper and
Pulp Association. Asks Increased
Protection for Great L. y. Industry.
IBy Associated Press.

N.NS!tA.Nt l p>, Dec. -l.---ACGi-
'ional protection for Americas bill
lion-doliar papor-makirg industry
aga!ns; competition from Germany
and tho Scandinavian countries was
asked Of the Senate Finance Commit
tee today by the American Paper and
Pulp Association.
Spokesman for various branches Of
the industry, except newsprint. gave
details as 10 conditions IN their lines
Producers of paper wall board alone
urged tina; their products be put on
the free list.
The tariff trainers also heard rep
rcscntatives of book publishers cdu-
cational organizations, public Ii
brarics and workmon in the book
binding and lithogra phlng trades
Spokesman for the publishers. cduca-
fional organizations aud libraries
wanted low rates on books in the
English language, with foreign Ian
GuaEe books. books in English over
20 years old and text books admitted
Tree. 1t was argued that knowledge
should have as free course as pos
sible and that 20 impose duty on
nd books was to strike a; tho very
heart OF scholarship and civilization.
Urge 80 Fer Cent Rate.
Representatives Of the mtdrna-
tional Brotherhood OF Book binders.
tho American liberation OF Labor
and the United Typothetae of Amer
sea urged that the 20 per cent rate
IN tho Fordncy bill bc increased TO
30 per cent. based on foreign val
uation. They declared that many
hook publishers in this country sent
'hc look plates abroad to have the
books published and bound in order
ia &c; the benefit OF tho cheaper for
eign labor. and that Congress should
protect the American workmen in
these lines.
Spokesman for the American Litho-
craphers and for the Lithorraphic
Employees Association asked that the
committee double the rates in the
Fordney bin on Autographed cMcn-
dars. pictures. cards, labels, flaps and
cigar bands and the like. They de-
clared that Germany was threatening
the American industry, adding that
because OF the low value OF thu mark
German lithographinG firms paid only
the equivalent of l-2 cents Amcr!-
can money for tho game amount Of
labor that cost 40 cents in this coun-
Try.
Ask New Industry he Saved.
The committee also was asked to
protect from German competition
new American industry which grew
np during the war-that of making
stereotype matriI mats and boards
.SenJamin Wood, of New York. asked
Tor rate OF &c cents u pound on
his product, which. he said. would he
equivalent TO As per cent ad vaiorcn
The rate proposed In the Fordncy
D!1 Is IS per cent ad valorcn
In presenting tho case for the
American Paper and Pulp Associa-
ton. Henry w. Stokes. OF philadel-
phia. Informed the committee that
there had been n falling OF In the
amount OF paper manufactured. and
That no small part OF the difficulties
of the manufacturers was the com
petition from manufacturers In Ger
many and Scandinavia, who, because
OF low wages and deprecated cur
rency. were able to make paper at
20 price which American producers
could not approach
higher Hale ON Photographic Paper.
Speaking for the American Photo
paper Company. Nelson Curtis. OF
Boston, asked that the specific rate
On Photographic paper be : cents "a
pound instead OF cents pound as
proposed IN the Fprdncy hill, with
the additional 20 ~. cent, i,d valorcn,
rate unchanged. "trMHrlss. y. Graham.
of Newark, y. J., representing pub
fishers OF toy books asked for a 90
ler cent al valorcin duty on those