Evening star., 1942-09-03
Canada 10 Concentrate
Newsprint Industry
In Selected Plants
Steps Token to Shift
Electric Power Loud
To Aid War Effort
b. the Associated Press.

To Aid War Effort
b. the Associated Press
OTTAWA, Sept. 3.-Far- reaching
changes in operation of Canada's
largest exporting industry to the
United States were foreShadowed
today in an order of the Wartime
Prices and Trade Board 10 the Do
minion newsprint administrator to
allocate production ana shipments
of paper on which newspapers are
printed.
Canada is The source of nearly
three quarters Of the United States
supply of newsprint
AS explained oy Donald Gordon,
chairman of the board, This means
concentration of production of news
print in those plants and areas
where it can be dcne with the least
interference with Canadian war
production.
Thus Canada has picked news
print as the first non-War industry
to undergo concentration in certain
selected plants. To keep civilian
industry going it is adopting the
program which has been widely
used in England and which has
been announced by Donald NJ. Nell
son, chairman Of the War Produc-
ton Board in Washington, as on the
way for the United States.
Uses 40co of Power.
The newsprint industry is not cnly
q large user of manpower, but also
consumes 40 per cent of Canada's
electric power.
The boards announcement of
bringing newsprint under ALLEGATION,
issued yesterday, pointed out that
the current demand for newsprint is
such that the industry is operating
on the average of only about G5 per
cent Of capacity.
1t is proposed, therefore, to shut
down or curtail mills where man
and electric power are needed, and
speed up mills in areas where labor
and electricity are less vital to war
industry.
BY this method, it is expected that
the American demand for the news
print will be readily met, at least for
some time to come.
A Dominion official, who refused
to be quoted, said newsprint, as well
as other wartime problems, had been
taken up with Washington officials
during regular discussions.
Transportation Problem.
The only problem affecting news
print supply which has come to
light in the United States has been
possible one of transportation. E.
w. Palmer, deputy chief of the print
ing and publishing branch of the
War Production Board, issued a
statement August % urging pub
fishers to study means of meeting
their requirements with the least
possible strain on transportation" :"
The men actively engaged in ham
ding the Canadian newsprint situ-
alton have. long beenaleaders in the
industry. r. l.. Weldon, newly
appointed newsprint administrator,
has been head of the Canadian Pulp
and Paper Association. H. j. Syming-
ton, power controller who must de-
eide with Mr.. Weldon which mills
should get power, is chairman OF
+he board of Price Bros, one OF the
la> er paper companies. Elliott M.
Little, manpower controller, was
loaned to the government by the
big Anglo-Canadian mill at Quebec
of which he was general manager.
That property is controlled by Lord
Rothermere, London publisher.
While no announcements have
been made by Dominion officials as
to which mills will be closed or cur
tailed, Premier Mitchell P. Hepburn
of Ontario said August "a the Do
minion had issued an order 'cloS-
ing" the Thorold, Ontario, mills of
the Ontario Paper Co. because Of
the shortage of power on the Nj
sgara Peninsula.
Unable to Get More Power.
He asserted that negotiations to
obtain more power for Ontario from
Quebec had been unsuccessful and
he would complain loud and long"
II any tonnage from the Thorold
mill went to Quebec mills. 1t is the
larger of two mills operated by the
company, which is owned by the
Chicago Tribune-New York Daily
News.
1t is expected curtailment will
be ordered for some of the mills in
the st. Lawrence Valley area, be-
cause of power needed for Canada's
huge aluminium production.
An area looking for larger pro-
duction is Western Ontario, which
has mills in the Upper Lake Su-
perior country. However, Ontario
Paper Co.'S smaller mill at Comeau
Bay, far north on the St. Lawrence,
generates its own power and is out
of the war industry area. Also, its
ships which take away its paper
bring aluminium ore into the st.
Lawrence by way of the Hudson
River, Erie and Oswego Canals and
Lake Ontario.
Ontario Has No Authority
iTo Art Henburn Saws