November i, 1902.] 



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THE RECENT LABOR TROUBLES. 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorial: pack 



The Recent Labor Troubles 37 



Brains as an Adulterant for Ruulier .. 3» 



A Government Report on Rubber 3h 



Minor Editorial i9 



American Production of Insulated Wires 



. . . TItirmas Comerford Miti-tin 41 



[From :i Hulletin of llie United States Census of 1900 ] 



Cultivation of " Castilloa Elastica " in Java 42 



[Contributed by Dr. Spire to a French Journal.] 



The IndiaRubber Trade in Great Britain 



..Our Regular CmreipmuUiit 44 



[Solid Vehicle Tires. Las Cascadas Rubber Plantations. Improved 



Spreading Machines ((KiV/f Two Illustrations), Rubber Goods in 



the late South African Campaipn. Complaints Regarding Rubber 



Goods. Motor Notes. Death of Dr. J. H. Gladstone. New Works.] 



The Chicle Industry of Mindanao (Illustrated) 47 



American Capital in Rubber Exploitation 48 



[Para Rubber Plantation Co. {IViih il,i/>). United States Rubber Co. 



in Bolivia. American Crude Rubber Co. Enterprises in Ecuadorand 



the French Congo.] 



Corner Stone Laying at a Rubber Factory 50 



[With Portraits of the officers of the Vulcanized Rubber Co.] 



Some Wants of the Rubber Trade 51 



Allan Magowan, Rubber Superintendent. ( lyith Portrait) 52 



New Goods and Specialties in Rubber <'»«s£rated) 53 



["Eureka" Automatic Magnetic Separator, Improvement in Felt 



Boots. Boston " Service Heels." The " Little Giant " Household 



Pump. Bowers's Hose Coupling Retainer. Ankle Joint Crutch 



Tips.] 



New Trade Publications 54 



Recent Rubber Patents [American, British, German] 55 



Progress of Rubber Planting 57 



[Profits from a Mexican Plantation. Planting " Cear^ rubber " in 



Nicaragua. Planting in Me-xico and the Far East.] 



Planning for Large Profits in Tires 68 



Jottings from Manaos Lyonel Oariiier 59 



India Rubber Goods in Commerce 60 



Hiscelianeous : 



ibe Rubber Goods Trade in Germany 40 



Treatment of fi'iCTiselasMcn 40 



A Transaction in Fire Hose 49 



Another Mistake Corrected. 62 



Ikeleinba Rubber 56 



Mozambique Rubber Regulations 58 



Rubber Scrap Prices 68 



Obituary— Harry S. Parmelee 68 



News of The American Rubber Trade 61 



The Rubber Trade at Akron Our Correspondent 65 



The Rubber Trade at Trenton Our Correspondent 66 



ArtisticCabinetsof Hard Rubber (/l!us(rate(f) 67 



Fire Hose Statistics of Cities 67 



The Textile Goods Marlcet 68 



Review of the Crude Rubber Market 69 



T^HE Strike in the Pennsylvania anthracite coal fields 

 *■ that has just ended, after having continued since 

 May, was of far more general importance than is usual with 

 industrial strikes. For one thing, it led to a wider appre- 

 ciation of the idea that other interests are involved in such 

 an emergency than those of striking workingmen and their 

 employers. The quality of coal mined in Pennsylvania is 

 a necessity to millions of people, and in the settlement of 

 the strike was recognized the injustice of having the public 

 suffer through any disagreement between the interests di- 

 rectly concerned with mining. It was this consideration 

 that induced the president of the United States, though 

 not empowered either by the constitution or the laws of 

 the country to take any official action in the premises, but 

 as the representative of the whole people, to seek to bring 

 about an understanding between the miners and the coal 

 companies that would result in the resumption of mining. 

 Fortunately the efforts of Mr. Roosevelt have been crowned 

 with success, while not giving cause to either side to feel 

 that its course has been vindicated. The principle in- 

 volved has been the recognition of the right of the people 

 not to be deprived of a necessity of life while the pro- 

 ducers are engaged in a dispute, and doubtless one perma- 

 nent result will be some legislation for the better protection 

 of the peoples' rights in like cases in future. 



Apart from this consideration, the subject possesses a 

 special interest for the rubber trade in the United States 

 because at this time the professional organizers of labor 

 are endeavoring in more than one center to bring about 

 the control of rubber workers in a body under regulations 

 in which the employers of the latter shall have no voice. 

 The history of the India-rubber industry in this country 

 for more than a half century is full of evidence of fair 

 dealing toward employes of every class, and the industry 

 as a whole has been singularly free from the labor troubles 

 known as "strikes." Around every large factory of long 

 standing has grown up a laboring population living in con- 

 tentment and comfort, one generation succeeding another 

 in the employ of the same company, the workingmen mak- 

 ing good citizens, and many accumulating a competency, 

 while the more capable have in time become superintend- 

 ents, managers, and even proprietors. But such conditions 

 do not prevent the breeding of trouble the moment that 

 an element is introduced in the shape of a third party^ 

 the labor union — when the latter assumes to stand as an 

 intermediary between employe and employer, and works 

 assiduously to cultivate the impression that the interests 

 of the two classes are antagonistic. What has happened 

 in the anthracite coal regions may be duplicated, though 

 on a smaller scale, in any rubber manufacturing center. 



It appears that, until within a few years, no labor union 

 existed among the anthracite coal miners, and that such 

 cases of friction as did occur between the miners and 

 their employers were usually settled to their mutual satis- 

 faction after the two parties at interest had conferred. 

 The large number of foreigners employed in the collieries, 

 speaking a dozen or more different languages, made a 



