January 1, 1921 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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eluding soles and lieels, silent floor tiling, contractors' sundries, 

 etc. 



The Olympic Tire & Rubber Co. manufacturer of tires and 

 tubes, has offices at 217 Lyon Building, Seattle, Washington. 

 R. G. Nelson, who is president of the company, is also president 

 of the Olympic Textile Corporation with offices at the same 

 address. 



A sales branch of The Mason Tire & Rubber Co., Kent, Ohio, 

 was opened November 1 at 82 North Broadway, Portland, Ore- 

 gon, in charge of Catlin L. Wolfard, John M. Bruhn and J. H. 

 Callahan. 



The New York Belting & Packing Co. recently opened an 

 office at 313 Felt Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, with a ware- 

 house adjacent in which is carried a complete line of mechan- 

 ical rubber goods. This office will be in charge of George N. 

 Le Roux, who has sold this line of goods for eighteen years, 

 starting as a Chicago city salesman. For the last ten years he 

 has specialized in selling the mining industry. 



Pacific Coast distributers of Racine tires have recently beer 

 in conference with the executives of the Racine Rubber Co. at 

 Racine, Wisconsin. There they were advised of the company's 

 intention to open on December 15 a large addition to the plan/ 

 and to make a considerable increase in the operating force on 

 January 1. The Pacific Coast agents say their surplus stocks are 

 quite cleaned up, and they are concerned most about getting 

 enough tires to meet the large demand expected within a month 

 or two. 



CANADIAN NOTES 



THE Oak Tire & Rubber Co., Limited, has removed from 19 

 Dundas street to 258 Victoria street, Toronto, Ontario. At a 

 recent meeting of the company the capital stock was increased 

 from $400,000 to $2,000,000, half preferred and half common. 

 A stock dividend of 100 per cent was paid to the old share- 

 holders in addition to the usual cash dividend of 6 per cent, 

 which has now been increased to 8 per cent. Frank Law, manag- 

 ing director, reports that $250,000 of the new 8 per cent stock 

 is now being sold, the proceeds of which will be devoted to 

 extending the company's plant and providing a larger working 

 capital. Sales for the first ten months of 1920 are said to have 

 been more than double the sales for the entire year of 1919. 

 V. O. Phillips & Sons, Limited, Kitchener, Ontario, manufac- 

 turer of garage equipment, air compressors, retreading and vul- 

 canizing equipment, etc., have taken over the manufacturing 

 rights in Canada of the "Dri-Kure" tire repair equipment formerly 

 manufactured only in the United States by the Western Vulcan- 

 izer Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Illinois. The officers of the 

 Phillips company are : V. O. Phillips, president and general man- 

 ager, and H. M. Phillips, secretary and treasurer. 



THE RUBBER INDUSTRY OF CANADA 



Canada has not only become "self-supporting" as far as arti- 

 cles manufactured of rubber are concerned but the export trade 

 in rubber articles of the Dominion has greatly increased in the 

 last five years. This is a natural development in view of the 

 fact that the total capital invested in the Canadian rubber in- 

 dustry amounts to $42,787,594. Of this sum $33,005,888 is found 

 in Ontario, which is the center of the industry and boasts of 

 18 plants producing miscellaneous rubber goods, and 5 turning 

 out rubber boots and shoes. Quebec has 3 plants producing 

 rubber goods and 5 in the rubber boot and shoe industry, sup- 

 ported by capital amounting to $9,763,333. British Columbia's 

 one rubber plant produces miscellaneous rubber goods, represent- 

 ing an investment of $18,373. 



Canada's rubber industry furnishes employment for 12,677 per- 

 sons, with 9,334 men and 3,343 women workers. Rubber goods 

 plants employ 6,835, rubber boot and shoe factories, 5,842. The 

 wages paid during 1919 totaled $11,547,817, of which $7,004,028 



was paid to rubber goods employes and $4,543,789 to rubber 

 boot and shoe makers. 



The cost at the works of materials used during 1919 in the 

 rubber goods factories is returned as $19,671,453, while the 

 value at the works of rubber goods produced during the year 

 is given as $38,651,640; similar figures for the rubber boot and 

 shoe factories give costs as $7,862,961 and products valued at 

 $19,351,794. 



The increase in exports of Canadian rubber products is an 

 index to the vitality of the Dominion's rubber industry. In the 

 fiscal year 1914-15 rubber exports were valued at $722,905; 

 1915-16, $3,081,874; 1916-17, $2,911,505; 1918-19, $5,829,590; 

 1919-20, $10,069,963. In the last mentioned year tires to the 

 value of $7,391,777 were included in the exports, of which $3,- 

 547,601 went to the United Kingdom. 



THE RUBBER ASSOCIATION OF CANADA 



A new organization of Canadian rubber manufacturers known 

 as The Rubber Association of Canada has been organized dur- 

 ing the past year, its scope and plan of operation being similar 

 to those of The Rubber Association of America. 



Its authority lies in a charter issued by the Canadian Gov- 

 ernment, March 17, 1920, the association being incorporated 

 under the provisions of the Canadian Joint Stock Companies 

 Act, without share capital. Organization did not really begin, 

 however, until early in May, but so effectively has it been car- 

 ried out that all the rubber manufacturers of Canada are now 

 included in the active membership. 



The by-laws authorize four classes of membership, viz., firm, 

 associate, affiliated and honorary. Committees and divisions 

 have been created to serve the special interests of members in 

 transportation, legislation, foreign relations, industrial relations, 

 as well as in questions relating to the manufacture of tires, foot- 

 wear, mechanical goods, heels and soles, druggists' sundries, 

 proofing and insulated wire. 



The officers are: president, C. H. Carlisle, managing director 

 of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. of Canada, Limited ; vice- 

 president, A. D. Thornton, director of the Canadian Consolidated 

 Rubber Co., Limited ; treasurer, C. N. Candee, managing director 

 of Gutta Percha & Rubber, Limited, Canada ; assistant treasurer, 

 John Westren, managing director of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber 

 Goods Co., Limited, Canada. The directors are the foregoing 

 with W. H. Miner, managing director of the Miner Rubber 

 Co., Limited ; F. E. Partridge, head of the F. E. Partridge 

 Rubber Co., Limited; and Victor van der Linde, of the Van 

 der Linde Rubber Co., Limited. The manager and secretary 

 is A. B. Hannay, for many years a member of the Parliamentary 

 Press Gallery of Canada at Ottawa. Offices have been estab- 

 lished at 808 Royal Bank Building, Toronto. 



Many Canadian firms are members of The Rubber Association 

 of America, but owing to the growth of rubber manufacturing 

 in Canada and to the fact that Dominion companies operate 

 under different laws and tariffs, and have to meet special trans- 

 portation, production, financial and marketing conditions, an in- 

 dependent Canadian organization became desirable. 



SANITARY PACKAGES OF TOYS AND BALLOONS 



Parents who hesitate to buy their children the rubber toys and 

 balloons hawked about in the dust of street or store will welcome 

 the "Faultless" sanitary balloon or toy packages which have re- 

 cently been placed on the market. The contents of these packages 

 of rubber toys and balloons are not touched from factory to 

 child, thus eliminating many sources of contamination and pos- 

 sible disease. The balloons are sealed in transparent envelopes ; 

 the toys come assorted in three sizes of boxes, to retail at dif- 

 ferent prices according to size. To dealers each box represents 

 a unit of sale that is easily checked up, stocked, displayed and 

 sold. — The Faultless Rubber Co., Ashland, Ohio. 



