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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



(January 1, 1920. 



Activities of the Rubber Association of America. 



THE DIVISION MEETINGS of The Rubber Association of America 

 held during December were devoted to routine matters 

 and the business necessary in anticipation of the annual 

 elections to be held early in January. 



Active preparations are being made for the coming annual 

 meetings and the 20lh annual dinner of the Association, that vifill 

 undoubtedly be the largest and most representative gathering 

 of rubber men known to rubber history. 



STATISTICS OF THE RUBBER INDUSTRY. 



Xevv York, December 16, 1919. 

 To all manufacturers of rubber products and reclaimed rubber: 



There is enclosed an analysis of the statistics compiled from 

 the returns to Questionnaire No. 100 covering the total average 

 daily number of employes, total sales value of production and 

 classified consumption of crude rubber, during the year 1918. 



This data is sent you with a new Questionnaire, No. 101, en- 

 closed with my letter of this date, as a report to which our 

 members arc entitled by reason of their support in supplying 

 statistics for individual companies, from which this compilation 

 of totals was made. 



vering the brsl half of the year 



herewith Questionnaire 101, 

 1919. 



It is intended that a questionnaire similar to No. 101 (sub- 

 rnitted herewith) will be sent out every six months. This ques- 

 tionnaire has been carefully prepared in order to reduce to a 

 minimum the information desired, but at the same time to pro- 

 vide the basis for a comprehensive picture of the whole in- 

 dustry. In designing the questionnaire, your directors and their 

 special committee on statistics have had in mind the desirability 

 of accumulating every half-year the sort of information which 

 is now^ collected every five years by the Government in the 

 Census of Manufactures, so that we shall have at all times re- 

 cently collected statistics which will indicate the size and im- 

 portance of our industry. 



The desirability of there being available statistics which ac- 

 curately reflect conditions in the rubber industry and the rela- 

 tion of that industry to the commerce of the country is very 

 pronounced in connection with work such as that which will 

 be undertaken by a special joint legislative committee, compris- 

 ing several factors in the automotive industry, at the instance 

 of the Tire Divisions of this Association, with the approval of 

 the Executive Committee. The enactment of Federal and State 

 legislation which in any way concerns the interest of oiir tire 



ANALYSIS OF STATISTICS COMPILED FROM ftTJESTIONNAIKE NO. 100. 



Average Total Daily Numeer of I 



103 Manu- 

 facturers. 



Actual 

 Reported 



Total. 

 151,078 



Actual 

 Reported 



Percentage 



Relation of 



Total 103 Mfrs. to 



Total 452 Mfrs. 



103 Manu- 

 facturers. Actual 

 Reported Total 

 Same Mfrs. as 

 Reported 1917. 

 148,787 



h total of 103 ma: 



1918. 



425 Manufactu 



jcrease 1918 

 nder 1917. 

 3.896 



rers in 1917) 



Sale 



452 Manu- 

 facturers. 



Reported 



Value. 



$895,816,248 



Reported Valu 

 Same Mfrs. as 

 Reported 1917 

 $819,159,105 



452 Ma 



Estimated 



Value. 



$1,122,135,760 



(See note) 



total of 452 man 



Pounds of Cride Ri-bber Used. 



Per Per cent 

 cent of of De- 

 Increase crease Per Per 

 Estimated 1918 1918 cent cent 

 for over under to total to total 

 Products 1917. 1918. 1917. 1917. 1918. 1917. 



Casings under 6 inches. 162,643.482 140.021,023 13.91 43.40 53.13 



Tubes under 6 inches. 35,704,446 32.902,135 7.85 10.20 11.67 



Solid tires 25,055,673 50,024,166 99.65 15.51 B.19 



Other tires and tire 



sundries 9,983,195 14,221,023 42.44 4.41 3.26 



Tires, totals 233,386,796 237.168,347 1.62 73.52 76.25 



Mechanical goods 21,857,385 22,101,528 1.12 6.S5 7.14 



Boots and shoes 26,823.689 31,468,843 17.32 9.75 8.76 



Other products 24,045.782 31,867,887 32.53 9.88 7.85 



Grand totals 306.113,652 322,606.605 5 39 lOO.OO 100. OO 



It is being distributed, however, regardless of whether or not 

 a response to Questionnaire No. 100 was made by your com- 

 pany, but it is to be understood that, beginning with the en- 

 closed Questionnaire No. 101, a compilation of the statistics will 

 be sent only to those companies who furnish the data called for. 

 A. L. ViLES, General Manager. 



QUESTIONNAIRE NO. 101. 



New York. December 17, 1919. 

 To all manufacturers of rubber products and reclaimed rubber: 

 In furtherance of the plan for collecting basic figures regard- 

 ing the rubber industry, submitttd to you by your directors on 

 March 24, 1919, and approved by the membership through their 

 favorable replies to the letter of that date, we are submitting 



manufacturers is to be carefully watched, with a view to' make 

 it possible to keep abreast of developments of this kind, and in 

 this connection the statistics which are to be secured by ques- 

 tionnaires, such as the enclosed, will doubtless be of inestimable 

 value. 



The traffic and transportation interests of our members is 

 given a great deal of attention by the Traffic Committee of the 

 Association which knows, from much experience in dealing with 

 the Railroad Administration and the officers of the individual 

 carriers prior to Federal control, that if the rubber industry, 

 through tliis Association, is able to produce accurate and com- 

 prehensive data concerning the industry in support of or in 

 opposition to contemplated, railroad legislation with respect to 

 rates, rules, classifiralion, etc.. the influence thus brought to bear 

 ihrough the presentation of facts and figures is a very valuable 

 factor in the strengthening of the position of the rubber in- 

 dustry. 



Arrangements have been completed whereby the Guaranty 

 Trust Company of New York will serve as the statistical agent 

 of The Rubber Association in collecting the data requested in 

 The Rubber Association questionnaires. These questionnaires 

 are to be returned to the Guaranty Trust Company of New Y'ork, 

 which then consolidates the individual returns, and submits ihe 

 total figures only to The Rubber -\s?ociation. together with a list 

 of the firm members who have cooperated in making the total 

 figures possible. The total figures only will be published by the 

 Rubber .Association, and will be sent only to the firm members 

 who have made returns for their companies. 



The Guaranty Trust Company will use all possible caution to 

 insure secrecv for the individual returns which it receives, and 

 manufacturers can make these returns with entire confidence 



