THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



Activities of The Rubber Association of America. 



ASSOCIATION MEETINGS. 



THE REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS of the Executive Commit- 

 tees of the Foreign Trade Division. Mechanical Rubber 

 Goods Division, Tire Manufacturers' Division and the In- 

 dustrial Relations Committee were held during Februao'. but 

 the matters handled were of a routine nature. 

 TRAFFIC COMMITTEE. 



The Traffic Committee is handling with the United States 

 Railroad Administration several matters of importance to the 

 industry, and particularly the application to the Consolidated 

 Classification Committee at Chicago for reduced carload ratingj 

 on guayule rubber and the less carload and carload rates on 

 rubber compounds. The Traffic Committee was given a special 

 hearing at Chicago on Friday, February 20, and a favorable de- 

 cision is expected. 



There is now pending before the same committee an applica- 

 tion for a reduction from one and one-half times first class to 

 first class on pneumatic tires in less carloads on all kinds of 

 packages, which is a very important subject to the tire manu- 

 facturing industry. The application is predicated to a certain 

 extent upon the greatly increased use of paper for the wrapping 

 of tires. 



An application is now before the Western Classification Com- 

 mittee at Chicago for a reduction in the ratings on crude rub- 

 ber from first class L. C. L. to second-class, and from second- 

 class C. L. to fourth class. 



.'\n application to the Consolidated Classification Committee 

 is being prepared for the establishment of a rule permitting the 

 mixing of mechanical rubber goods and other general lines of 

 rubber goods in carloads, on the basis of third-class, carload 

 minimum weight thirty thousand pounds. If this application is 

 granted it will have the effect of permitting jobbers to secure 

 complete stocks of goods at a considerable reduction in the 

 present rate and will enable them to order more advantageously. 



A recent accomplishment of the Traffic Committee was to 

 secure the adoption in the Virginia Slate Classification of a pro- 

 vision for the acceptance of pneumatic tires in wrapped bales 

 or bundles. Heretofore the classification was restricted to tires 

 when shipped in crates. 



.^n application will be submitted to the Consolidated Classi- 

 fication Committee for a more flexible provision in the specifi- 

 cations for rubber hose, which will not be so restrictive as to 

 the kind of paper to be used for wrapping hose. 



There will be filed shortly with the State Public Utilities 

 Commission of Illinois an application for a reduction in the 

 carload rating on rubber footwear for movement between points 

 in the State of Illinois or points governed by the Illinois State 

 Classification. The present classification provides for first class 

 on this commodity in any quantity and the application asks for 

 a reduction in carload rates to second class minimum, carload 

 weight twenty thousand pounds, the same as applicable in in- 

 trastate movements. 



ELECTION OF MEMBERS. 



The following new members of the .Association were elected 

 during the last few weeks : 



FIRM MEMBERS. 



Ames Holden Tire Co., Limited, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 

 Firm representative, Talmon H. Rieder. 



Emery Manufacturing Co., 43 Main street, Bradford, Penn- 

 sylvania. Firm representative, W. A. McCafferty. 



Rotary Tire & Rubber Co., Zanesville, Ohio. Firm repre- 

 sentative, Edward O. Sterns. 



Universal Tire & Rubber Co., San Francisco, California. Firm 

 representative, George M. Stevens. 



Duffy & Sears, 133 Front street. New York City. Firm rep- 

 resentative, Stephen H. Sears. 



Thornett & Fehr, Inc., 66 Broadway, New York City. Firm 

 representative, Henry G. Perry. 



Syracuse Rubber Co., Inc., Syracuse. New York. Firm rep- 

 resentative, G. R. Loggie. 



Trent Rubber Co., Trenton, New Jersey. Firm representative, 

 Henry A. Ludeke. 



Hardy & MacArthur, 82 Beaver street. New York City. Firm 

 representative, R. S. Hardy. 



Parker Tire & Rubber Co., Indianapolis, Indiana. Firm rep- 

 resentative, Paul P. Parker. 



Osborn Engineering Co., Cleveland. Ohio. Firm representa- 

 tive, B. L. Green. 



ASSOCIATE MEMBERS. 



Herbert L. Baxter, Hood Rubber Co. 



Robert L. Tonner, Hood Rubber Co. 



Robert Muir, Hood Rubber Co. 



Robert S. Quinby, Hood Rubber Co. 



Edmund S. Kochersperger, Hood Rubber Co. 



\V. B. Wiegand, Ames Holden Tire Co., Limited. 



Claude M. Butler. Syracuse Rubber Co. 



William E. Greer, Syracuse Rnliber Co. 



STANDING COMMITTEES FOR 1920-1921. 

 NOMINATING COMMITTEE. 



The following committees have been appointed by the Exec- 

 utive Committee of the Association: 



Harvey S. Firestone, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 

 George B. Hodgman, Hodgman Rubber Co. 

 Bertram G. Work, The B. F. Goodrich Co. 

 Frederic C. Hood, Hood Rubber Co. 

 Henry C. Pearson, The Indi.v Rubber World. 



SPECIAL JOINT EXCISE TAX COMMITTEE. 



Charles Ncave, chairman. 



Kennedy M. Thompson, LTnited States Rubber Co. 



F. C. VanCleef. The B. F. Goodrich Co. 



Bernard M. Robinson, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. 



C. L. Landon, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 



W. B. Stratton, The Fisk Rubber Co. 



J. C. Weston, Ajax Rubber Co., Inc. 



F. I. Reynolds, Empire Rubber & Tire Corp. 



.\. A. Garthwaitc, Lee Rubber & Tire Co. 



W. E. Pouse, General Tire & Rubber Co. 



E. S. Hochersperger, Hood Tire Co. 

 Herbert H. Maas, Ajax Rubber Co., Inc. 



STATISTICAL COMMITTEE. 



R. S. Butler, United Stales Rubber Co. 

 W. C. Arthur, The B. F. Goodrich Co. 



F. M. Bogardus. The Fisk Rubber Co. 



LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE. 



Charles Neave, chairman, general counsel of The Rubber As- 

 sociation of America, Inc. 

 F. C. Van Cleef, The B. F. Goodrich Co. 

 Ernest Hopkinson, L'nited States Rubber Co. 



AUDITING COMMITTEE. 

 F. A. Seaman, Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. 

 W. J. Kelly, Poel & Kelly. 



ARBITRATION COMMITTEE. 



Horace Del.isscr, chairman. .Ajax Rubber Co., Inc. 

 .\ndrew H. Brown, Meyer & Brown, Inc. 



