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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1, 1920. 



George A. Ludington, The Fisk Rubber Co. 



Van R. Cartmell, Kelly-Springfield Tire Co. 



A. B. Jones, The B. F. Goodrich Co. 



J. T. Johnstone, J. T. Johnstone & Co., Inc. 



W. T. liaird, Rubber Trading Co. 



Homer E. Sawyer, ex-officio. United States Rubber Co. 



BANQUET COMMITTEE. 



Horace UeLisscr, chairman, Ajax Rubber Co., Inc. 

 A. VV. Warren, Hodgman Rubber Co. 

 C. W. McLaughlin, Moliauk Rubber Co. 

 OUTING COMMITTEE. 



A. H. Brown, chairman, Meyer & Brown, Inc. 

 G. A. Ludington, The Fisk Rubber Co. 

 \V. O'Neil, C;cneral Tire & Rubber Co. 



Col. H. Stuart Hotchkiss, chairman. United Stales Rubber 

 Plantations, Inc. 



W. E. Bruyii, L. Littlejohn & Co., Inc. 



George B. Hodgman, Hodgman Rubber Co. 



Frederic C. Hood, Hood Rubber Co. 



W. J. Kelly, Poel & Kelly. 



Paul W. Litchfield, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 



Charles T. Wilson, Charles T. Wilson Co., Inc. 



Homer E. Sawyer, ex-officio. United States Rubber Co. 



COMMITTEE ON RUBBER AND KINDRED PRODUCTS. 



Charles T. Wilson, Charles T. Wilson Co., Inc. 



George B. Hodgman, Hodgman Rubber Co. 



Homer E. Sawyer, United States Rubber Co. 



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



Col. H. Stuart Hotchkiss, United States Rubber Plantatinns, 

 Inc. 



W. J. Kelly, Poel & Kelly. 



E. H. Huxley, United States Rubber Export Co., Limited. 



E. H. Broadwell, The Fisk Rubber Co. 



W. E. Bruyn, L. Littlejohn & Co., Inc. 



INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE. 



New York, February 18, 1920. 

 To firm and affiliated members : 



Referring to our two letters of December 26, respecting the 

 Industrial Relations Committee, particularly our letter asking 

 information respecting industrial relations organizations now 

 functioning in the organizations of all members: 



The replies received to our inquiry were very gratifying and 

 indicate clearly to your committee that there is a real opportunity 

 in the industry for cooperative work of this nature and particular- 

 ly for a medium through which ideas may be exchanged, in- 

 formation given respecting new developments, and assistance of- 

 fered and supplied wherever required. 



The interest in this work indicated by communications re- 

 ceived in response to our letter of inquiry prompts your com- 

 mittee to make a further statement of purpose with respect to 

 its work, and to adopt working principles that shall constantly 

 remind the committee and members of the high standard we 

 hope to attain. 



As representatives of the rubber industry of the United States 

 and Canada, are we sure, in so far as our relations with our em- 

 ployes are concerned, that our house is in order? 



The rubber industry to-day ranks among the largest industries 

 in the country and its place in industrial life is becoming more 

 important each year. Your association wishes to cooperate with 

 you in adopting industrial relations policies that will make the 

 rubber industry the best in the country for all those whose liveli- 

 hood depends upon it. This large and rapidly growing industry 

 may well bend its efforts toward working out the proper relations 

 between employer and employe with happiness and contentment 

 of worker and management as the outstanding objective. If such 

 a condition is created in our industry it will be a very positive 

 factor in removing causes which result in industrial unrest 

 throughout the whole country and will set a very wholesome 

 example to all other employers. 



Let us adopt for our slogan, "The Rubber Industry Foremost 

 IN Industrial Relations." 



The results which we are endeavoring to accomplish can come 



only through the sincere interest and cooperation of every mem- 

 ber of the Rubber Association and it is expected that on such 

 an important matter every member will aid in the work of the 

 Industrial Relations Committee by sending in subjects for dis- 

 cussion, investigation and report. 



The maintenance of harmonious and helpful industrial rela- 

 tions ranks in importance with production, distribution, finance 

 and other important functions of management. This is just as 

 true of the small concern as it is of the large one. 



Believing in this as a fundamental, your Industrial Relations 

 Committee, desiring to serve your interests, asks you to advise 

 us on the attached return postcard, the name of the official of 

 your organization who siipervises or who will supervise this im- 

 portant work, an executive with whom we may correspond on 

 these matters. 



A. L. ViLES, General Manager. 



THE OBITUARY RECORD. 

 SECRETARY OF AN OLD TRENTON RUBBER COMPANY. 



A I.FRED Whitehead, secretary and general manager of the 

 •«»■ Whitehead Brothers Rubber Co., Trenton, \ew Jersey, died 

 of pnenmoira February 3, 1920, at his home, 16 Perdicaris avenue, 

 Trenton, aged 67 years. 



Son of the late John and Mar- 

 tha Whitehead, Alfred White- 

 head was born in 1853 in the 

 Whitehead farmhouse on White- 

 head's Road, w^here he lived most 

 of his life. His parents died dur- 

 ing his childhood and he was 

 brought up by his uncle. Upon 

 completing his elementary educa- 

 tion in the country schools, he 

 went to work, at the age of six- 

 teen, in the Whitehead Brothers' 

 rubber factory, then conducted by 

 his uncle and other relatives, but 

 formerly owned by his father. 

 From a minor position he ele- 

 vated himself to the manager- 

 ship of the plant and was ad- 

 mitted as a member of the firm when the business was incor- 

 porated in 1892, later being elected secretary. 



He was a director of the Trenton Banking Co., a trustee of 

 the Fourth Presbyterian Church, a member of the advisory board 

 of the Union Industrial Home, and a trustee of the Y. M. C. A. 

 He contributed li'berally to charitable institutions and the various 

 war drives held in Trenton. In 1919 he was chairman of the 

 Trenton rubber manufacturers' Salvation Army drive. 



In addition to his wife, Pauline W. Whitehead, he is survived 

 by two brothers, Horace and John, and a twin sister, Agnes 

 Whitehead, who is a missionary in India. 

 Interment was in the family plot in Trenton. 



FOUNDER OF THE DIAMOND RUBBER CO. 



-Although Ohio Columbus Barber is best known as the "Match 

 King" and the chief energies of his very active life were de- 

 voted, first to the successful development of his own match fac- 

 tory in .'Vkron, Ohio, and later to the amalgamation of the match 

 business in the United States and the English-speaking world, 

 it was almost inevitable that he should take a deep interest in 

 rubber also, should help develop that industry from almost the 

 beginning of its expansion. 



-As his name indicates he was an Ohio product, born and 

 reared at East Akron where his father's match factory was sit- 

 uated. He lived there all his life from the year of his birth, 

 184J, to that of his death, 1920. It was there and in the town 

 he built out of it, Barberton, that he carried on his business and 

 saw develop before his eyes the the amazing growth of the rub- 

 ber industry in the district around him. He had foresight and 

 shrewdness to take a hand in that and as early as 1893, when 

 the bicycle tire was making its influence felt he induced some 



-Alfred WHiTEHE-.\D. 



