June 1, 1917.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



541 



Summarizing the matter as briefly as possible, it is submitted : 

 First. That the tarit¥ duties imposed by Section 1,000 of the 

 House bill have no logic or just place in the scheme of taxa- 

 tion proposed, and should be entirely eliminated from the bill. 

 Second. That tariff duties upon raw material are wholly in- 

 imical to the welfare of American industry and impose a bur- 

 den upon the manufacturing agencies of this country at a time 

 wlien the whole nation stands in need of their greatest strength 

 and support. 



Third. The levy of a tariff duty upon crude rubber, an article 

 of such vital necessity wholly produced outside of the United 

 States, will have a strong tendency to curtail importations, and 

 thus produce a shortage of crude rubber in the United States. 

 Fourth. The excise tax imposed by Section 600 of the House 

 bill upon automobile, motorcycle and bicycle tires of 5 per 

 centum of the price at which these tires are sold by the pro- 

 ducer, manufacturer or importer, while just in itself and the 

 subject of no complaint standing alone, is as the bill is drawn 

 tantamount to double taxation. 



Fifth. The Ways and Means Committee, having provided 

 successfully for $1,600,000,000 of revenue by means of income, 

 e.xcess profits and consumption taxes, the Congress is not war- 

 ranted in taking up and dealing with the tariff upon importa- 

 tions of all kinds in order to raise the balance of $200,000,000 

 of revenue, especially when this revenue could in large measure 

 be provided for by a further extension of the excise and excess 

 profits taxes. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Legisl.\tive Committee. 



Frederic C. Hood. Chairman ; 



H. STU.A.RT Hotchkiss, 



George B. Hodgman, 



Frank A. Seiberling, 



Harvey S. Firestone. Ex-officio ; 



Harry S. Vorhis, Secretary-. 



.■\SS0CI.4TTOX WINS FLITZ CONSPIRACY SUIT. 



The decision in the case of Ludwig Blitz v. The Rubber Con- 

 trol Committee, by which a verdict w-as returned for the de- 

 fendant, is a most important victory for the American rubber 

 trade, as it has resulted in a complete vindication of the acts 

 of The Rubber Association of America. 



This suit was brought in the fall of 1915, the plaintiff' alleg- 

 ing his crude rubber business was ruined by the defendant to 

 the extent of $100,000. The testimony of Sir Francis Hapwood, 

 Lord of the British .A.dmiralt}', and Sir Nathaniel Highmore, 

 Secretary of the \\'ar Trade Department, being taken last win- 

 ter in London. The testimony of Sir Richard Crawford, 

 K.C.M.G.. Commercial Advisor of the British Embassy, was 

 taken in Washington. D. C. Tlie jury trial was heard by Su- 

 preme Court Justice Cropsey, in Brooklyn, May 14-19. In sum- 

 ming up his charge to the jury, tlie Judge said: "That the 

 only point for you to decide is the exceedingly simple one 

 of whether or not these men (the defendants) have wrong- 

 fully, unlawfully or wilfully- conspired together to injure the 

 plaintiff." After being out about a half hour, the jury re- 

 turned a verdict for the defendants. 



Attorneys for the defendants were Cliarles Keave. Llerbert 

 Smyth and Sidney S. Meyer. For the plaintiff, Francis L 

 Tierney. 



XEW MEMIiERS. 



At tlie meeting of the Executive Committee, May 14, the fol- 

 lowing firm and associate members were elected: 



Firm Members. 



C. n. ^^'right, Racine Auto Tire Co., Racine, Wisconsin. 



Vuji Nagashima, Mitsui & Co.. Limited, San Francisco, California. 



James Meade. Meade Rubber Co., Stoughton, Massachusetts. 



H. M. Dannebaum, The .Schwarzwaelder Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 



Lester D. Gardner. The Cardner. Moffat Co.. Inc., New York City. 



A. E. Gordon, Gryj>hon Rubber Tire Corp., New York City. 

 William A. Sweet. Hardmnn Tire & Rubber Co.. New York City. 



Robert D. Landrum, The Harshaw, Fuller & Goodwin Co., Columbus, Ohio. 



H. L. Green, The G. Mathes Co.. New York City. 



L. PI. Firey, The Star Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 



LeRoy Clark. The Safety Insulated Wire & Cable Co., New Y'ork City. 



B. C. Tunison, The East Palestine Rubber Co.. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 

 Clias. G. Gates or John G. Gates, Colorado Tire & Lcatlier Co., Denver, 



Colorado. 

 Joseph Chalfire or A. Boardman, Joseph Chalfire, New Y'ork City. 

 Ed. C. Griffith, H. A. Demarest or K. G. Johnston, Beacon Tire Co., New 



Y'ork City. 

 B. Reysnider, .Aluminum Flake Co., Akron, Ohio. 



W. O'Neil, The General Tire Sc Rubber Co.. Akron. Ohio. 

 L. F. Smith, The .'\mazon Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio. 

 Henry L. Houk. The American Rubber & Tire Co., Akron, Ohio. 



Tk\nsferred from Associ.^te to Firm Membership. 



Warren MacPherson, Cambridge Rubber Co., Cambridge, Massachusetts. 



Paul Loewenthal, The Loewenthal Co.. Brooklyn, New York. 



R. M. Loewenthal. R. M. Loewenthal Co., New York City. 



Calvert B. Archer, Archer-Strauss Rubber Co., Framingham, Massachusetts. 



Associ.\te Member. 



William 0. Cutter, United States Rubber Co., New York City. 



NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE. 

 \'an H. Cartmell, president of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., 

 New York City, was delegated to represent the Rubber As- 

 sociation at the meetings of the National Lidustrial Conference 

 to be held at Boston, Massachusetts. Frederic C. Hood, Hood 

 Rubber Co., Watertown, Massachusetts, was delegated to serve 

 as the other member. 



.\NNUAL OUTING MAY NOT BE HELD. 

 Due to the war and the consequent activities of the rubber 

 trade in more serious matters, the Outing Committee has recom- 

 mended that tlie Annual Outin.g should be abandoned this year 

 and the money, usually subscribed for that purpose, be contrib- 

 uted to the Red Cross or some equally worthy cause. 



W \R CLAUSE FOR ORDERS AND CONTRACTS. 



The Rubber Sundries Manufacturers' Division and the 

 Mechanical Rubber Goods Manufacturers' Division have adopted 

 the following war clause to apply on orders and contracts : 



Due to present extraordinary conditions in this country it is 

 understood and agreed that if, during any period of this con- 

 tract or order, the seller makes a general reduction in his 

 prices for the merchandise described herein, it will give the 

 purchaser the benefit of such reduction of prices on any un- 

 filled portion of said contract or order. Likewise, if the cost 

 of manufacture of said merchandise increases, it is further 

 understood and agreed that the seller shall have the right 

 to notify the purchaser of advances in prices on- all unfilled por- 

 tions of the contract or order, whereupon the purchaser shall 

 promptly notify the seller either of the acceptance of said ad- 

 vance in prices or the balance of the contract or order shall 

 thereupon be cancelled. 



It is agreed that the order is accepted on the understanding 

 that delivery be made at or as near the time specified as manu- 

 facturing conditions will permit. 



All prices are subject to any import duties or revenue taxes 

 which may be imposed and which shall be for the account of 

 the buyer. 



CRUDE RUBBER SALES CONDITIONS. 



The rules and regulations adopted by The Rubber Association 

 of America, Inc., to govern transactions between buyers and 

 sellers of crude rubber have been published in pamphlet form and 

 distributed to the members. These rules and regulations follow 

 very closely the draft published in The India Rubber World 

 (.February 1, 1917, page 256). one or two unimportant changes 

 being made in several sections. Rule 3, however, is materially 

 changed and now reads as follows : 



3. Where a parcel of rubber is sold with a description of 

 quality inferior to that specified in Rule 1. Section A, and upon 

 delivery is found inferior to the description in whole or in part, 

 then the buyer must accept the same with allowance, provided 

 such allowance in the opinion of the arbitrators, be not more 

 than two cents per pound on the inferior portion ; but should the 

 allowance be more than two cents per pound the parcel in whole 

 or in part may be rejected and the seller may substitute proper 

 quality to fulfil his contract at the original point of delivery in 

 the United State.s of America or Canada or at the Port of New 

 York within ten days from the time of rejection or within the 

 time for delivery as the case may be. In case the seller does not 

 replace, the buyer at his option may cancel the contract, or buy 

 and charge the difference, if any, to the seller. 



ENLISTMENT COMMITTEE FOR NEW YORK. 

 One of the most practical and important committees of the 

 Rubber Association is that on Enlistments in the National 

 Guard of the State of New York, consisting of W. G. Ryckman, 

 W. G. Ryckman Co., Inc., New York City, chairman ; Amedce 

 Spadone, Gutta Percha & Rubber Manufacturing Co., New 



