THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



I OCTOBKK 



1918. 



The important items are : 



I. Battery jars, including subni.trine jars and battery-jar accessories. 



:;. Sheet rod and tube for electrical |)urposes. 



.". Hard-rubber combs. 



4. Hard-rubber accessories for medical and surgical good*. 



5. Pipe bits. 



6. Fountain-pen parts. 



7. Automobile accessories. 

 3. Buttons. 



9. Pipes for conducting chemicals. 



10. Receptacles lor powder mills. 



11. Buckets for handling acids in chemical plants and powder mills. 



In addition to these there arc thousands of miscellaneous arti- 

 cles made from hard rubber which cannot be classified. 



Production ot the following liard-rubber articles has already 

 been discontinued by the principal manufacturers : 



Buttons (other than Navy buttons), Crochet hooks. 



Hairpins, Funnels, 



Pen holders. Caustic holders. 



Brush backs. Pocket flasks. 



Bowling balls. Tumblers, 



Koque balls. Cork-screw handles, 



IHick pin balls. Beer-glass stands, 



Cicar and cigarette holders, Beer scrapers. 



Rulers, inkstands, Beer shakers. 



Stethoscopes, Drug scoops. 



Ear trumpets. Suppositories, 



Teething rings. Thimbles, 



Hatch boxes. Tatting shuttles. 



JLctter openers, I'mbroidery rings. 



EXHIBIT D. 



Rl-liBER HeF.LS .\NP I'lEER SOLES. 



Use.^. — Ruliber heels and fiber soles are used in larye quanti- 

 ties both in the construction of new shoes and in the repair of 

 old ones. 



In the prist year approximately 75,000,000 pairs of ruliber 

 Tieels and 15.000,000 pairs of filler soles were made and used in 

 the United States alone. 



Both are used as a substitute for leather and both give longer 

 service than leather soles and heels, respectively. 



Rubber heels and fiber soles are used largely by working peo- 

 ple who stand upon their feet or walk while at work. 



Economies.— Shoes either made or repaired with rubber heels 

 and fiber soles are cheaper to the consumer than with the corre- 

 sponding leather parts. 



Fiber sole? have enabled the manufacturer of shoes to market 

 a serviceable product at a price within the reach of the laboring 

 ■classes. 



Fiber soles and rubber heels will wear from two to three times 

 as long as corresponding part< made from leather employed for 

 similar purposes. 



Consequently there is great economy both in labor and in 

 materials in the making and use of rubber heels and fiber soles, 

 for where heels and sol,es of leather are used they must be re- 

 moved and the shoes repaired two or three times as often as 

 where tlie rubber heels and fiber soles are used. 



Moreover, there is an initial saving in labor, since it requires 

 less labor to produce rubber heels and fiber soles than to produce 

 heels and soles of leather. 



About fifty per cent of the labor used at present in the pro- 

 ducing of rubber heels and fiber soles is female labor. 



There is a saving in steel (approxiiriately SO per cent) in the 

 ■use of the rubber heel. First, because it requires fewer nails 

 to attach the rubber heel and, second, because a set of nails em- 

 ployed to attach a rubber heel is used through the lives of two 

 or three sets of nails employed in attaching any other type of 

 heel. 



Rubber heels and fiber soles are made largely from by-prod- 

 ■ucts, including reclaimed rubber, which by-products do not oc- 

 cupy ship space. There is an adequate supply of such by- 

 products available which is not needed in the production of more 

 essential articles. 



If the production of rubber heels and fiber soles was cur- 

 tailed, leather would be substituted therefor and additional leather 

 for this purpose must be imported and. therefore, occupy much 

 ship space. 



Fiber soles and rubber heels are w^aterproof and eliminate the 

 necessity of using rubber shoes on many occasions. 



Precedent. — Great Britain has found it advisable to encourage 

 the making and use of rubber heels and fiber soles during the 



THE RUBBER INDUSTRY AN ESSENTIAL INDUS- 

 TRY OF CLASS C-4. 



THL following letter of September 23 was addressed to the 

 riiblier industry by the War Service Committee: 

 The War Service Committee of the Rubber Industry of the 

 United States presented a brief on Wednesday, September 11, 

 1918, to the Priorities Division of the War Industries Board with 

 the object of having the industry placed upon the preference list. 

 The Priorities Division has expressed its confidence in the 

 good faith of the rubber industry and subject to its agreement 

 to fulfill all requirements of the War Industries Board and the 

 War Trade Board has designated it an essential industry with a 

 classification of Class C-4. 



A bulletin, issued by the War Industries Board, designating 

 the classification of the rubber industry and a pledge to be signed 

 by each manufacturer is printed below. No manufacturer will 

 lie entitled to priorities on the preference list until he has signed 

 the pledge. 



WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD PRIORITIES DIVISION. 

 CIRCULAR No. 24. 

 To All Rubber yiainifact.irers: 



Div 



)f the War Industrie: 

 between your representatives and the uiulersiqn 

 lives of said board, has considered the status n( yc 

 for general preferential treatment and for ini.iriti 

 of materials, and has reached the following cone 

 A large part of the production of your indus 

 direct or indirect government uses or to supply 



in that production which in the national inter 

 nation's supply of fuel, transportation, labor and 

 inated. The representatives of your industry ha 

 ties Division the willingness of the industry as a i 

 non-essential production, and in its remaining pr 

 supplying only the current demand and to adf 





lii.ard, after conference 

 1 with other representa- 

 r industry and its claims 

 -in obtaining its supply 



y is cssenti'al either for 

 necessary industrial and 

 ment of non-essentiality 



material should be elim- 

 signified to the Priori- 

 lole to strip itself of this 

 It.ction to limit itself to 

 t all practical measures 

 il. labor, fuel and trans- 



The Priorities Division believes that if the production program herein- 

 after outlined is adopted and faithfully observed, the industry as a whole 

 may be said to be engaged in essential production under conditions entitling 

 it to preferential treatment in obtaining its supply of fuel, labor and 

 transportation, and to proper priority assistance in obtaining its supplies of 



rial. 



1. Each manufacturer shall conserv 

 iterials, fuel and labor; shall elimir 

 undesirable types, sizes and style 



to the greatest possible extent raw 

 te from its production unnecessary 

 of articles: and particularly shall 

 plan promulgated or approved 



by the Conservation Division of the War Industr 



2. Each manufacturer shall limit its production of each and every article 

 and item of production as near as may be to the current demand therefor; 

 shall carry stocks only in amounts reasonably necessary to insure the sup- 

 plying of current demands, and shall refrain from hoarding fuel, raw mate- 

 rial or finished or semi-finished products. 



3. Each manufacturer shall limit its items and amounts of production 

 for export to tho>e covered by export licenses issued by the War Trade 

 Board. 



PRODUCTION PROGRAM. 

 shall 



i soon as possible after completing the 

 dy in process, wholly eliminate from its 

 hich there is no essential use; and particularly 

 Indus- 



ise; and par 

 by the Wa; 



if the American Red 



4. Each mant 

 manufacture of ; 

 production all ar 



all articles designated or listed as of such a charactei 

 tries Board. 



5. No manufacturer shall produce or deliver any article except for such 

 essential uses as may be designated from time to time by the Priorities 

 Division of the Wai- Industries Board, and for the present to include the 

 following general uses: 



(a) For filling government orde 

 Cross. 



(h) I-'or furnishing supplies to railroads operated by the United States 

 Railroad .Administration. 



(c) For furnishing necessary supplies to preferred industries and plants, 

 as the same are included from time to time upon the preference list of 

 said Priorities Division. 



(d) For furnishing necessary supplies to those industries _ not listed 

 upon said preference list, but found by the said Priorities Division to be 

 more or less essential and allowed to operate under a curtailed or controlled 

 production program; but only to the extent that such supplies are neces- 

 sary to enable any such plant to produce in accordance with such program. 



(e) For civilian clothing and footwear (boots and shoes, rubber and 

 fiber heels and soles), to the extent of the present production and to supply 

 current demands only; the manufacturer to encourage conservation and 



medicinal 



demand, and subject to strict cc 



announced or approved by the Co 



itary purpc 



;s; to the extent of the current 

 with any conservation program 

 1 Division of the War Industries 



6. Using as a basis the production of automobile casings and tubes 

 under si-x inches for the eighteen months ended June 30, 1918 (not includ- 

 ing those invoiced on direct government orders during the same period), 

 the maximum production of such articles bv each manufacturer for the 

 last three months of 191S is fixed at 3/12 of 50 per cent (measured both 



