THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[NoVEMBtR 1, 1918. 



ill preceding paraKrapti, but in no event shall the membei or his 

 aliemate have the power to cast more than one vote. 



Acceptance of membership on any Division Committee shall 

 be considered as carrying with it an obligation to attend com- 

 mittee meetings whenever held (or to send a qualified alternate), 

 to serve unselfishly and to make, whatever sacrifices are necessary 

 for the common good. 



Division Committee members should be selected from those 

 who are associated with the concerns with whom they are con- 

 nected in an official capacity when possible. 



MEETINGS. 



Meetings of Division Committees may be called by the Central 

 Committee; by the Division Chairman, or in his absence by the 

 vice-chairman, or through a request to the chairman in writing 

 by three members. 



PKOCEDUEE. 



At all Division Committee meetings, full and complete minutes 

 should be kept of the proceedings for a permanent record. A 

 copy of such minutes should be promptly forwarded to each 

 member of the Division, to the secretary and to each member 

 of the Central Committee. 



For the purpose of coordinating the various Divisions of the 

 War Service Committee and to prevent conflict, Division Com- 

 mittees should submit to the Central Committee for approval : 



(a) All questionnaires before subrnitting them to the trade 

 at large. 



( h > .\ny general communications to the trade or the Divi- 

 sioii-s regarding recommendations for the industry, and 



(c) All actions taken by Division Committees should be sub- 

 mitted to the Central Committee for approval before becoming 

 operative. 



-A brief but complete record of all actions taken at each Divi- 

 sion Committee meeting should be promptly sent out to all con- 

 cerns in the industry which the Committee represents as a 

 "Recommendation to the Central Committee." 



In view of the number of Division Committees which will 

 hold meetings at approximately the same time, it will be phy- 

 sically impossible for the Secretary of the War Service Com- 

 mittee to attend all these meetings. Therefore, each Division 

 Committee shall appoint a permanent secretary, who shall keep 

 all minutes and records. 



As it has been determined that there shall be no c.v-officio 

 representative of the Central Committee on any of the Divi- 



sion Committees, the chairman of each Division Committee 

 shall give proper notice to ihc War Service Committee, 52 

 N'anderbilt avenue. New York City, of the time and place of all 

 Division Committee meetings, in order that each member of the 

 Central Committee may be notified and may attend such meet- 

 ings if he so desires, it being the desire of the Central Com- 

 mittee that its members may be in as close touch as possible with 

 the work of the various Division Committees. 



Each Division Commiltco shall prepare, with the assistance 

 of the Secretary of the \\ ar Service Committee, a list of the 

 concerns whom it represents, and a proper mailing list should 

 be in the possession of each division chairman and secretary, as 

 well as in the New York and Washington offices. 



LABOR PRIORITY BULLETIN. 



The Committee notified all rubber manufacturers on Septem- 

 ber 30, that the following bulletin just received from the Pri- 

 orities Division, War Industries Board, Washington, District of 

 Columbia, was forwarded by the Department of Labor on the 

 26th instant to all District Boards : 



^^'AR Industries Bo.^RD, Priorities Division, Washington. 



LABOR priority BULLETIN NO. 2. 



To United States Employment Scrrice and All Industrial 

 Advisers: 



You are notified that ihe rubber manufacturers of the country 

 have reached an agreement with the Priorities Division of the 

 proper control by the War Industries Board. The Priorities 

 Division, deeming the remaining production to be essential, and 

 the industry as a whole under said curtailed program to be en- 

 titled to general preferential treatment, has certified it under the 

 designation ■'Rubl)er-plants engaged principally in manufacturing 

 rubber products," upon Preference List No. 2, giving it a rating 

 of Class IV. 



We ask that the Industrial Advisers bring this bulletin to the 

 attention of the District Boards for their information." 



Edwin B. Parker, 

 Priorities Commissioner. 



Washington, D. C, September 21, 1918. 



Should any manufacturer have difficulty through the failure 

 of the District Board to recognize the classification of the in- 

 dustry on the preference list, he should wire details to the sec- 

 retary of the War Service Committee of the Rubber Industry, 

 808 Colorado Building, Washington, District of Columbia, who 

 will imtnediately take the matter up with the proper govern- 

 mental department. 



REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE PRODUCTION OF RUBBER PRODUCTS, ISSUE NO. 1, OCTOBER 1, 1918. 



Although these regulations have been revised by the War Service 

 regulations U'ill be found 

 'T'HE regulations governing the production of rubber products, 

 •^ dated October 1, were distributed to the rubber industry by 

 the Committee on October 8, with the suggestion that each manu- 

 facturing concern deputize some one in its organization to pass 

 on all orders received and make application to the War Indus- 

 tries Board through the War Service Committee for approval 

 or rejection of all orders for articles which may be doubtful, 

 or have not been definitely approved. 



The regulations that follow are supplemental to War Indus- 

 tries Board Circular No. 24. (See The India Rubber World, 

 October I, 1918, page 12) and superseding War Service Com- 

 mittee letter of September 23, governing production for the 

 October-December period, 1918. (See The Ixdia Rubber 

 World, October 1, 1918, page 14.) 



The War Industries Board has instructed the War Service 

 Committee of the Rubber Industry to issue the following reg- 

 ulations for the purpose of defining the control program outlined 

 in Circular No. 24 Priorities Division of the \\'ar Industries 

 Board. 



Committee they are published as a matter of record. The nets.' 

 on page 74 of this issue. 



The production of all rubber products will be controlled under 



four general classifications a? to articles and their use, as follows : 



Class I. 



.Articles to be supplied on direct orders received from the 



following sources : 



Governmental departments. 

 Government-controlled railways. 

 Government-controlled express companies. 

 Government-controlled telephone companies. 

 Government-controlled telegraph companies. 

 The American Red Cross. 

 .Allied Governments (Official). 

 Class II. 

 -Articles to be supplied for use in industries approved by the 

 War Industries Board. These industries comprise, first, those at 

 present listed, or to be listed on preference lists issued or to be 

 issued by the Priorities Division of the War Industries Board, 

 nnd, second, those which, while not so listed, are adjudged or 



