Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1910 — BLAME PAPER TRUST. [ARTICLE]

BLAME PAPER TRUST.

Consolidation of Business Has Produced Three Paper Panics In Three Years —Only an Open Market Will Save the Situation. Woe to the industry that becomes doifiinated by a trust! The newspapers of the country are just now piteously deploring the hard fate that has made then) dependent upon oue woueern -the International Paper company for their supply of print paper. A strike has occurred in the mills <>f the company, and of course the Output has been reduced, with the result that the publishers are paying higher prices and are not sure of their future supply even at that. Curiously enough, this is one of the very calamities that The trust was formed to prevent, according to the professions of- its promoters' at the time. “The International Paper company." says the committee on paper of tlie American Publishers' association. "started out with the assurance that by consolidating thirty mills un der one management it would .give the publishers a continuous and permanent supply which no oue mill could furnish. We have had three paper panics within three years, two of which have been due directly to the failure of t lie company to continually supply all of its customers.” _ « The paper trust has been unfortunate in its relations with its employee-; . The strike this year is an example of that We are told that the trust is struggling ’to train unskilled Jjiber for the places of the men who have' left its service to find employment in other mills. Speaking generally. it may be said that the labor em ployed by the mills controlled by the trust ,1s low priced and the vrork turned out is inefficient. The official chemist of the Association of Paper Manufacturers is quoted as saying that “a veiy large proportion of our paper manufacturers, most superintendents and nearly all Workers in the mill are making paper today with an almost mediaeval ignorance and disregard of the fundamental properties and relationship of the materials in which they work.” p Such is the result of “trustifying” the paper industry. No wonder the newspaper publishers are In rebellion against the trust and are asking to have Canadian paper admitted free of duty. . Millet and Hungarian seed at Eger Bros.