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Show TARIFF BOARD'S REPORT ON PULP AND NEWS PRINT PAPER INDUSTRY r WASHIKOTON. " May ' II. Preaident Tart has sent to the senste the tariff beard' fall report of Ita Investigation of the pulp and news print paper Industry Is the United atatee and Canada. - aransarlaed briefly, the report says a ton ef news print paper as snad la Caa-ad Caa-ad for M M leas) than It Is made la the United ate tee. The a versa Canadian oust la given as itr.U and the average corn In the United atatee at HI U. The duty under the preeent tariff la H.TI. The document praeente eatenetve tables, comparisons end.eher tabulattone. It la said to be the meet complete thing ef the kind ever attempted. The entire forte of the tariff board baa been engaged en-gaged upon It for months. ftevaral factors entering Into the Increased In-creased coat of manufacture In the United atatee are taken up-exheuetlvely In the report. The principal Increases are aald to be due to the fact that a ton of pulp wood costs nearly twice aa much In the ynltcd atajts M It goes lp..j,"spsly. find. that many of the American mills bsve much older end much lees efficient equipment equip-ment then the Canadian mills. Costa About the Bam. The cost of labor In the two countries la shown to differ little. Tsklng all the Heme Into consideration considera-tion ea the report enumerate them the comparative coet follows : The averege coet nf a ton of ground wood pulp at a mill In the United Ktatee le M.ts snd In Canada It la M. The total coet of a ton of sulphite fiber In the United State la Mi l and In Canada It Is 12. 4. The totel materials entering Into the manufacture of a ton of newe print paper In Canada are shown as til and In the United atatee ee t:i.T4. The lehor coet of a ton of paper In the United Btatee la shown to be U I and In I'm-aria I'm-aria M l All other ellewencee for manufacturing manu-facturing costs In the United Statee are M IT and In Canada 17.4s. Labor coeta In all the Items concerned run very closely close-ly ellke. One feature of the report ehowe that the coet of manufacturlna newe print paper pa-per In the United Btatee vertee widely. The lowest coet recorded la Kl M a ton: the highest le Ita. From this the tariff board strlkee en average of fill. At the Canedtan mills the lowest price recorded for producing a ton of news print paper le 114.17 and the highest le MM. The eversge Is 457. U. In accounting for the Increased coet of the piitp wood It Is shown at an American Ameri-can mill the averege coet for a ton of wood for ground wood pulp la $10.11: In Canada M 70. Pulp In Cheaper. The averege mat of fha ground wood pulp entering into a ton of newe print peper In the United Btatee la given at 111 27; Canadian value 11.41. The average av-erage eoet of the etilphlte fiber In a ton of peper at a mill In the t'nlted Ptatee le given at $.!; Caneda 17.41; manufacturing manu-facturing labor In the United Btatee 11.17. and In caneda IS II. In treating upon the subject of the labor efacleney la Canada th report lt would la then, with" modern mllle. American machinery. Amerlcen trained menagera and eupertntendents and American ekllled eperatlvee, together togeth-er with lower ratee of wage for unskilled un-skilled men. th Cenadlaa manufacturing manufactur-ing labor coet per unit of production In the modern and well equipped mllle of Canada, weuld be considerably lower thaa In the modern and well equipped l mills of the Vnited Btatee." The tableo ehow. however, that the Canadian labor coot par ton of newe print paper le only allahtiy lower on the average. That 41.1 per cent of the ton-nege ton-nege in the t'nlted Rtelee carrlee a men-ufactnrlng men-ufactnrlng labor coet of leea than It per ton, while 14.7 per cent In Canada falls under II. The total average for the United Ptatee le 11.17. aa aaalnet II II In Canada's advantage In averege equipment. equip-ment. Thle Indlcatee there Is greater efficiency and experience In the flret-elase mllle of the United Htetee. Regarding American labor the report aays: The waaee In the groups of occupa-tlona occupa-tlona In which the proportion of ekilled employeee le lerge aa. for example, oc-cupetlon oc-cupetlon rn newe print paper mil's are ehown to be higher In Ceneda than tn the leke etatee. while the contrary la true nf the wegea In the groups of occupations oc-cupations In which most of the employeee em-ployeee do work requiring little eklll or training. Thle la probably due to a relative rel-ative scarcity In Canada of skilled work-ere." work-ere." The hoard's report make no attempt to go Into the eubtect of preflta of news print paper mllle. but It rofsr to It In treating on depreciation. |