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Show TARIFF BOARD MAKES REPORT WASHINGTON. May 17 Presldont Taft today sent lo the senute the tariff tar-iff board's full report of Itu investi gntion of the pulp and news' fnlnt paper pa-per industry fn the United States and Canada' "" ' ' ' Summarised' briefly, the report fcays a ton of news' print paper is made In Canada for $6 35 less than It is made In the Uuitcd Stales. The average Canadian cost Ib given as $27 SU and Hiq average c()st in tf'C- United Stjitos at $32 8S, The duty under the present pres-ent tariff Is fi 7i5. The document presents oxtQnsivo tables, comparisons and other tabulations tabula-tions It Is said to bo the moat complete com-plete thing of the kind over attempted attempt-ed Tho entlro force of the tariff board has been engaged upon it for months Sceral factors entorlng Into the In creased cost pf manufacture In. the' united States aro, taken up exhaustively exhaus-tively In the.-repoj-L ThepHrtclpal increases are said, to ,be Uue.txfnhe fact that a top qf pulp wdod costs nearly twice as much An the Uijlted States as It doeri In Canada nd 'pint many of the American mills hav much older and much less, efficient equipment tbanhe (Ja'uadjjH mills, r 2 tCo8t"o$Libon Dlff erL ttlef i Vtfhc cpstof Jhibor fn the two countries coun-tries iif flhovvn&t6v differ very llttlej Taking all tho Items Into ctyisjd-r eratlon aB tho report enumerates thorn, the comparative cost follows: Tho1 average cost of a ton of ground .wood pulp In bulk at a mill In the United States is 514.59 and in Can-ada Can-ada ?9.56. Tho total cost of a ton ol aulphltc fibre in the United States is 53139 and in Canada .$20.47. Tho total materials entering into tho manufacture of a ton of news print paper In Canada are shown at S1G.89 and In the United States $22 7-1 The labor cost of a ton of paper in the Unitod States Is shown to be $3.27 and In Canada $3.19. All other allowances allow-ances for manufacturing costs In tho Unitod States are $(r.S7 and In Canada Can-ada $7.45. Labor costs In all the Items are very closely alike. One feature of the report shows j that the cost of manufacturing news print paper in tho United States var-iOB var-iOB very 'widely TJie lowest cost recorded re-corded Is $24 50 a ton; the highest, $43.00 From this, the board Btrjkes an average of $32.88. ' Cost of Production. At the Canadian mills tho lowest price recorded for producing a ton of news print paper is $21.97 and the highest $30.18. Average, $27.53. In treating on the subject of the labor efficiency In Canada, the report says: "It would seem, then, with modern mills, Ameiican machinery, American trained managers and superintendents and American skilled operatives, together to-gether with lower rate6 of wages for unskilled men, tho Canadian manufacturing manufac-turing labor cost per unit of production produc-tion lu the modern and woll equipped mills of Canada would be considered lower than In tho modern and well equipped mills of the United States. Canadian Labor Lower. Tho tables show, however, that the Canadian labor cost per ton of news print paper Is only slightly lower on the average. That 41.5 per cent of tho tonnage in the United States carries car-ries a manufacturing labor cost of loss thau ?3 per ton, while 54 7 per cent In Canada falls under $3. Tho total average for the United States Is $3.27, as against $3 10 In Cana'da's advantage In average equipment. This indicates there Ib groator efficiency and experience in tho first class mills of the United Statos Regarding American Am-erican labor, the report says: "The wages In the groups of occu-"pntions occu-"pntions In which the proportion of 'skilled employes Is large aB, for example, ex-ample, occupation in news print paper mills aro shown to be higher in Canada Can-ada than in the lake states, while the contrary Is true of the wages in the groups of occupations in which most of the employes do work requiring little lit-tle skill or training This is probably due to a relative scarcity In Canada of skilled workers " Tho board's report makes no at-'iempt at-'iempt to go Into the subject of profits pro-fits of news print paper mills, but it refers to It in treating on depreciation. |