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Italy.—8ix firms employ some 16,000 people in the aggregate. The
average wage is ahout 30s. for a week of 48 hours for men.
Average weekly wages: —
Men 135-140 lire.
Women 50 lire.
Boys and girls 50-55 lire.
Germony.—There are some 400 factories employing 25-30,000 people.
Average weekly wage for men in 1928 was 41 RM—£2 0s. 51d.

APPENDIX VII.
RESEARCH (JRGANISATIONS DEALING WITH RUBBER.

Furope.—Research Association of British Rubber Manufacturers, 105,
Lansdowne Road, Croydon. Supported by the trade, supplemented by
temporary Government grant on diminishing scale.

Government Institute for advising the Rubber Trade and the Rubber
Industry, Delft, Holland. Supported by Government.

Austrian Rubber Research Institute, 32, Rafaelgasse, Vienna. Supported
by leading members of the Rubber Industry.

Rubber Research Laboratory, Poland. Supported by Government.

Staatliches Materialprifungsamt, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany. State-
supported, not confined to rubber.

Asia.—Rubber Research Institute of Malaya, Ine., Kuala Lumpur,
F.M.S. Financed by contributions from the Governments of the Straits
Settlements and the Federated Malay States on the basis of an equivalent
of a cess of 10 cents a pikul on the exports of locally produced rubber.

Rubber Research Scheme (Ceylon), Peradeniya. Supported by a Govern-
ment grant (about 76,500 rupees) and subscriptions of members (about
33,000 rupees). Adoption of maintenance by a cess on rubber exports is
under consideration.

Four research stations in Java dealing with rubber are maintained by
the Algemeen Landbouw Syndicaat, or general Planters’ Association, en-
tirely by private subscription and voluntary levies: —

(1) The Rubber Research Institute at Buitenzorg.

(2) The Besoeki Testing Station, Djember, East Java, for tobacco.
rubber and coffee.

(3) A small general Testing Station at Salatiga, Central Java.

(4) Testing Station, Malang (rubber, coffee and other cultures).

A V.R.O.8. General Experimental Station. Medan, Sumatra, supported
by private subscriptions.

United Planters’ Association of Southern India, Madras. Supported by
private subscriptions and a Government grant. In addition to rubber.
it covers coffee, tea and other cultures.

America.—U.8. Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C. State supported.

American Society of Testing Materials, Philadelphia, U.S.A. Supported
by subscriptions of members.

Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, Pittsburgh, U.S.A. The Insti-
tute is part of the University of Pittsburgh. Supported by endowment
and grants and gifts from industry. (Not now working on rubber.)

Physical Testing Committee of Division of Rubber Chemistry of the
American Chemical Society. University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, U.S.A.
Supported by subscriptions of members and trade.

This list does not include laboratories maintained by rubber companies.

The Rubber Association of America, Inc., set aside a substantial sum
for rubber research. and the University of Akron has a well-equipped rubber
laboratory.
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