A survey of the trade in rubber manufactured goods

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Identifikator:: 1848834152

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-240944

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: A survey of the trade in rubber manufactured goods

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 119 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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119 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. (6928—2a) Wt. P 2889 ~T792/1R07 7.500 4/30 P.5t. G.3

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