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stockholders in the Home Rubber Company and the Thermoid Rubber Com- 
pany, both of Trenton, N.J. It is fully equipped and engaged principally 
in the ‘manufacture of Hard Rubber or Vulcanite products, particularly 
containers used in the manufacture of Electric Storage Batteries. It is also 
extensively engaged in the production of moulded goods to specifications of 
Soft Rubber, Compositions and Bakelite. The works are modern and well 
squipped. y 
The Woodstock Rubber Company, Limited, Woodstock. 
The date of incorporation was 2nd July, 1926. Authorised capital, 
£51,600. Number of employees, 800. They manufacture rubber footwear 
only. This company is not affiliated with any other firm. 
APPENDIX VI. 
Information regarding money wages and hours of work in the rubber 
manufacturing industry in some of the principal producing countries. 
The purchasing power of money wages naturally varies in different 
countries, depending upon the habits of the different peoples, 
United Kingdom.—There are about 60,000 workpeople employed in some 
121 factories. © The average weekly wage for an adult male is £2 10s. 
The average for men engaged in the manufacture of tyres, rims and wheels 
is £3 11s. a week, 
Canada.—There are 17,000 people in 45 factories. The average wage 
for operatives (as opposed to salaried employees) is $1,026 a year or about 
£4 a week. About 45 per cent. of the wage earners, of whom the majority 
are female, are employed in the manufacture of footwear. 
Average weekly salaries and wapes:— 
Salaries. Wages. 
£ sd. £ sd. 
1. In the footwear industry ... oe eo 817 1 3 311 
2. Other rubber goods factories es . 7 9 4 4 9 9 
United States.—The following details were collected in the Census of 
Production relating to 1927 :— 
For the 
Industry as a whole ... _ ns os 
Tyre and tube industry - va - 
Boot and shoe industry ve. wen - 
Other rubber manufactures ... ee eee 
Wages. 
£000. 
40,700 
24,650 
6,600 
9.420 
Wage- 
earner. 
141,997 
78,256 
26,848 
86.883 
Average 
Weekly 
wage. 
£ sd. 
510 3 
6 1 2 
4.14 6 
18 2 
Hours are a nominal 48-hour week. 
France.—The total number of workers is estimated at not less than 
40,000. The French Government in the preamble to a bill for general 
revision of the tariff in March, 1927, put the figure at 50 to 60,000. 
Wages are understood to be in the neighbourhood of 25s. to 80s. for a 
week of 52/56 hours.