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Les diagrammes suivants illustrent la mdthode. 1 2 3 4 S 6 ^^r^TvUU^/i^ -2-/D PROVINCE OF CANA&A, } TO WIT : I,f)WKR TANAUA. ) TO THE HONORABLE LEGISLATIVE COrXCIL OF THE SAID PROVINCE OF CANADA. The Petition of the Undersigned, Stockholders of the Cana- dian Rubber Company, all of the City of McntreaL RESPECTFULLY SHOWETU, That the Canadian Rubber Company was established in 1864, for tlie mu-noso of manufacturing the foHow g goods from India-Rubber : Boots, Shoes, M^achine- j^elting, Engine and Hydrant Hose, Car-Springs, Packing, Elastic-Webbing Car- riage-Cloth, &c., &c. That the business was commenced as a prirate copartnership with a capital of about $50,000, and was afterwards incorporated by act of Parliament as a joint stock Company with a paid-up capital of |200,000. There was not, at that time (1854), a single India- tiubber Company in Europe capable of manufacturing anv of the above goods, the United States alone supplying that market, as well a's those of the Lower Provinces of British North America. That in less than three years after the establishment of the Montreal Compa- ny, it competed so successfully with the United States of America, not only in the Lower Provinces but also in England and Germany, that more than one half of the manufactured goods exported from Cana^^a in 1857, were India-Rubber Goods, prin- cipally shoes. This export b-isiness continued to be remunerative until 1858, when India-Rubber Factories sprung-up in England, Scotland, France and Geri. ,,.iy ; and two years later (1860), these goods could only be exported at a loss; conse- quently in 1801, the export trade from Canada zvas entirely discontinued. That the Company thus found itself restricted to the trade of Canada and the Lower Provinces, and was therefore obliged to reduce its establishment, which at one time emoloyed over 450 hands t nd made 5000 pairs of shoes per day to about 160 hands making 1500 pairs per day. Even this limited trade would have been sufficiently remunerative, had not the tide, in 1862, turned completely against this country, by the Germau, French ai^d English India-Rubber Companies ship- ping their Goods to Canada, the Lower Provinces, and even to the United States. But the latter market bein^ protected by a duty of 35 per cent, their imports were very trifling. The foreign manufacturers being, however, in the Lower Provinces on an equal footing with Canadian as regards duty, the Canadian Company was com- pelled to retire from that market also, and it is now almost exclusively supplied by the English and Scotch Companies. That the duty on foreign manufactured leatlier goods is 25 per cent, whik on Imlia-Rubber Goods it is only 20 per 3ent, which is quite insufficient to protect the Canadian from the powerful competition of the ilnglish manufacturer, who has the different raw materials much cheaper and the main-d' muvre much lower. In addition to this, every aHiclc, except the India-Rubber itself, Avhich enters into the manufacture of Indi? Rubber Goods (see enumeration of these articles below) and which constitutes the raw material is imported from England and a duty of 20 per cent is paid on it by the Company. That the Company was then forced, in order to meet this rninous competition, to reduce its prices over and over again, tmtil the entire capital stock o/ ^,200,000 was sacrificed. That your petitioners beg respectfully to submit the following reasons why the Company cannot successfully compete with European manufactures of India-Rubber Goods, unless the raw materials be admitted free, and a higher protective duty be placed on the manufactured Goods : 1st. That the protective duty of 20 per oont is insufficient ; in the United States It is 36 per cent, which excludes us from their market, while our duty is not high enough tfl keep them ont of ours. nil 2n(l. That all articles (with the exception of the raw Ruhher) used in th« taanufiicture of India-Rubber Goods are imported from Europe and pay a duty of 20 per cent. . 3rd. That the English manufacturer buys all that constitutes Jna raw-material (including coal) in his own market, at bis own door we may say, and as he requires it ; thus saving freight, duty and interest, besides obtaining labour in abundance at about one half what we are obliged to pay in Canada. (The Liverpool Rubber Company has its coal delivered at the works at 5s per The following articles used in the Mn-uifacture of India-Rubber Goods at present |>ay a duty of 20 per cent : Linen and Cotton Canvas used for making Hose and Tubing. LineD and Cotton Duck, No. 1 to l>, if over 27 inched wide used for making Mar chine Beltiag. Boot-felt useot8 with Rubber bottoms. Litherage, White-Lead, Zinc-White, Whiting, Pipe-Clay. Cotton-Netting used for lining Shoes «, d Boots. Woollen " Weaving-Silk used for making Elagtic-Webbing. Weaving Cotton " " These ^st four articles are mi used for am; other purpose except in the manufacture of India-Rubber Goods, and consequently should above all others be admitted free of Duty. Wherefore your Petitioners pray that your Honorable Legislative Council will be pleased to assent any Ac', or other measure that may be passed or adopted by the Ijegislative Assembly of this Province during its present session, admitting of the importation into this Province of the said materials used in the Manufacture of India-Rubber Goods free of duty, and imposing a higher rate of duty upon tiie importation into this Province of India-Rubber Goods manufactured elsewhere, or granting such measure of relief in the premises as to your Honorable Council may seem.tieet. And as in duty bound your Petitioners will ever pray.