Committee on Paper.
Mr. A. G. McIntyre, of Toronto, has been appointed Manager of the
Committee on Paper of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association.
His varied experience in paper and associated lines well qualifies him
to handle the paper situation at the present critical time.
Mr. McIntyre has been both Engineer and Manager of some of the most
successful paper companies in Canada, during which time he has designed
and built a number of mills, together with having managed and operated
same as well.
[Illustration: A. G. McINTYRE.]
He has been associated with the following companies:
Jonquiere Pulp Company.
Price Bros. & Company, Limited.
Bathurst Lumber Company, Limited.
Mattagami Pulp and Paper Company, Limited.
He also became Editor of the Pulp and Paper Magazine, when this
magazine was purchased by the present owners, the Industrial &
Educational Press, and acted in this capacity for a year after its
re-organization.
He was also Superintendent and Organizer of the Forests Products
Laboratories of Canada, under the Dominion Government, located in
Montreal, where a large technical staff are engaged in working on paper
making problems.
Mr. McIntyre was also Organizer and first Secretary-Treasurer of the
Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, and leaves the position of General
Manager of the Mattagami Pulp and Paper Company, Limited, Toronto, to
take up this work.
His experience has been a unique combination of paper mill engineering,
paper mill executive, publishing, Government expert work and
association work.
The office of the Committee on Paper will be located in the World
Building, New York City.
Mr. McIntyre has made the following statement, in connection with
taking up this work:
“I have accepted this work of the Paper Committee, with the
idea that something can be done to alleviate the present
serious condition for the consumers of newsprint paper.
“Everyone knows there is a serious shortage in production
over the demand; at the same time, much can be done by both
manufacturers and consumers to adjust their business to the
present conditions.
“Consumers must practise rigid economies, making all papers
non-returnable; eliminating press room wastes and all avoidable
consumption of paper. If this does not bring the consumption
within the production, sufficient new mills must be constructed
to take care of the normal consumption with the normal
increase, as there is only very little new tonnage proposed,
which will come on the market by 1918.
“Manufacturers must turn aside from export business, taking
care of old and permanent customers; should run mills at the
fullest possible capacity, and at a reasonable margin of profit.
“It has been distinctly understood with me before taking
up this work, that the basis of relief will be mutual
understanding and information between manufacturer and
consumer, with sufficient increased tonnage provided, either
by the present manufacturers, or by a few of the consumers,
to protect the members of the American Newspaper Publishers’
Association in their supply of print paper.”