This is but a fair sample of the misrepresentations which have been made to you. Each and every one could be as readily disproved, but we regard this matter as irrelevant, and, besides, the charges are so voluminous that we doubt whether you desire to have us reply to them in detail. We respectfully refer you for additional information upon this point, or any other which has not been covered by our statements to your committee, to the hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary above referred to, and to the hearings last spring before the Select Committee of the House of Representatives on Pulp and Paper Investigation. We believe that you will find that every unfavorable allegation which has been made in regard to this company has been conclusively disproved. Very truly, yours, CHESTER W. LYMAN, Weekly and hourly rates of wages, International Paper Company, compared with Canadian EXHIBIT A. mills. SUMMARY OF TOTALS. Average weekly rate for Canadian mills... Average weekly rate for International Paper Company. Average hourly rate for Canadian mills... Average hourly rate for International Paper Company. $19. 28 25. 17 30.6 . 1655 .2656 60.5 Nine and seven-tenths per cent of positions are weekly; 90.3 per cent are hourly. International Paper Company more than Canadian mills for all positions, 57.6 per cent. December 18, 1908. EXHIBIT B. Weekly and hourly rates of wages, International Paper Company, compared with Canadian Weekly and hourly rates of wages, International Paper Company, compared with Canadian mills-Continued. Weekly and hourly rates of wages, International Paper Company, compared with Canadian mills-Continued. |