American Newspaper Publishers’ Association 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.
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.”