Fear Results of Rubber Ban Act Publication: Automotive Daily News Dateline: Buffalo, New York Date: 27 August 1925 Subject: Tires Topic: E.B. Germain

Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 26.—The British, more than Americans, are feeling the drastic mandate as applied to rubber shipments from the British colonial possessions, according to President E. B. Germain of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber Co., upon his return from a European trip. Price alone, he said, was not the chief objection of the British motorists and rubber manufacturers, but fear of the crude rubber business passing from under the British flag.

“Americans,” said Mr. Germain, “need not take up the cudgel in the interest of a revision of the Stevenson law, which limits crude rubber exports; the British themselves are bringing all possible power to bear in that direction. Whether or not they will be successful in securing a review and revision of the act by the Colonial Office, I have no means of knowing.”

The United States, as the user of 70 per cent of the world's crude rubber output, declared Mr. Germain, should never again permit itself to be in a position where any one nation excercises dominating control over so important a raw material as rubber.