September 10. 1919 



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business men of Ann Arbor. An investment of $100,000 was made to 

 carry the company over a period of two and a lialf years, and tlie King 

 Trailer Company was thus organized. It had during that period been 

 brought to a sound basis and in the summer of 1018 reached the point 

 where a radical expansion was warranted. 



At that time additional ground was obtained and factory facilities were 

 greatly increased. An extensive advertising campaign was started and 

 expansion well under way when Mr. Hoover died. As he had dominated 

 the entire direction and financing of the company, and as none of the 

 other directors were in a position to devote the necessary time for 

 directing the company at such an important period, plans for further 

 advertising and expansion were curtailed. • 



Early in 1919 the directors placed the company under the financial 

 direction of Harold C. Johnson of Detroit for refinancing and reorganiz- 

 ing to take care of increased demands for King trailers and the market 

 already established. The Johnson Company for about two months made 

 a concentrated study of trailer problems, and during a further period 

 of four months, during which the business was conducted under the 

 direction of the Johnson Company, data was obtained and tabulated 

 amply warranting a contract by the Johnson company under which it 

 undertook the work of re-financing and expanding the trailer company's 

 business. 



Before purchasing and offering to the public new securities of the King 

 Trailer Company, the Harold Johnson Company interested a number of 

 active and aggressive executives of Detroit, men who were making in- 

 dustrial history in that city. These men were put on the executive com- 

 mittee, which is composed of the following men : Arthur Baldwin, engi- 

 neer and production manager of the Detroit ^teel Products Company : 

 H. F. Warden, sales manager of the same company ; Carl Pelton, formerly 

 secretary of the Maxwell Motor Sales Company, and Walter Flanders, 

 assistant and personal representative in all of the industrial operations 

 conducted by Mr. Pelton ; W. A. C. Miller, president of the W. A. C. 

 Miller Lumber Company, and Harold C. Johnson of the firm of Harold 

 Johnson Company. The active control and management of the company 

 is in the hands of this committee, which is assembling an efficient and 

 increased organization. 



Following the completion of this work the stock was underwritten by 

 the Johnson company and part of the new issues taken by the entire 

 board of directors composed of the following men ; 



M. J. Fritz, president Ann .\rbor Savings Bank, treasurer Hoover Steel 

 Ball Company, director First National Bank ; Walter C. Mack, Mack & 

 Co., president Hoover Steel Ball Compan.v, director First National Bank, 

 director Ann Arbor Savings Bank ; Frank A. Stivers, attorney, vice-presi- 

 dent Hoover Steel Ball Company, director First National Bank, director 

 Forge Products Company, vice-president Michigan Furniture Co. : W. H. 

 Hinkle. retired. New York City, formerly vice-president and general man- 

 ager Charcoal Iron Company of America : Harry Douglass, president 

 Washtenaw Gas Company, director Hoover Steel Ball Company, director 

 State Savings Bank : Arthur L. Baldwin, engineer and production man- 

 ager, Detroit Steel Products Co. ; D. F. Zimmerman, vice-president and 

 director State Savings Bank, director Washtenaw Gas Company ; Carl H. 

 Pelton, recently assistant to president, >Iaxwell Motor Company, secretary 

 Maxwell Motor Sales Company ; Frank Cornwell. pre.sident Cornwell Coal 

 Company : W. A. C. Miller, president W. A. C. Miller Lumber Company ; 

 Howard G. Engard. vice-president and general manager: William .\rnold, 

 Jr., director Hoover Steel Ball Company, member of Arnold & Co. ; 

 Rudolph Reichert, assistant cashier and director. State Savings Bank, 

 president City Council, Ann Arbor ; Harold C. Johnson. Harold Johnson 

 Company. Detroit ; H. F. Wardwell, sales manager Detroit Steel Products 

 Company. 



Branch offices are being established by the King Trailer Company and 

 complete data on various industries and their hauling problems are being 

 assembled. One of the most important fields for investigation is the lum- 

 ber business, which is being made a special feature in the company's pro- 

 gram. The company has available the aid of men thoroughly familiar 

 with the lumber business and lumber hauling problems are being analyzed 

 by the King Trailer Company engineers. 



It is anticipated that there will shortly be established an engineering de- 

 partment at the service of all lumbermen to advise with them and to give 

 service both by mail and personal investigations on hauling problems. 



A Regrettable Error 



In a recent issue of Hardwood Record a news letter from Wisconsin 

 contained an item regarding the Timber Workers' Union, which got by the 

 editor's attention. This is regrettable as the text of the item, which is 

 as follows, does not represent Hardwood Record's conviction regarding 

 this movement : 



The Timber Workers' TTnion of the northern Wisconsin and Michigan 

 district will hold a convention in Rhinelander to establish a uniform and 

 fair wage throughout the entire district and determine what a "common 

 day" shall constitute. The organization has experienced rapid growth 

 and is estimated that they now have several thousand members, with 

 local chapters in practically every mill town and city in northern Wis- 

 consin and Michigan. This marked the first general meeting since the 

 organization of the two states unions. Lumlier manufacturers are lending 

 every co-operation to aid the union as they feel that it is another step 

 forward toward establishing a definite tvp'e of work which might lend 

 inducements for outside help, and lessen the shortage of lumber help. 



Hardwood Record acknowledges receipt of the following letter from 

 O. T. Swan, secretary of the Northern Hemlock and Hardwood Manu- 

 facturers' Association and is very glad to publish it as a contradiction 

 to what otherwise would appear as approval of the movement as described 

 in the former issue : 



I inclose a clipping from Hardwood Record of August 25 regarding the 

 Timber Workers' Union of northern Wisconsin and Michigan. 



This item gives the idea that the lumber manufacturers are well pleased 

 with the work of the Timber Workers' Union and are co-operating with it 

 to organize the men in Wisconsin and Michigan. 



As a matter of fact, I believe the organizers are working secretly at a 

 number of different mills and are holding out to the men a program which 

 certainly has some elements in it in which the manufacturers probably 

 would not care to co-operate. 



Your correspondent writes as though he was endeavoring to contribute 

 to the propaganda of the Union and I question whether the manufacturers 

 who read the item will be very well pleased with the statements made. 

 I suppose that your Rhinelander correspondent sent this in and I suggest 

 that you investigate his ideas to see whether he is handling this matter 

 impartially or in behalf of the Union. 



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