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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[Makch 1, 1903. 



The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. have been getting ready 

 for some time to push their Saunders compressed air ball. The 

 rush of work in other departments has also delayed work with 

 them. It is expected, however, to get the Saunders ball upon 

 the market in quantities sufficient to draw attention to it with- 

 in a few weeks. 



The Whitman and Barnes Manufacturing Co. are making 

 no golf balls this season. 



A large number of tennis balls are being manufactured by 

 The India Rubber Co. for an outside concern. The demand 

 is keeping that department of the India company's works busy 



night and day. 



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The large five story building into which the Diamond Rub- 

 ber Co. moved their tire departments last spring has been 

 heated throughout the winter, thus far, even in zero weather, 

 by means of the steam first used in the engines and vulcan- 

 izers. This economy has been found very successful, giving an 

 even, continuous heat, practically without cost, as the steam 

 would otherwise be wasted. 



The shareholders of the Alden Rubber Co., at their annual 

 meeting on February 4, authorized an increase in the capital 

 stock of the company from $1 10,000 to $220,000, and the capac- 

 ity of the plant is to be practically doubled. Plans for additions 

 are now being prepared. The company will make a general 

 extension of their present lines. Several changes were made 

 in t\i^ personnel ol the company, E. L. Toy, vice president, and 

 A. J. Commins, secretary, retiring from active participation in 

 the company, save that Mr. Toy continues to be a director. 

 W. A. Johnston, president of the American National Bank of 

 Barbenon, and treasurer of the Pure Gum Specialty Co., was 

 elected to the directorate, and became treasurer of the com- 

 pany. Wilmer Dunbar, heretofore holding an important posi- 

 tion with the company, was elected vice president and general 

 manager. The other officers are: I. C. Alden, president; Mark 

 Hayne (formerly treasurer), secretary; George C. Kohier, gen- 

 eral counsel. 



The Lilly Rubber Manufacturing Co. (Barberton, Ohio) was 

 incorporated under Ohio laws, on February 13, with an author- 

 ized capitalization of $10,000. This is the company promoted 

 by Charles Ammerman, president of the First National Bank of 

 Birberion, and referred to already in this correspondence. W. 

 C. Lilly, formerly with The B. F. Goodrich Co., is the practical 

 man of the concern, which already has begun manufacturing 

 dipped and molded goods. The officers are: Charles Ammer- 

 man, president; E. E. Beam (Ashtabula, O.). vice president; 

 H. C. Benner, secretary and treasurer ; W. C. Lilly, general 

 mjnager. The officers, and M. J. Flatery, of Pittsburgh, Pa., 

 constitute the board of directors. 



The Buckeye Rubber Co. have lately taken on the manufac- 

 ture of rubber horseshoe pads, and are^very busy in the new 

 department as well as in their tire departments. S. S. Miller, 

 the manager of the company, states that the use of rubber 

 horseshoes is rapidly increasing, and that the demand this year 

 will far surpass that of any previous season. In their tire de- 

 partments the Buckeye company booked twice as many orders 

 in January as during the same month last year. The factory is 

 in operation day and night. 



Peter Kiefer filed suit against The Diamond Rubber Co. on 

 Febiuary 10, asking damages in the sum of $1995 upon the al- 

 leged ground that he was blacklisted by the Diamond company 

 for suspected sympathy with the union labor movement last 

 October, and thereby prevented from securing other employ- 

 ment. In his'petilion Kiefer says he was for nearly seven years 

 an employe of the company and, becoming an expert stock- 



cutter, was able to earn $3 and $3.50 per day. He avers that he 

 was discharged without reason, and that when he asked for em- 

 ployment at other factories in Akron, persons to whom he ap- 

 plied referred to a list they had and told him there was noth- 

 ing for him, though at the time the different companies were 

 advertising for men. The case is almost identical with that of 

 SchaefTer v. the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad 

 Co., decided by the supremecourt of Ohio in 1902, in which the 

 judgment was in favor of the company, it being held that an 

 employer could not be required to give a reason for discharg- 

 ing or refusing to employ any person. In this instance Schaef- 

 fer had been implicated in a strike. Attorneys for The Dia- 

 mond Rubber Co. will file a demurrer to Kiefer's petition upon 

 the precedent established in the case cited. 



The labor situation remains quiet in the rubber industry. The 

 union organized last June is just about holding its own now, but 

 it is expected that the national convention of the Amalgamated 

 Rubber Workers' Union, to be held here in June, will create 

 some enthusiasm among the local rubber workers. The other 

 local unions in Akron are expected to assist in entertaining the 

 visiting rubber workers. It is thought that about fifty delegates 

 will attend the convention. 



W. B. Tutlle and W. R. Harris, of the Combination Tire and 

 Supply Co., were in Albany. N. Y., recently, to obtain the dis- 

 solution of their company, they having a New Yoi k charter. 

 The internal affairs of the company rendered this step advis- 

 able. Directly this is accomplished a new company will be in- 

 corporated in Ohio, with a capital probably of $25,000, to be 

 knoivn as the Harris Tire Co. 



The Diamond Rubber Co. are increasing their facilities for 

 manufacturing hard rubber goods, and will give that depart- 

 ment more attention this spring than ever before. Battery 

 jars, tubing, and rods are being produced in considerable quan- 

 tities. The company have had difficulty in obtaining help. 



Among the Akron men attending the Chicago automobile 

 show in February, in connection with exhibits of their com- 

 panies, were F. H. Mason and H. E. Raymond of The B. F_ 

 Goodrich Co. ; H. J. Dingman of the GoodyearTire and Rubber 

 Co. ; W. B. Hardy and Theodore Weigele of the Diamond Rub- 

 ber Co. ; H. C. Firestone of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. 



The undertaking of the Richland and Mahoning Railroad 

 Co. to build a new road from Akron to Mogodore, to connect 

 with the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad there (backed by 

 the Gould people, as newspaper reports declare), will give the 

 Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. improved shipping facilities. 

 The proposed road will pass directly back of their factory, and 

 will be an extension of the Northern Ohio railroad, giving the 



company dir ct access to two important lines. 



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The Canton Hard Rubber Co. (Canton, Ohio) are about to 

 extend their line of production and engage in the manufacture 

 of hard rubber goods In general. The concern is owned by the 

 interests which owned the Canton Pole and Shaft Co., which 

 recently consolidated with the Pioneer Pole and Shaft Co., em- 

 bracing the principal factories of the kind in the United States. 

 The owners now have more time and capital to devote to their 

 rubber factory, and while continuing the manufacture of hard 

 rubber harness mountings, as heretofore, will branch out as 

 rapidly as they find their business warrants. The company's 

 emplo) es are chiefly from the Crown Point (Akron) factories of 

 the ■ merican Hard Rubber Co. 



The India Rubber World's correspondent found the Can- 

 ton Rubber Co. (Canton, Ohio) well pleased with the business 

 they are doing, and contemplating additions to their present 

 lines of molded and dipped goods. 



