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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



November 1, 1920 



Henry C. Link, service supervision department of the United 

 States Rubber Co., and Dr. R. S. Quinby, service inanager of 

 the Hood Rubber Co., were among the speakers on the program 

 for the Human Relations Section conferences of the Associated 

 Industries of Massachusetts, held in Boston October 28 and 29. 



Stanley L. Blood, district manager for the New England ter- 

 ritory of the Dayton Tire Co., has been promoted to general 

 sales manager at the factory at Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Blood en- 

 joys a wide acquaintance in the trade and is regarded not only 

 as a successful distributer but as a general merchandising ex- 

 pert of exceptional ability. 



Frederic C. Hood, treasurer of the Hood Rubber Co., Water- 

 town, delivered a notable and timely address on the subject of 

 "Stability of Industrial Capital" at a luncheon October 28 at the 

 Copley-Plaza Hotel, Boston, in connection with the annual meet- 

 ing of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts. 



"Bring your lunch" clubs, as a protest against e.xcessive res- 

 taurant prices, are rapidly increasing in Boston. At The B. F. 

 Goodrich Rubber Co. branch both the men and women have a 

 club, and rooms are provided for the purpose, including a fully 

 equipped kitchen, dishes and silver. The men bring their own 

 lunches and the women cook theirs at a total cost of 20 cents a 

 day per person for supplies. Five girls in rotation prepare the 

 meal for the other sixty and splendid cooks many of them are 

 proving to be. 



MISCELLANEOUS MASSACHUSETTS NOTES 



The biggest boot and shoe ticket in the history of the Con- 

 verse Rubber Shoe Co., Maiden, Massachusetts, is now being 

 turned out and yet the demand for its goods is not being tilled. 

 A daily total of 17,500 pairs of all kinds of footwear was recently 

 reached. The tire division is maintaining two shifts of workmen. 

 No reduction is contemplated and no employes have been laid 

 off through lack of work. 



Dr. R. S. Quinby, service manager of the Hood Rubber Co., 

 Watertown, is a member of the executive committee, represent- 

 ing the rubber industry of the Council of Management Education 

 which has been created to put into operation the plan for train- 

 ing executives for the principal American industries in colleges 

 and technical schools that was advocated by Dr. Hollis R. God- 

 frey, of Drexel Institute. It is apparent that the shortage of 

 trained industrial engineers must be relieved by closer coopera- 

 tion between manufacturers and institutions of learning, and the 

 Council of Management Education has been organized to become 

 a clearing house to promote a better understanding of the mutual 

 problems of college and industry and to keep a perpetual inven- 

 tory of the educational needs of industry and the ability of col- 

 leges to meet them. 



The Fisk Rubber Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, has been 

 a leader in accident prevention work in rubber mills. What such 

 a campaign will accomplish is shov.n by the success of its recent 

 "no accident week," when no loss-of-time accidents were re- 

 ported. The campaign was continued for another week with 

 the same result. This is a splendid example of what it means 

 to make factory carefulness a common hal)it. 



A comprehensive plan for the cooperation of the public schools 

 and the industries of Massachusetts in the work of immigrant 

 education was adopted unanimously by the delegates at the re- 

 cent Plymouth Conference under the joint auspices of the State 

 Department of Education and the .Associated Industries of 

 Massachusetts. The recommendations for procedure by the two 

 agencies are as follows : 



1. The Schools: (a) accept provisions of Chapter 295, 

 Acts of 1919; (b) appropriate enough money to get the job well 

 done; (c) provide for classes in industries whenever organized; 

 (d) provide a director of immigrant education; (e) train and 

 supervise teachers; (f) provide suitable text material including 

 motion pictures; (g) organize courses of study. 



2. The I.ndustries : (a) Centralize responsibility in a plant 

 director or committee or other effective agency; (b) conduct 

 preliminary study to learn the extent and nature of the problem ; 

 (c) recruit classes; (d) provide satisfactory school accommoda- 

 tion; (e) establish an efficient follow-up; (f) provide incentives; 

 (g) collaborate in training teachers and in providing special text 

 material. 



Loyalty service pins were recently presented by Frederick H. 

 Jones, president of the Tyer Rubber Co., Andover, to all em- 

 ployes who have been on the company's pay-roll for a year or 

 more. Two women received 35-year service pins, and a number 

 of workers, both men and women, received 2S-year pins. Mr. 

 Jones has himself been with the company for 35 years. 



The Tyer Rubber Co., Andover, Massachusetts, through the 

 athletic committee of the Tyrian Service Association, has ar- 

 ranged a bowling league composed of teams representing different 

 factory departments. This committee has also been instrumental 

 in the organization of a bowling league made up of teams from 

 the different manufacturing plants of the town, and known as 

 the .\ndover Industrial Bowling League. Schedules for both 

 leagues begin in November. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND 

 By Our Regular Correspondent 



THE FUEL siTU-^TioN, with its shortage of supply and the in- 

 creased price of bituminous coal, together with the lack of 

 cars for the shipping of completed products, is causing the manu- 

 facturers of rubber goods in Rhode Island and vicinity much 

 concern and it is feared that these conditions may become grad- 

 ually worse. These problems, together with those concerning 

 labor — wages, hours and the securing of experienced employes- 

 are materially affecting all industrial prospects. Great efforts, 

 however, are being made to establish Providence as one of the 

 principal ports of entry on the .Atlantic seaboard and already 

 various projects are under way, fostered by the Providence Cham- 

 ber of Commerce, for new steamship lines. One of these is the 

 extension of the Merchants and Miners Line from its present 

 terminal to Baltimore; a new line is proposed to Philadelphia; 

 another to Manchester, England, and a fourth to Cuba. The 

 Fabre Line to the Azores, Lisbon, Marseilles and Rome has 

 recently announced an expansion of its service, so that altogether 

 the future for freights, domestic and export, looks very en- 

 couraging. 



While there is a general policy of curtailment throughout the 

 textile industry with the shutting down of plants to a schedule 

 of three or four days a week, or a reduction of operating force, 

 there has been no indication of general curtailment among the 

 rubber manufacturers. Business among the manufacturing ruliber 

 concerns of Rhode Island continues good, though not driving, 

 and most of them have sufficient orders on their books to keep 

 them in full operation for an indctinite number of months. 



A majority of the 2,000 operatives composing the working 

 force in the three plants of the Jenckes Spinning Co. in Paw- 

 tucket and Central Falls, have accepted a 15 per cent reduction 

 in wages rather than have the inills shut down for an indefinite 

 period. A short time previous to this agreement a cut was made 

 in the wages of a number of the employes at these plants rang- 

 ing from 12 to 20 per cent, but this has been adjusted on the 

 uniform basis of a 15 per cent cut. The Jenckes Spinning Co. 

 had been running its plants day and night up to about the first 

 of September, when the day schedule alone was introduced. The 

 company controls three plants, the Jenckes Spinning Co. on Barton 

 street, Pawtucket; the Tamarack Mill on Front street, Pawtucket, 

 and the Central Falls Mill, formerly the United States Cotton 

 Co. The company manufactures tire fabrics as its principal 

 product. 



During the past summer practically all of the plants in the 



