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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



July 1, 1921 



Owing to tight money, the burden of financing footwear stocks 

 has been passed along to the manufacturer, and as he cannot bear 

 it in full and alone, all suffer in loss of business while a consid- 

 erable percentage of the buying public must go without the pro- 

 tective footwear it wants and needs. Merchants with the fore- 

 sight to stock amply will probably reap a harvest this coming 

 winter. 



BOSTON NOTES 



The Associated Tire Corporation, 1041 Commonwealth avenue, 

 Boston, has become Massachusetts distributer for Kenyon cord 

 tires, manufactured by the C. Kenyon Co., Brooklyn, New York. 

 Sales already nin ahead of the most sanguine expectations. 



Free service, free storage and free delivery arc features of 

 the day and night quick service being rendered to patrons at 

 the large service station of the Grow Tire Co., 323 Columbus 

 avenue. Experts are ready to advise regarding every tire diffi- 

 culty. A business man may drive his car to the service station 

 in the morning. A chauffeur will drive him to his office while 

 his tires are being changed, and later when ready, his car will 

 be sent to his office at his convenience. 



The Burditt & Williams Co., 160 Federal street, has become 

 factory distributer for the Ashland cord tire. 



The Detroit Waterproof Fabrics Co., of Detroit, Michigan, 

 has opened a Boston office at 166 Essex street, in charge of John 

 H. Foster, formerly in the Boston office of the United States 

 Rubber Co. 



J. E. DriscoU of Savannah, Georgia, has recently become a 

 vice-president, handling sales, with H. T. West Co., 148 State 

 street, Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Driscoll was formerly, for 

 many years, manager of the domestic department of the Amer- 

 ican Naval Stores Co. H. T. West Co. handles naval stores, 

 petroleum products, linseed oil and supplies for technical indus- 

 tries. 



The New England distributing point for the .-Vchilles Rubber 

 & Tire Co., Binghamton, New York, is now located at 679 

 Beacon street, Boston. Max Leitman is in charge. 



On the evening of May 26 about 125 employes of the United 

 States Rubber Co. offices in Boston held a dinner and dance at 

 the Hotel Westminster. George Bailey was toastmaster and 

 the speakers included John White, James Ryan, Charles Abbott 

 and J. J. Brady. The firm was represented by William North, 

 general manager, and M. R. Coe. Department bowling prizes 

 were awarded. 



MISCELLANEOUS MASSACHUSETTS NOTES 



The Middlesex Rubber Co., Reading, which was incorporated 

 late in March with a capital of $50,000, has occupied the plant 

 formerly operated by the McTernen Rubber Manufacturing Co., 

 and is making druggists' sundries, automobile inner tubes, and 

 rubber bands. George E. Jeandheur, at one time superintendent 

 of the Mayflower Rubber Co. plant, is president and treasurer, 

 while Michael Culliney is vice-president. 



With 27 per cent of the population of Massachusetts foreign 

 born, progressive industrial establishments have seen the need 

 of Americanization work among employes and met it. Among 

 the concerns which recently held special closing exercises for 

 their English and citizenship classes were the American Rubber 

 Co., Cambridge, and the General Electric Co., West Lynn. It 

 has been gratifying to note at those exercises the apparent read- 

 iness with which graduates use our language and the marked 

 progress in writing ability. 



Believing that the only way New England can maintain her 

 industrial leadership is to lead in the field of human relations, 

 a conference of executives and managers was held on May 17 

 at the Copley Plaza Jlotel to discuss employe representation 

 plans. Some two hundred plant representatives were present to 

 listen to five plans in successful operation, to ask questions and 

 join in the general discussion. 



Richard H. Rice, general manager of the Lynn plant of the 

 General Electric Co., summed up the case for employe repre- 

 sentation. Industrialists of the future, he declared, would bless 

 those who had blazed the way in this movement for a closer 

 relationship between employer and employe. The good results 

 achieved through it for his company justified him in advising 

 ethers to adopt similar measures. 



Other speakers told how employe representation had enabled 

 the companies to reduce wages and to readjust rates in keeping 

 with the industrial depression and the reduced cost of living, with 

 'the consent of the workers and without the slightest friction- 

 something that would not have been possible, it is believed, with- 

 out such a system. There was also evidence that it had resulted 

 in increased production, elimination of waste, and a general im- 

 provement in the morale of the working force. 



The full bench of the Supreme Court recently ordered the 

 Commonwealth of Massachusetts to refund to the Hood Rubber 

 Co., Watertown, the sum of $2,250, which the court decided was 

 illegally exacted in payment of excise taxes. The company 

 changed its common stock of par value into an equal number of 

 shares without par value. The tax commissioner then fixed 

 par value for the latter and assessed an excise tax. The court 

 holds that the unissued stock of no par value does not constitute 

 an increase of capital and is not subject to excise tax. 



MEETING OF THE RUBBER SECTION— NATIONAL SAFETY 

 COUNCILS 



The National Safety Council Convention will be held in Boston, 

 September 26 to 30 inclusive. The sessions of the rubber section 

 will be held September 28, 29 and 30, inclusive, in the historic 

 State House in Boston, one of the most famous buildings in 

 America. The tentative program is as follows : 



FIRST DAY 



1. .Address of welcome by the chairman, E. H. Fitzgerald, 

 Federal Rubber Co. 



2. "Standard Statistics of the Rubber Industry," by Ray Wat- 

 son, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Discussion. 



3. "Fire Hazards and Static Electricity." Discussion. 



4. General discussion on new ideas to promote safety in the 

 rubber industry. 



FIRST DAY EVENING 



Limcheon. Toast master, Harrold T, Martin. The speaker is 

 to be one of the most prominent men in the rubber industry. 

 Special entertainment also to be provided. 



SECOND DAY 



1. Talk by one of the foremost rubber chemists in America. 

 Subject to be selected. Discussion. 



2. "Keeping a Rubber Factory Clean." Discussion. 



3. Practical plans for medical supervision in rubber plants. 

 Discussion. 



THIRD DAY 



1. Reports of Committees: Engineering Committee, C. B. Mit- 

 chella, The B. J. Goodrich Rubber Co.; Health Hazards Com- 

 mittee, C. F. Horan, Hood Rubber Co.; Membership Committee, 

 E. W. Beck, United States Tire Co. ; Program Committee, S. M. 

 Schott, Morgan &■ Wright ; Standards and Statistics Committee, 

 Ray N. Watson, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. 



2. Talk by J. D. .Knderson, factory manager. The Fisk Rubber 

 Co. Subject: "Safety from the Factory Manager's Viewpoint." 



3. Reclaiming plants and their efforts towards safe operation. 



THE GOOD ROADS ESSAY CONTEST 



Interest in the "Good Roads and Highway Transport" national 

 essay contest for the Harvey S. Firestone scholarship appears 

 to be greater this year than last, and it extends to all states and 

 territorial possessions. In some states it is believed that 90 

 per cent of the high school pupils will submit essays, while many 

 schools are making these essays the basis of final examinations 



