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Record Tire & Mig. Co.. October 22 (Delaware), authorized capital. 

 SQ,00O shares without nominal or par value. T. L. Croteau. P. B. Drew, 

 H. E. Knox — all of Wilmington, Delaware. Delaware agent, Corporation 

 Trust Co. of America, Du Pont Building, Wilmington, Delaware. To 

 manufacture and deal in tires and tubes. 



Salvage Tire Co.. Inc., October 14 <New York), $100,000. G. T. Fish, 

 B. H. EnRclkc, W. W. Sutton, Tr.— all of 15 Broad street. New York 

 Citjr. To manufacture and rebuild tires. 



Schlissel Safety Tire Protector Co., Inc.. December 16 (New York). 

 JSOO.OOO. U Schissel. 640 McDonald street: R. Kestler. 174 South Ninth 

 •ticet, both of Brooklyn; R. Oelkers. 838 West End avenue, New York 

 City — all in New York. To manufacture tires, protectors, etc. 



Stoddard Tire & Rubber Corp.. December 10 (New York), $500,000. 

 C H. Stoddard. Navy Yard. Brooklyn; J. A. Sands. F. D. Yates, both of 

 ISO Nassau street. New York City— all in New York. To manufacture 

 tins. etc. 



Stronqcord Tire & Rubber Manufacturing 

 $250,000. S. W. Stermont. A. Concn, F. 



Flaase — all of Evan.sville. Ind. Principal office. Evansvillc. Indiana, 

 manufacture rubber tires and other rubber goods. 



Stuart Puncture Proof I.iner & Tire Co.. The. September 24 (Oregon). 

 150,000. C. A. Stuart, president; M. P. Chapman, vice-president; E. J. 

 Noble, secreUry; T. P. Randall, treasurer; B. J. Statts, manager. Principal 

 office, Oregon City, Oregon. To manufacture and sell a puncture proof 

 liner and tire for pneumatic automobile tires. 



Trent Rubber (^o., Septejnber 29 (New Jersey), $500,000. II. A. 

 Ludeke; I. A. Worthington. both of Trenton; K. Keller, Hoboken — all in 

 New Jersey. Principal office, 26 West State street. Trenton. New Jersey. 

 Agent in charge, M. G. Buchanan. To manufacture, purchase and sell 

 tires, tubes, etc. (Formerly The .\tla.'! Tire & Rubber Co.i 



United States Puncture-Froof Co.. November 22 <Delaware). $5,000,000. 

 W. f. O'Keefe; G. G. Steigler. J. H. Dowd«ii— all of Wilmington, Dela- 

 ware. To manufacture inner tubes, casings, etc. 



Wildman Rubber Co.. The. November 8 (Delaware). $10,000,000. W. W. 

 Wildman. 160 Calvcri .iv.nin ; I,. C. MacGregor, both of Detroit: II. P. 

 Orr. Lansing — all in .MKlri..m. Delaware agent. Cori>oration Trust Co. of 

 America. Du I'nnt iluil^lmj. Wilmington. Delaware. To manufacture and 

 scD all kinds of iiutonmt.iK ints. tubes and other rubber goods. 



World Rubber I'roilucis Co., November 24 (Delaware). $1,500,000. M. L. 

 Horty. M. C. Kelly, S. U Mackey— all of Wilmington, Delaware. Dela- 

 ware agent, Delaware Charter Guarantee & Trust Co., Du Pont Building, 

 Wuinington, Delaware. To manufacture rubber goods^ etc. 



V. S. Skin Mechanical Tubcless Tire Co.. Inc., December 26 (New 

 York), $10,000 A. Abramson; B. Perlman. both of 299 Broadway; H. Y. 

 Skin, 55 Barclay street— all in New York City. To manufacture tires, etc. 



HIGHEST PRICES PAID TO RUBBER WORKERS. 



Men who work in rubber factories earned the highest aver- 

 age wages per hour and per week in the United States in 1919 

 and receive the highest percentage of increase since the war be- 

 gan; the women rubber workers, who are less favored, receive 

 the second highest weekly wages in the eight industries ex- 

 amined by the National Industrial Conference Board in its "War- 

 lime Changes in Wages." 



In September. 1914. the male workers in rubber factories were 

 receiving 28 8 cents an hour and $14 a week ; the boot and shoe 

 ■men did better, both by the hour and week ; and the metal work- 

 ers received a shade more an hour. In September, 1918. the 

 rubber workers received S7.S cents an hour and $28.60 a week 

 and in March. 1919. 61.2 cents an hour, the highest hourly earn- 

 ings in any of the industries, and $29.35 cents a week, far ahead 

 of all other workers. The figures in the same period for the men 

 cotton workers, who receive the lowest wages, were 18.9 cents per 

 hour aiid $10 per week in September, 1914; 38.S cents and 

 $20.60 a week in September, 1918, and 38.9 cents an hour and 

 $17.10 a week in March, 1919. 



The rubber men received 100 per cent increase in 1918 and 

 112 per cent in 1919 over 1914 in the hourly rate of pay, but 

 104 per cent increase in 1918 and 110 per cent in 1919 in weekly 

 wages over 1914. The percentages of increase per hour for the 

 cotton men was 104 in 1918 and 106 in 1919 over 1914. but it 

 left them still lowest in the scale; while the percentage 

 of increa.se per week, which was 106 in 1918 dropped to 

 71 in 1919. The chemical workers in the same time rose froin 

 23.2 cents an hour in 1914 to 44.5 cents in 1918 and 49 cents 

 in 1919; their weekly wages increased from $12.85 in 1914 to 

 $2(580 in 1918, dropping to $26.20 m 1919. 



WoiTien workers in rubber .in 1914 received 17.4 cents an 

 hour; ibis became 24 7 cents in 1918 and 29.2 cents in 1919. leaving 

 them the worst paid per hour in any of the eight industries ex- 

 amined and with the lowest perccnta.gc of increase. Their weekly 

 wages of $9.25 were the highest paid to women in 1914: the 

 increa.se to $12.94 in 1918 left them at the bottom of the list. 

 while the further increase to $14.90 in 1919 makes them second 

 <-iiify to the silk workers. la the same time the women cotton work- 

 ers, earning 15.2 cents an hour in 1914. rose to 30.4 cents in Sep- 



tember, 1918, and to 31.2 cents in March, 1919; their average 

 weekly earnings of $7.70 in 1914 became $15.37 in 1918 and sank to 

 $12.75 in 1919. 



The percentage increases in earnings of piece workers were 

 greater than those of time workers and the actual earnings were 

 also .greater in nianv cases. 



VICE-PRESIDENT OF ARTHUR W. STEDMAN, INC. 



A RTHUR W. Stedman, Jk., mining engineer and crude rubber 

 •** broker, was born February 15, 1894, in Brookline, Mas- 

 sachusetts, which town was founded by his ancestor in 1705. 

 J'"ir5t attending; \'o1knian's School for Boys, he later entered the 



Groton School, where he prepared for 



Harvard College. 



His mind being centered on making 

 mining engineering his life's work, he de- 

 cided upon a course at the Colorado 

 School of Mines, where he passed three 

 years, and was in his last term when the 

 World War was declared. 



He served with the Colorado Corps of 

 Engineers during the summer of 1916, 

 took examinations for the Regular Army 

 that fall, and was commissioned a second 

 lieutenant. After further training at 

 Camp Leavenworth he became first lieu- 

 tenant. He was later transferred to Fort Oglethorpe where 

 he served until January, 1918, when he received an honorable 

 discharge for illness. After recovery, two months later he en- 

 listed in the Tank Corps, soon becoming sergeant and accompany- 

 ing the corps to France, where he served until June, 1919. 



After pursuing the engineering profession for a time he en- 

 tered the crude rubber business, and was made vice-president 

 of the well-known firm of Arthur W. Stedman, Inc., 68 Broad 

 street. Xew York City, of which his father is president. 



A. W. Stedman, Jr. 



PERSONAL MENTION. 



R. W. .\shcrott has resigned as advertising manager, eflfective 

 December 31, 1919, of the United States Rubber Co. He states 

 that his future business plans have not been decided upon. 



H. Tyler Kay, who has been engaged in advertising work 

 during the last seven years with the Milwaukee "Journal," and 

 with the Nemours Trading Corp., New York, and who was dis- 

 charged from the army a short time ago, has been made ad- 

 vertising manager of The Madison Tire & Rubber Co.. Inc.. New 

 York City. 



George H. Jacobs, Akron manager for L. H. Butcher Co.. Inc., 

 was in New York City last month on a combined business and 

 pleasure trip. 



I. F. Baker of the Westinghouse Electric International Co., 

 who has been located in the New York oflnce for the past two 

 years, is now on his way to Tokio, Japan, where he will act as 

 a special representative of the company. 



Charles C. Spies has been appointed district sales representative 

 for the Faultless Rubber Co., Ashland, Ohio, in the Philadelphia 

 territory, with headquarters at 887 Drexel Building. Philadelphia, 

 Pennsylvania. He fonnerly traveled for the company in Ohio, 

 New- York, and New England. 



Henry E. Balslcy has been appointed manager of the Chicago 

 ofifice of the Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Co., Hamilton, Ohio. 



E. S. Cooley has been appointed manager of the New York 

 office of the Hooven, Owens, Rentschler Co., Hamilton. Ohio. 



W. W. Wildman, former president and general manager of 

 the Portage Rubber Co.. Akron, Ohio, is organizing in Detroit, 

 Michigan, a new $10,000,000 corporation to be known as the 

 Wildman Rubber Co. 



