THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February 1, 1920. 



MISCELLANEOUS NEW JEBSEY NOTES, 



The Overman Cushion Tire Co., Belleville, New Jersey, has 

 plans drawn for a two-story factor)', 64 by 120 feet, at Cortlandt 

 and Rutgers streets. 



The Rydon Tire & Rubber Co. has let a contract for the erec- 

 tion of a brick and steel factory building at Fourth and Railroad 

 avenues, .\sbury Park, New Jersey, to cost $100,000. The struc- 

 ture will be 75 by 18.S fett. 



The Pocono Rubber Cluth Co., manufacturers of rubberized 

 cloth for automobile tops and various specialties, has purchased 

 the plant of the Howard Demountable Rim Co., in Hamilton 

 Township, New Jersey, and will establish a large factory there. 

 The property consists of three acres and a manufacturing plant 

 90 by 170 feet. The Pocono company has also obtained options 

 on adjoining lands along the main line of the Pennsylvania Rail- 

 road for future use. The plant cost the Pocono company $45,000. 

 About 100 hands will be employed. 



Brighton Mills, Inc., Passaic, New Jersey, has devised a service 

 button for employes who remain with the company and serve 

 full time except for illness or other excusable absence. The but- 

 ton given at the end of one year is of blue enamel with gilt let- 

 tering ; second year, bronze ; tifth year, silver ; tenth year, gold. 

 The design consists of the monogram "B. M." in a central circle ; 

 the words 'Brighton Mills" in an intermediate one; and the words 

 "Loyalty," "Cooperation," and "Fellowship" in the outermost one 

 which is indented between the words. 



TRENTON RUBBER MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION. 



This association has been in existence a little over four years 

 and has resulted in much benefit to the local rubber manufac- 

 turers, all of which are members. The roster of the association 

 includes the Acme Rubber Manufacturing Co., Ajax Rubber 

 Co., Inc., Bergougnan Rubber Corp., Essex Rubber Co., Empire 



.\NNr.\i, Mleting and Banqi'et of the Trexton Rubbek 

 Manufacturers' Association at the Trenton Country Cluh. 



Rubber & Tire Co., Globe Rubber Tire Co., Hamilton Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co., Home Rubber Co., Crescent Insulated Wire 

 & Cable Co., Luzerne Rubber Co., Semple Rubber Co., Joseph 

 Stokes Rubber Co., Thermoid Rubber Co., United & Globe 

 Rubber Co., Whitehead Bros. Rubber Co., Mercer Rubber Co.. 

 all of Trenton, and the Vulcanized Rubber Co., Morrisville. 

 Pennsylvania; Quaker City Rubber Co., Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 

 vania ; Electric Hose & Rubber Co., Wilmington, Delaware. 



Meetings are held every two months except during the sum- 

 mer period. Matters of particular as well as general interest 

 are discussed at these meetings, and the friendly intercourse 

 arising has been of much benefit in many ways to the members. 

 The labor turn-over was one of the first matters given attentiori. 

 and after a short time this feature of economic waste was very 

 much reduced. 



The bi-inontlily meetings are always held in the evening, when 

 those present partake of the famous cuisine of the Trenton 

 Country Club. 



The annual meeting held December 8, and names of ofiicers 

 elected at that time were recorded in The Ini>ia Rubber World 

 January 1, 1920. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND, 



By Our Regular Corrcsl>ondent. 

 "T^iiE FIRST MONTH of the new year found the manufacturers 

 of rubber goods in Rhode Island ready for a continuance 

 of the season of great prosperity that has been unprecedented 

 for the past four years. Everything is favorable to the year 1920, 

 exceeding any previous twelve months in the history of the 

 industry. Orders on hand are sufficient to justify this prophecy, 

 but the labor situation continues to cause the manufacturers 

 of rubber goods, in common with practically all other lines, 

 considerable worry. Practically every plant in the State is look- 

 ing for, but only in comparatively few cases, is finding, experi- 

 enced help. And this, notwithstanding the substantial increases 

 that have recently been made in the wage schedules. 



The Atlantic Tubing Co., of Knightsville, is giving free life 

 insurance to all its employes who have been with the concern 

 six months or more. The initial amount of insurance issued to 

 any employe is $500, and this amount increases each year by 

 $250 until a maximum of $1,000 is reached. A blanket policy 

 covers all the lives, and each person insured is presented with 

 a certificate. He names his beneficiary in the same manner as 

 he would under an ordinary policy, and has the provilege of 

 changing the beneficiary as circumstances demand. No medical 

 examination is required. 



One of the largest and most important mill plant purchases 

 that have occurred in this state in many months was consum- 

 ni.-iied recently when the plant of the Greene & Daniels Co. of 

 lawtucket was transferred to the Ninigret Mills Co. of Boston, 

 the majority stock of which is owned by The Fisk Rubber Co., 

 of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. This concern is a newly 

 formed Massachusetts corporation, with a capital stock of 

 $3,000,000, divided into $2,500,000 preferred and $500,000 com- 

 mon stock. J. A. Brander, of Brander & Curry, Inc., New York 

 city, is president; Charles F. Broughton, treasurer of the Wam- 

 sutta Mills, New Bedford, Massachusetts, vice-president; H. T. 

 I'isk, of The Fisk Rubber Co., treasurer; Henry Otte, first 

 .Lssistant treasurer; Charles S. Fowler, second assistant treas- 

 urer; Arthur Houghton, secretary, and John E. Searle, clerk. 



The company will operate two plants for the manufacture of 

 .-iutomobile tire yarns and fabrics, one being located at Pawtucket 

 and the other at Westerly. The Ninigret Mills, at Westerly, 

 which will be operated under the direction of Mr. Fowler, are 

 already equipped with twisting, spooling and weaving machinery, 

 but 20,000 spindles are to be added at an expense approximating 

 $1,000,000 and a new building, to cost $500,000. is to be erected 

 which will afiford facilities for the employment of some 700 

 l)ersons. This plant will have an annual capacity of 250,000,000 

 pounds of tire fabrics, and will carry an annual payroll of 

 nearly $1,000,000. 



The Greene & Daniels plant is located on Central street, 

 and employs about 600 textile workers. It will be under the 

 direction of Mr. Otte, and is to be thoroughly overhauled and 

 arranged for the production of tire yarns and fabrics. 



January was a busy month at the plant of the National India 

 Rubber Co., Bristol, because of numerous conferences of the 

 committees on industrial relations and employes' welfare: con- 

 ferences of sales forces and department heads, and other activi- 

 ties, together with material improvements of the plant, and the 

 unusual business activities. 



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