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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[February 1, 1920, 



Rubber Co. held their second annual convention in Boston, De- 

 cember 29 and 30, for the purpose of discussing technical and 

 production problems of the industry with the aim of standardiz- 

 ing methods of operation in the various factories. 



The supervisory forces of 17 different footwear factories oper- 

 ated by the company in Cambridge, Maiden, Melrose, Stoughton 

 and Millville, Massachusetts; Bristol and Woonsocket, Rhode 

 Island: New Haven, Naugatuck, Waterbury and Milford, Con- 

 necticut; New Brunswick, New Jersey; Williamsport, Pennsyl- 

 vania; St. Louis, Missouri; and Hastings, Michigan, were rep- 

 resented. 



The convention opened with a general session in Ford Hall 

 at which Myron H. Clark, general factory mana.£?er of the foot- 

 wear division, presided. Homer E. Sawyer, vice-president of the 

 company, spoke on industrial relations ; C. R. Haynes discussed 

 technical factory problems ; George L. Lawrence, production fac- 

 tory manager, touched upon the problems of quantity production ; 

 C. T. McCarthy, general manager of the Naugatuck factory, out- 

 lined the use of charts and statistics in factory administration, 

 and A. T. Hopkins, service manager, led a discussion on indus- 

 trial relations. 



During the afternoon and the next day the convention was 

 dwivided into departmental groups for luncheon in the various 

 hotels and discussion of common problems. The tirst evening a 

 smoker and entertainment was given in Ford Hall, at which the 

 National India Rubber Co. Band, of Bristol, Rhode Island, played 

 under the direction of F. E. Essex. The convention came to a 

 close the second evening with a reception and banquet given to 

 the officials of the company at the Copley-Plaza Hotel, the guests 

 including Charles B. Seger, president ; Homer E. Sawyer, vice- 

 president; Myron H. Clark, general footwear factory manager; 

 George H. Mayo, general manager of sales, and C. W. Barnes, 

 general sales agent. Topical songs were rendered by the various 

 factory groups, each under the direction of a cheer leader. Spare 

 moments during the two days were devoted to sightseeing trips to 

 points of interest about the city. 



Realizing that a knowledge of English means better opportuni- 

 ties and more comforts of life to the immigrant, the Hood Rub- 

 ber Co. plans to make a wide-spread campaign in Americaniza- 

 tion work. Census cards have been given to the foremen in each 

 department. Every foreigner is being interviewed personally. 

 Teachers from Cambridge and Watertown have been secured; 

 class-rooms in different parts of the plant have been arranged ; 

 books and equipment purchased ; meetings with motion picture 

 films, and classes conducted by Mr. Mahoney in charge of the 

 State Americanization Work and George Quinby, of the Asso- 

 ciated Industries of Massachusetts, are being held in the restau- 

 rant. The classes chosen for this work are made up of men and 

 women chosen from different parts of the plant, and the intelli- 

 gence and interest shown by them only too conclusively proves 

 that there is a boundless field for this work, and an infinite 

 amount of good can be done for the people of foreign birth who 

 have become a part of the community. 



The Mulconroy Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, manufacturer 

 of metallic hose, etc., opened, on January 1, a branch store at 

 8S Purchase street, Boston, Massachusetts, through which to 

 handle the New England trade. 



At the recent annual meeting of Aleppo Temple, Ancient and 

 Accepted Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, Francis H. Ap- 

 pleton, of F. H. Appleton & Son, Inc., reclaimers, and Joseph H. 

 Work, dealer in lasts for rubber shoes, were elected respectively 

 assistant rabban and treasurer. Both have long been promi- 

 nently .identified with various Masonic bodies in Boston. 



Dr. Robert S. Quinby, service manager of the Hood Rubber 

 Co., Watertown, has been elected president of the Employment 

 Managers' Association, an organization composed of an exten- 



sive membership of men selected from New England industries 

 to make a detailed investigation of better employment relations. 



The various organizations headed by George N. Tougas have 

 taken the entire second floor 

 at 161 Summer street, Boston, for 

 headquarters and main sales 

 offices. The Tougas organiza- 

 tions include the Tougas Shoe 

 Co., Boston, shoe jobbers; the 

 Salem Die Co., Salem, die manu- 

 facturers; George N. Tougas, 

 Boston, shoe and rubber manu- 

 facturers' supplies. Mr. Tougas 

 is also a director of the Brockton 

 Trust Co., Brockton, Massachu- 

 setts. 



The demand for Killion cushion 

 heels is such that the Killion 

 Rubber Co., Dorchester, will dis- 

 continue its mechanical and all 

 other lines and continue its efforts Gkorgf. N. Toug.\s 



to heels alone. Various alterations have been made in the 

 plant, a new mixer, presses and other equipment have been 

 installed, and the company will soon be in a position to double 

 Its present production. 



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Owing to the death of L. L. Cheney, Boston, salesma: 

 the Clifton Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of clothing, car- 

 nage cloth and proofed fabrics, at Jamaica Plain, the firm will 

 temporarily be represented in this territory by I. M Post and 

 T. Frank McCarthy, its New York City salesmen. 



Frank A. Vanderlip, a director of the United States Rubber 

 Co., and one time assistant secretary of the treasury, in a re- 

 cent address before the Old South Meeting House Forum, at- 

 tributed chiefly to the excessive issue of paper money by the 

 United States and other countries during the war the present 

 high prices and declined purchasing power of the dollar. He 

 urged "spiritual regeneration" as the remedy and asserted the 

 need to deflate by self-denial, although it would test the character 

 of the nation to accomplish it. 



With the organiaztion of the Tyrian Service Association by em- 

 ployes of the Tyer Rubber Co., Andover. there begins another 

 interesting experiment in industrial relations. The preamble 

 the constitution sets forth the belief that employers and em- 

 ployes have common interests, and that all problems can be 

 solved and permanent prosperity assured by this considerate and 

 earnest cooperation. The employes therefore undertake by frank 

 discussion and earnest effort to solve the problems confronting 

 the Tyer Rubber Co. and themselves in order to promote their 

 common welfare and to advocate sound Americanism in such a 

 way as to serve the community, commonwealth and nation. 



The business of the association is to be transacted by a com- 

 mittee of twenty-five persons representing the various departments 

 by allotment according to the number of operatives in each. Eight 

 may be elected by tlie management, eight by tlie foremen's com- 

 mittee and the balance are to be elected by and from the em- 

 ploye membership. Monthly meetings are to be held, and the com- 

 mittee will serve as the channel of communication between the 

 employes and the company, making such suggestions or recom- 

 mendations as are deemed advisable. The following matters are 

 regarded as within the scope of discussion by the committee: 

 General welfare of the employes and the company; methods and 

 equipment; output and cost; working hours; wages and econ- 

 omy; misunderstanding between the company and the employes; 

 suggestions. 



A recent survey of the operatives of the plant gave the fol- 

 lowing result regarding citizenship: Number of citizens, 81,2 



