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is being erected which almost connects the old and the new 

 structures. Other improvements are under consideration and it 

 is expected that the coming summer and fall will witness nu- 

 merous additions to this plant and its equipment. 



The Ninigret Co., manufacturers of tire fabrics, is enlarging 

 its plants at both Pawtuckct and Westerly, Rhode Island, to prac- 

 tically double their capacity, by the purchase of property ad- 

 jacent to its present holdings. It intends to erect new buildings 

 of the latest type, to be equipped with modern up-to-date ma- 

 chinery. During the past month the concern has purchased a 

 large tract of land on Middle and Fountain streets and Central 

 avenue, in Pawtucket, the revenue stamps affixed indicating an 

 outlay of approximately $39,500. Only a short time previous the 

 corporation purchased property immediately adjoining its plant 

 in Pawtucket, at a cost of $35,000. 



Work is to be started soon on a $15,000 brick addition, one- 

 stor>- high, to the plant of the Phillips Insulated Wire Co., at 

 Pawtucket. It will be 45 by 81 feet, of mill construction with 

 steel beams. Other additions and improvements will probably 

 be carried into effect during the coming summer. 



The American Wringer Co. is erecting a new building on 

 Social street, Woonsocket, where rubber-covered mechanical rolls 

 will be made. It is to be a three-story brick structure, 180 by 

 60 feet, and will be completed early in October, More than 100 

 hands will be employed in tlie new mill. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN MASSACHUSETTS. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



RTBBER GOODS amounting to $20,757,875 represented about one- 

 thirteenth of the value of all manufactures in Massachu- 

 setts for the year 1918, according to the thirty-third annual report 

 of the director of statistics, which has just been published. Sub- 

 stantial gains over the previous year are shown, and the state 

 still maintained its leading position in the manufacture of rubber 

 boots and shoes. 



Eight establishments with an invested capital of $27,562,384, 

 using stock and materials valued at $21,673,939, and paying 

 wages amounting to $11,162,572 to an average of 13.815 wage 

 earners, produced rubber boots and shoes to the value of 

 $54,098,670. Wage earners averaged $808 annually, there being 

 about 8 males to 5 females. 



Forty-three establishments with an invested capital of $44,- 

 791,412, using stock and materials valued at $31,481,177, and 

 paying wages amounting to $7,588,584 to an average of 7,613 

 wage earners, produced other miscellaneous rubber goods to 

 the value of $66,659,205. Wage earners averaged $996.79 annu- 

 ally, there being about 12 males to 3 females. 



The total value of rubber goods exports is not stated, but nine- 

 teen establishments selling rubber products exclusive of rubber 

 boots and shoes exported goods valued at $1,814,350. 



The average number of wage earners in the rubber industry 

 of the state shows remarkable uniformity throughout all months 

 of the year, operatives on rubber boots and shoes averaging 287 

 working days, and operatives in all other lines of rubber goods 

 278.8 working days. Weekly salaries ranged from $5 to $35 and 

 above. On rubber boots and shoes most male workers received 

 from $16 to $30 or more; female, from $10 to $25: minors, from 

 $10 to $18. In other miscellaneous lines most male workers 

 received from $15 to $35 or above: female, from $12 to $30; 

 minors, from $7 to $13. Of the 21,428 average rubber workers 

 in the state, only 1,775 were under eighteen years of age. 



Whereas, most of the rubber footwear is produced in or near 

 Boston, most of the miscellaneous rubber products arc manu- 

 factured elsewhere in the state. In metropolitan Boston five 

 establishments, with an invested capital of $23,591,113, using 

 stock and materials valued at $17,581,737, and paying wages 



amounting to $9,729,789 to an average of 12,075 wage earners, 

 produced rubber boots and shoes to the value of $44,475,483. 

 Wage earners averaged $805,78 annually, there being about 7 

 males to 5 females. Miscellaneous rubber goods to the value 

 of $17,417,810 were produced by twenty-four establishments 

 with an invested capital of $9,715,814, using stock and materials 

 costing $7,183,310, and paying wages amounting to $2,048,186 to 

 an average of 2,220 wage earners. Wage earners averaged 

 $922,61 annually, there being about 8 males to 3 females. 



The Hood Rubber Co., Watertown, Massachusetts, has an- 

 nounced that the plant will close down on Saturdays for twelve 

 weeks during the summer months, with all operatives in the em- 

 ploy of the company for more than three months receiving full 

 pay for a six-day week. Operatives with the company less than 

 three months will receive half-pay for these Saturdays, except 

 those who have worked less than one month, who receive no 

 compensation. The plan takes the place of a summer shut-down 

 and is intended to give an equivalent for Saturday half-holidays 

 during the season of outdoor recreation in a business where half- 

 holidays are difficult to arrange. It is on trial as an experiment 

 this year as it was last and has not been adopted permanently. 



'Multibcslos Company'' is the new firm name recently adopted 

 by the stockholders of the Standard Woven Fabric Co., Walpole, 



Massachusetts. 



The Tyrian Service Association, the recently formed employe 

 organization of the Tyer Rubber Co., Andover, Massachusetts, 

 held the second of a series of dances on the evening of .\pril 6. 

 Frederick H. Jones, treasurer and general manager of the com- 

 pany, was present and in a brief address expressed appreciation 

 of the spirit of cooperation manifested. These dances are held 

 to promote community feeling in the organization and the proceeds 

 are used to aid and bring comfort to sick and needy employes. 



The Avon Sole Co., Avon, Massachusetts, will enter the tire 

 field shortly with a new tire developed by Everett T. Packard. 

 The company is being reorganized and the plant will be doubled 

 to take care of the new tire building machinery. 



Everlastik, Inc., has completed a new three-story mill addition 

 in Chelsea at a cost of approximately $75,000. 



Rubber manufacturers are finding their factory papers pub- 

 hshed in the interests of employes a very potent means of pro- 

 moting their Americanization work. Not only are the advan- 

 tages of American citizenship made plain to foreign-born work- 

 ers, but the March issue of the "Bowohoco News," for example. 

 tells on its front page exactly how to become a naturalized 

 citizen. Incidentally, this news sheet of the Boston Woven Hose 

 & Rubber Co., Cambridge, not only contains the timely personal 

 mention of the plant, but is one hundred per cent American, 

 patriotic and common sense in its suggestion and inspiration. 

 It is a shop paper with interest and a moral for every worker. 



The Monatiquot Rubber Works Company. South Braintree, 

 Massachusetts, is bringing an additional reclaiming unit into op- 

 eration, which it is believed will increase the company's output 

 by 20 per cent. The laboratory, also, has been enlarged and is 

 now in charge of J. F. O'Donnell. The company has recently 

 introduced to the trade two new products for specific uses in 

 rubber compounds. 



BOSTON NOTES, 



More tlian 200 members of the Employment Managers' Asso- 

 ciation met at a luncheon dinner and conference on mutual 

 benefit associations and group insurance at the Hotel Vendomc, 

 Boston. April 8. Dr. R. S. Quinby, president of the association 

 and service manager of the Hood Rubber Co., Watertown, 

 presided. 



In his address. Dr. Quinby said that the big corporations fully 

 realize that the health of the workers is important to the life 



