SEPTEMBHJi 1, 1920.] 



THE INDIA RUBBEP. WORLD 



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guide. Factory employes are also allowed to take advantage of 

 the services of the guide during working hours by making an 

 appointment through the industrial relations bureau. During the 

 past month many of the employes have taken full advantage of 

 the privilege. 



The new branch of the National India Rubber Co., of Bristol, 

 that has been established in the old Perry Mill building on 

 Thames street, Newport, began operations on Monday, July 26, 

 about 75 employes taking up the work at the start. The branch 

 will, for the present, make the tops for the shoes. Later a de- 

 partment will probably be established for the making of the 

 shoes. A number of young women from the Bristol plant went 

 to Newport to assist in getting the new plant under way and 

 to give instructions. 



Some months ago the I. T. S. Rubber Co., of Elyria, Ohio, 

 brought an infringement suit before Judge Arthur L. Brown in 

 the United States District Court for Rhode Island, against the 

 United States Lace & Braid Manufacturing Co., of Auburn, R. I., 

 declaring that a rubber heel as manufactured by the Rhode Island 

 concern infringed on the patent rights of the plaintiff. Judge 

 Brown issued an order stopping the defendant from the further 

 manufacture of the heel in question. Since then the defendant 

 has made certain modifications in the heels, and on July 27 asked 

 permission of the court to manufacture them. The defendant was 

 told by Judge Brown, in an opinion handed down from the bench, 

 that he would not consider the new heel an infringement. 



The Mount Hope Spinning Co. closed its mills at Warren, 

 Rhode Island, at noon July 31 for a period of two weeks, not for 

 lack of orders, however. By reason of the increasing business a 

 new mill was erected last spring, but unforeseen obstacles pre- 

 vented the machinery installation. During the shut-down the 

 entire plan of the mill was changed as to the location of the 

 machinery and much of that located in the old mill was trans- 

 ferred to the new one, and the new machinery brought overland 

 by auto trucks from Taunton and Lowell, was set up in the old 

 structure. When running in full the capacity of the concern 

 will be more than doubled. The Mount Hope Spinning Co. 

 manufactures yarn for automobile tire fabric, and has large 

 orders on hand that ensure several months' steady business. 



The Kielstone Rubber Co., a Massachusetts corporation, has 

 leased the factories of the Lynn Rubber Manufacturing Co., War- 

 ren, Rhode Island, and has started operations. The sales depart- 

 ment has been established at 11 High street, Boston, in charge of 

 M. S. Klein, sales manager. The company is planning to increase 

 the output of the rubber specialties made by the Lynn Rubber 

 Manufacturing Co. several times, and, in addition, will make a 

 high grade rubber heel. The new company expects to employ 

 more help within the next 30 days, as soon as additional machinery 

 ?nd equipment can be installed. The officers and directors of the 

 company are as follows : president, Eliston H. Bell ; vice-presi- 

 dent and sales manager, Mycr S. Klein: treasurer, J. Everett 

 Stone : secretary and clerk, Robert J. Holmes ; directors, L. P. 

 Bosworth, and E. K. Watson, Warren; R. J. Holmes, M. S. 

 Klein, George Marsh, and E. H. Bell, Boston. Mr. Stone, treasur- 

 er of the company, will be in Warren and will have full charge of 

 the manufacturing and business of the concern. J. W. Long, for- 

 mer president of the Lynn Rubber Manufacturing Co., is still 

 with the new concern and will continue as superintendent in 

 charge of the manufacturing. W. L. Castillo, former assistant 

 purchasing agent of the Plymouth Rubber Co., is the purchasing 

 agent of the Kielstone Rubber Co. and L. E. Libby has assumed 

 the position of production engineer. 



Work is to be started in a short time on a large addition to 

 the plant of the American Wringer Co., Woonsocket. The ex- 

 tension will be on Pond street and is to be 182 by 66 feet with a 

 projection in the rear, 28 by 30 feet. There will be one high story 

 and one normal one, the height to be 45 feet. It will have steel 



frame, steel sash and brick walls and the work will cost approxi- 

 mately $100,000. A freight elevator will also be installed. 



K. T. Richardson, formerly branch manager of the Unitedl 

 States Rubber Co. at Portland, Maine, has been promoted to th* 

 position of branch manager at Providence. 



Walter Smith, of New York, formerly commercial agent for the 

 New York Central Railroad, has been appointed traffic manager 

 for the National India Rubber Co., at Bristol. James Cruick- 

 shanks, who has been holding the position temporarily, has been 

 appointed assistant superintendent of central stores. 



PAUL W. LITCHFIELD, FACTORY MANAGER. 



p.Mi. W KKKS LxTCiiflELD, vice-president and factory manager of 

 * TIic Goodyear. Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, has recently 

 completed twenty years of service with the company and is as 

 proud of the gold ser- 

 vice pin presented to 

 him as any veteran 

 workman who has been 

 similarly lioiiorcd 



Mr. Litchfield is of 

 iNew England ixti.u 

 tion, having been Iioin 

 in Boston in 1875, id 

 ucated in the i)nl)lu 

 schools and English 

 High School of that 

 city and graduated 

 from the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Tecli- 

 nology in 1896 with a 

 B.Sc. degree in chem- 

 ical engineering lie 

 was first employed .ts 

 a surveyor for the 

 •Massachusetts Metro 

 politan Park Coninii- 

 sion. After six nn iillis 

 he entered the cmplo> 

 of L. C. Chase & Co., 

 •Boston, manufacturer 

 of tire and carriage cloth, which 

 rubber industry. 



His next step came with a transfer to the New York Belting 

 & Packing Co., Passaic, New jersey, as foreman of tlie tnoMedH 

 goods and packing departments. From there he went to the- 

 superintendent's chair of the International Automobile & VehicJe 

 Tire Co., which later became the Michelin Tire Co.. of Milltowii,. 

 New Jersey. 



In 1900 he became associated with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber 

 Co. as factory manager, a position in which he has developed 

 remarkable capacity under an ever-increasing burden of responsi- 

 bility that now also includes the offices of vice-president and 

 director, and president of The Goodyear Cotton Mills. Inc., Kil- 

 lingly, Connecticut. 



Mr. Litchfield has been a keen student of the human clement in 

 factory management and his influence has made the Goodyear 

 company a leader in the modern idea of industrial relations and 

 welfare work. In 1915. at a banquet tendered him by the com- 

 pany on the occasion of his fifteenth anniversary with the organ- 

 ization, he presented a gift of $100,000 to be established as » 

 welfare fund for the benefit of factory employes. He is a firm- 

 believer in the participation of labor in the management and' 

 ownership of large industrial plants, and the large number of 

 Goodyear employe stockholders and the elective legislative body- 

 made up of employes and known as the Council of Industrial Re- 

 lations to rcijulatc sliop affairs are but practical applications of 



Paul W. Litchfield. 



his introduction to the~ 



