640 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[August 1. 1917. 



dranitc State Rubber Co., Manchester, N. H 2 100 



Hale, Alfred. Uubhcr Co. Hoston. Mr'ss 1 100 



Hanover Rubber Co.. West Hanover. Mass 1- oOO 



Hardman Tire & Rubber Co.. iioston. Mass 1 ,„ ,XX 



Hartford Rubber Works Co., Hartford, Conn 1.183 "fi?X 



Hauthavvav & Sons, Inc.. Iioston, Mass 1^ '.350 



H.ivcrhill Rubber Co., HavcrbdI. Mass 1 =0 



Hayward Rubber Co., Providence. R. I J -„ XXX 



Hazcn Urown Co., Brockton, Mass 1 ,STo2x 



Hood Rubber Co., Wat.rtown. Mas? 3.146 201,900 



Hope Rubber Co.. Providence, R.I 5 1 .730 



Howe. Oliver R.. Lynn, Mass 2 20O 



Jacoby, Ernest, Boston, Mass •» ^"O 



Jenkins Rubber Co.. Boston. Mass • ■ • ,1'5™ 



Johns-Pratt Co.. Hartford. Conn 238 35.000 



Killion Rubber Co., Horchcster, Mass 4 2.0;0 



Korker Rubber Mfe. Co., Reading, Mass 1 I'O 



Lawrence Rubber Co., Lawrence, Mass 4 , , Xnn 



Lowell Insulated Wire Co., Lowell, Mass / ^-'S^S 



Lvnn Rubber MfR. Co., Lynn, Mass = 230 



M'ason, Joseph, Waltbam, Mass 3 200 



Meade Rubber Co., Stoughton, Mass 30 1,400 



Mechanical Fabric Co., Providence. R.I 44 A650 



Monaticiuot Rubber Works Co., South Braintree. Mass... 10 ^^■'^ 



Monnier, Ernest .,^1 , „ 500 



Narragansctt Rubber Co.. Bristol. R. 1 203 1 0.200 



National India Rubber Co.. Bristol. R. 1 16^0 l^O-^Sx 



Needham Tire & Rubber Co., Charles River, Mass 60 6.JO0 



Onio Mfg. Co., Middletown, Conn 67 4.000 



Panther Rubber Mfg. Co., Stoughton, Mass 62 ,X''Sx 



Plymouth Rubber Co., Canton. Mass 24 10,000 



Reading Rubber Mfg. Co.. Reading, Mass 122 18.700 



Republic Rubber Co. of Mass., Boston, Mass 7 800 



Rider, P. R.. Worcester, Mass 3 2,200 



Rubber Rcgeneratini? Co.. Xaugatuck, Conn 340 /!0,yoo 



Ryan Ideal Stain Blacking Co., Lynn, Mass 12 2,150 



Sanford Mills, Readine. Mass 48 3,100 



Seamless Rubber Co.. Xew Haven. Conn 88 6.300 



Simplex Wire i';- Cable Co., Boston, Mass 262 116,350 



Springf\eld Rubber Co., Springfield, Mass 16 ,„ ' 52 



Standa^-d Woven Fabric Co., Walpole, Mass 330 30,000 



Stowe v'c Woodward Co., Campello. Mass 26 1,300 



Taunton Rubber Co., Taunton, Mass 13 630 



Tver Rubber Co.. Andover, Mass 298 . 28,000 



U S Rubber Co.. 130 Essex street, Boston. Mass 1 300 



t" S Rubber Co. of N. E., 280 Summer street, Boston. 



Mass 46 3 830 



U. S. Tire Co.. Worcester, Mass 4 300 



Whitnev Blake Co., New Haven, Conn 315 03.OOO 



Wood, I. W.. Elastic Web Co 52 10,000 



Woonsocket Rubber Co.. Woonsocket, R. 1 1.335 58.235 



Total 17,706 $1,754,455 



THE RED CROSS. 



Rubber companies and their employes responded generously 

 in the recent campaign to raise $100,000,000 for the Americah 

 Red Cross. Unfortunately the following list of donations is 

 far from complete, many companies not having announced their 

 totals. 



On Tune 22 Akron. Ohio, had exceeded its quota of $150,000 

 by $11,372 and a new mark of $200,000 was set. The team 

 headed by P. W. Litchfield, vice-president of the Goodyear Tire 

 & Rubber Co., had raised $15,800, and that headed by R. M. 

 Fillmore, president of the Mohawk Rubber Co., $5,168. Bar- 

 berton, Ohio, had raised $42,000. 



In a four days' campaign 98 per cent of the entire working 

 force of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, was 

 enlisted as members of the Red Cross. In all, 17,865 names 

 were secured. 



The Somerset Rubber Reclaiming Co., New Brunswick. Xew^ 

 Jersey, has enrolled all its men in the American Red Cross, 

 paying their dues for one year. 



The McGraw Tire & Rubber Co., East Palestine, Ohio, from 

 the president down to the janitors, contributed to this worthy 

 cause, the total being $1,600. 



The National Tire & Rubber Co., East Palestine, Ohio, gave 

 $600. 



The employes of the Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co.. Cam- 

 bridge, Massachusetts, gave $341.06, including the subscriptions 0/ 

 212 new members. 



AMBULANCE WORK. 



Richard G. Conant, for four years tire fabrics salesman for 

 Brighton Mills, Passaic, New Jersey, who sailed for France 

 June 30 as a member of the American Volunteer Ambulance 

 Corps, will drive a $3,000 ambulance purchased with a fund raised 

 by those interested in Brighton Mills and other friends of Mr. 

 Conant. 



COMFORTS FOR THF. NAVY. 



The young women in the various departments of the United 

 States Rubber Co., at the New York City offices have formed 

 a knitting unit, and now spend a portion of their lunch hour in 

 the footwear sample room knitting jackets, socks, wristlets, muf- 

 hers, etc., for the Comforts Coiumittee of the U. S. Navy League. 



ENLISTMENTS EXCEED GOVERNMENT QUOTA. 

 Of the 1,600 men of conscription age registered for the selec- 

 tive draft at the plant of the Hood Rubber Co., Watertown, 

 Massachusetts, 160, or 10 per cent, have already enlisted. This 

 exceeds the quota of about 7 per cent required by the Government 

 to give an army of 670,000 out of nearly 10,000,000 eligibles at 

 the first draft. Despite its many foreign workers this factory 

 seems to be a hotbed of patriotisin. Of the total 7,400 employes 

 about 5,000 are men. 



WOMEN TO REPLACE ENLISTED MEN. 



Women will replace many of the operatives in the plants of 

 the General Electric Co. at Lynn., East Boston and Pittsfield, 

 Massachusetts; Schenectady, New York; Harrison, New Jer- 

 sey ; Erie, Pennsylvania, and Fort Wajme, Indiana, many of whom 

 have enlisted and still more who will respond to the first selec- 

 tive draft. The names of 12,000 young women are already en- 

 rolled on the alarm list awaiting a call when needed. It is under- 

 stood that they will don overalls as the only sensible factory 

 uniform for their new work. 



At the Lynn, Massachusetts, factory, 63 apprentices in the 

 naval and military service were tendered a farewell reception 

 by their fellow employes recently. General Manager Walter 

 C. Fish, Chief Consulting Engineer, Magnus W. Alexander, 

 and Prof. Elihu Thompson delivered addresses. 



All employes will henceforth work a half hour extra each 

 week, their earnings being donated to the Mutual Relief Fund 

 for assistance to men in active service and their dependents. 



INCREASING THE FOOD SUPPLY. 

 The office staff of the tire factory of the Canadian Consoli- 

 dated Rubber Co., Kitchener, Ontario, has a splendid garden 

 near the factory which promises a bumper crop of beans and 

 other vegetables. Factory Manager Kabel and Superintendent 

 Gruenwald have been enthusiastic participants in the hard work 

 of plowing, planting and cultivating. 



COMMERCIAL ECONOMY. 



Just as consumers of foodstuffs are being urged to eliminate 

 all waste, to practice sensible economy and to discontinue the 

 use of certain articles, so business firms are requested by the 

 Commercial Economy Board of the Council of National Defense 

 to limit the number of styles of manufactured articles and the 

 practice of goods on consignment, that waste may be reduced 

 to the minimum ; to reduce or abolish retail deliveries that this 

 unproductive labor may be put to better purposes ; to adopt 

 concrete construction for their factory additions that war de- 

 mands for steel may be met ; and above all to imload every 

 freight car as soon as it is received in order to break the car 

 ^liortage. This latter practice will do more than any other single 

 factor to stop the coal panic and expedite a condition of fuel 

 sufficiency. 



Official statistics of the Department of the Interior indicate 

 that despite the extra demand in this country and the urgent 

 needs of our Allies, no one can doubt that the coal industry will 

 be able to supply all needs. Last year the production of bitu- 

 minous coal in the United States was the greatest in the history 

 of the country, but that record was exceeded by fully 20,000,000 

 tons during the first six months of this year. The difficulty of 

 distribution is the great problem, and notwithstanding the im- 

 proved car supply, this difficulty is likely to become intensified 

 during the coming winter months. 



