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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



|Ni..vi-Mi.hK 1, 1918. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN AKRON. 



By a Special Corri'spflitdcnl. 



THE Gcivernment expects to move 40 per cent more freight 

 from the Middle West in 1919 than has been carried dur- 

 ing the present year. This means that trucks must assist the 

 railroads as never before, and that the coming year vi'ill go down 

 in truck tire history as one of the greatest. Rubber and other 

 Ohio industries are already planning an emergency program for 



short freight haulage over the 



highways by motor trucks, em- 

 ploying records, insurance, etc., 

 as in the case of railway 

 freight. Tlie State Highways 

 Transport Committee, appoint- 

 ed by Governor Cox, and of 

 which S. V. Norton, truck tire 

 manager of The B. F. Good- 

 rich Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, 

 is a member, is now making an 

 analysis of the total tonnage 

 hauled, the routes by which it 

 is or might be carried by motor 

 trucks, and the supply of 

 trucks and drivers. Every state 

 may well have similar infor- 

 mation in readiness in case of 

 need. 



Six nurses formerly in the 

 hospital department of The B. 

 F. Goodrich Co., Akron, are 

 now in service. Their pictures 

 are shown on this page, as fol- 

 lows : top, left to right— Ella 

 Brown, at a base hospital 

 somewhere in France ; Clara Bagent 

 Sheridan, Alabama ; Margaret Trew, 



untarily pledged themselves to work full time till our country 

 and its allies win the war." Three thousand employes have al- 

 ready signed this pledge and more are signing daily. 



Tlie Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. raised more than its quota 



(if subscriptions to the Fourth Liberty Loan in less than a week. 



One department averaged $168 for each employe, raising $8,000. 



Lessons in French were started in October at the Firestone 



Club for the benefit of girls employed by the Firestone Tire & 



Ruliber Company. 



H. G. Kitt succeeds F. M. 

 Morris, enlisted, as factory 

 liaymaster at the plant of the 

 Firestone company. 



Ilu Mason Tire & Rubber 

 Co., Kent, has been awarded a 

 contract by the United States 

 .•\rniy to manufacture rain- 

 coats. Additional space has 

 bien leased for the duration 

 of the war and the company 

 expects to be turning out 1,000 

 coats daily by January 1, 1919. 



The Electric Motor & Repair 

 Co., Akron, maintains a repair 

 department for the purpose of 

 repairing electrical equipment 

 of rubber factories. It also 

 otters the services of its engi- 

 neering department to its cus- 

 tomers. ^ ^ ^ 



Goodrich Nurses in Service 



at base hospital. Camp 

 in Porto Rico with the 

 American Nursing Corps ; below, on ends — Ruth and Mary 

 Sterley, sisters, at Camp Sherman, Ohio ; below, center, Mabel 

 Carlson, at Camp Meade, Maryland. 



Rubber Co., 

 Loan, thus \ 



Every employe on the pay- 

 roll of The Marathon Tire & 

 Cuyahoga Falls, subscribed to the Fourth Liberty 

 inning the 100 per cent honor flag 



Tlie Western Reserve Rubber Co., Akron, ha 

 capital from $10,000 to $50,000. 



sed its 



Employes and officials of The B. F. Goodrich Co. reached their 

 quota of $2,150,000 towards the Fourth Liberty Loan in less than 

 forty-eight hours. This did not include subscriptions from any 

 of the 125 branches maintained by the company or the $500,000 

 purchase by officials of the company in New York. 



In response to the call of the Government for material from 

 which to manufacture carbon to put in soldiers' gas masks. The 

 B. F. Goodrich Co. has put Captain L. D. Dana of its Gas De- 

 fense Division in charge of making collection throughout Summit 

 County of various kinds of fruit-pits and nut-shells. Govern- 

 ment trucks are being used and two tons have been collected 

 already. This material is being dried at Red Cross headquarters 

 in Akron. The public is urged to save and dry all such pits and 

 shells to contribute to the work. 



Ralph Moore succeeds A. H. Miner in the legal department 

 of Tlie B. F. Goodrich Co., Akron. 



Sixteen employes of the Goodrich company have been retired 

 during the last year under the terms of the company's pension 

 plan. One of these had been with the company 38 years and 

 11 others, periods varying from 15 to 31 years. Out of the 

 sixteen, four were in the same department and three others in 

 another one. 



The Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. has posted a card in each 

 department where all the employes have pledged themselves 

 voluntarily to work full time for the duration of the war. It 

 reads as follows : "The employes in this room 100 per cent vol- 



The .Avalon Rubber Manufacturing Co.. Akron, has increased 

 its capital stock from $50,000 to $200,000. 

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Akron factories, as well as the city, will contmue on Eastern 

 time until November 28, the Council having passed the neces- 

 sary resolution to make this effective. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND. 



By Our Regular Correspondent. 



LABOR shortage as a result of war conditions, coupled with 

 the forced temporary abandonment of work by those suf- 

 fering from the recent outbreak of influenza, materially curtailed 

 the output of the several plants manufacturing rubber goods 

 in Rhode Island. This was particularly discouraging because 

 of the fact that many of the establishments had fallen far be- 

 hind their schedules in production and delivery on contracts 

 during the six weeks' strike and shut-down previous to the first 

 of September. 



Orders in large volume continue to be received, but the offi- 

 cials find it impossible to keep pace with the increasing demands. 

 For some time a growing number of manufacturers, including 

 rubber concerns, have been taking the attitude, that for at least 

 the period of the war, immigration laws should be less stringent 

 in order that a normal supply of labor for manufacturing pur- 

 poses may be available. Throughout the state the rubber in- 

 dustry continues to be driven to its utmost, and notwithstanding 



