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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1. 1915. 



I hk India Rubber World. The superintendent and 

 ei is \. V Peterson, a well known rubber man, 

 Formerly superintendent for the I. & M Rubber Co., of Carroll- 

 ton. Ohio. Mr. Lionel Emden, treasurer and general sales man- 

 is an automobile tire salesman who knows the business 

 ise of an idea of his that the com- 

 pany came int. > existence. 



Weatun of th icern's output will be an all white tube. Mr. 



Peterson exhibited a I this tubing to a reporter for The 



India Rubber World. The piece had been clamped into a kinked 

 ti m for a long time yet when it was released there was not 

 the slightest indication ol weakening and the most seven test 

 applied tailed ti i disi ii >se a flaw. 



It is planned to have an initial output of 50 tires and 50 tubes 

 a day. There is ample provision for rapidly increasing this capa- 

 city The general sales offices will be located on Broadway, New 



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The Mecca Tire Co. is just getting ready for business in its 

 new Trenton plant. The foundation work for the engines, boilers 

 and other heavj equipment has keen placed and the machinery 

 is n iv being installed. I. T. Layton & Co., of Philadelphia are 

 marketing the shares in tins company. 



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Two hundred workmen have keen added within the past couple 

 ■ i force of the Empire Rubber & Tire Co. General 

 C Edward Murray, president of the company, said in a recent 

 interview that the outlook for the coming season is bright in 

 almost all lines, except that there could be a better demand for 

 mechanical pn iducts 



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i lab rers an clearing awaj the debris of the big 

 the Roebling plant. F. W. Roebling states that as soon as 

 new buildings can be erected a strenuous effort will be made : 

 catch up with hack orders 



Ferdinand W. Roebling recently donated to the Union Indus- 

 trial home of this city $20,000, as a permanent endowment fund, 

 in memory of the late Mrs Margaret (1. Roebling. 



Superintendents and foremen of the Roebling plant at Roebling, 

 New Jersey, to the number of about 40. held their seventh annual 

 banquet Februarj 10, at the Roebling Inn. 



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Acme Rubber Manufacturing Co. is working full time, 

 with '(Hi hands. Commencing tin- month they are working 

 overtime in some departments. 



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Article, of incorporation have keen filed by the Hyatt Auto 

 Top Co, This concern will deal in rubber and other equipment 

 fi i automobiles, cars, carriages and boats The capital stuck is 

 - i 000 



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I dward H. Sutterly, who for many years has heen one of the 



department heads of the Vulcanized Rubber Co., at Morrisville, 



ue Trenton, has retired from the rubber business to take a 



position ;l s Postmaster of Morrisville. His former employes have 



presented him with a valuable h suitably inscribed. 



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Rubber manufacturers, especially the tire people, are keenlj 

 interested in the fate of a resolution presented in the State I 

 lature by Senator Hutchinson providing for the submission to 



the i I a proposed amendment to the State constitution 



ther things the resolution provided that on and after 



July 6 of this year 50 hours shall constitute a week's work in 



any factory, shop or other pace where the manufacture of any 



g Is is carried on. The periods of employment shall be from 



7 A. M until 12 noon and from 1 until 5 P. M., every day except 



Saturday, when work must cease at 12 o'clock noon. Under this 



■! 1 he impos the rubber companies to wor'< 



in night shifts, which some of the tire concerns are now doing. 

 The bill has already been favorably reported by committee. Inas- 

 much as the passage of the resolution would prevent the issuing 

 of morning newspapers and the operation of gas and electric 

 lighting plants, in addition to the other havoc it would work with 

 conditions in general, it is hardly probable that it will ever get by 

 the legislative body. 



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It may he interesting to nailers of this paper to know that 

 there are 20 rubber factories in Trenton. 



THE RUBBER TRADE IN RHODE ISLAND. 

 By Our Regular Correspondent. 

 ' I 'HERE has heen no cessation in improvement in business 

 •*• conditions among the rubber factories of this state. Prac- 

 tically all of the plants are running on full time, with incre; 

 orders ahead, while some are working extra hours. In con- 

 sequence, all the competent rubber workers in this vicinity have 

 steady employment, expert operatives being in demand Weal 

 conditions, combined with the effects of the European war, have 

 resulted in bringing about the most active business situation 

 enjoyed by the rubber industry in a long time. This is con- 

 clusively shown by the reports received from all sides. In some 

 places, notably at Bristol, the concerns are even confronted by a 

 labor scarcity problem. 



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Colonel Samuel P. Colt, president of the United States Rubber 

 Co. and of the National India Rubber Co., Bristol, in speaking 

 recently to the Bristol school authorities, announced material 

 changes and increases at the plant of the National concern, 

 whereby the number of operatives would he increased by 500 

 to 1.000, conditional upon the securing of expert* workers. At 

 present there are about 2.500 employed in the factory, prin- 

 cipally working on the production of lawn tennis shoes and 

 insulated wire, lie also stated that he expected that these con- 

 ditions would he permanent. This is akout 100 per cent, increase 

 over the average. 



The new force will he employed gradually and it is underst 1 



that nearly another 500 will he taken on as soon as the building 

 now under construction is completed and alterations have been 

 made in several of the old buildings. This company is con- 

 fronted by a serious problem in properly housing so many 

 people and is making efforts to. provide living accommodations 

 for the increasing number of workmen and their families who 

 have come into the town. The company's orders have been 

 piling up rapidly, although the plant is now turning out some- 

 thing over 25,000 pairs of tennis shoes daily, which will he in- 

 creased to a production of approximately 35.000 per day. 



To eliminate danger to the employes .if the grinding and 

 calendering departments of the factory of the National com- 

 pany, a patent device for instantly stopping the machinery and 

 preventing injury has been installed in several of the sections 

 of -haftuig in the departments named. In case of accident, a 

 clutch connected with the shafting and operated by an electrical 

 appliance stops the shafting and gears. 



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An organization under the name of the United Motor Indus- 

 tries of Rhode Island was formed at the Narragansett Hotel. 

 Providence, on the evening of February 4. by a large repre- 

 sentation of automobile, tire and auto accessory dealers and 

 others of this state, who have a common interest in the fact 

 that all sell automobile tires. The organization aims to act as 

 a hoard of trade for the industry in this state, settling trade 

 questions, unifying practices and bringing into better acquaintance 

 and better agreement the dealers in automobiles and parts. 



A preliminary meeting had been held previously, under the 

 auspices of A. M. Bannister, manager of the Providence branch 

 of the Goodvear Tire & Rubber Co.. of Akron. Ohio, and S. H. 



