The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-22
BUSINESS MEN
SEE PROSPERITY
SWEEPING STATE
Restored Confidence Clearly ADJ
parent and Signs Point to
Rapid Recovery.
INDUSTRIES REPORT
BIG IMPROVEMENT
Work for Thousands More Soon.
Newark to Be Represented
at Big Convention.


New Jersey is to be one of the first
States to get within the charmed pros
perity circle after months Of struggling
with the octopus of discomfort, and an
i~ll-advised feeling in some quarters
that the country was in the throes OF
a panic which would mean all of the
suffering and privation incident to
commercial and Industrial inactivity.
In Newark conditions have assumed
a roseate hue, optimism has triumphed
over walls, and predictions of men who
Joined the Optimist Club of New Jer-
sey have been fulfilled to the letter.
From all portions of New Jersey come
tidings hat the advance agent of pros
perity has been followed by the big
show, and that the performance prom
Uses to be continuous.
Throughout New Jersey the an
nouncement made in New York that
Is, 900 employees of the United States
Rubber Company, associated with sew
enteen factories controlled by the trust,
would receive restoration of moneys,
approxii1ating losses from the old
wage scale, from July | to date. has
been received with joyous acclaim.
The old rate of wages will be restored
and a monetary reimbursement given,
according to the edict of the rubber
trust. The healthy progress made dur
ing the first few months in branches
OF trade Is responsible for the renewal
of full time in the various factories of
the ubber trust, according to the notice
given to employees. John j. Watson,
treasurer and director of the United
States Rubber Company. says that a
misunderstanding existed and that the
wages of the men We're not reduced.
They were asked to work from Il to
% per cent. less the time allotted to
them previously.
All At work In Two Months.
Prosperity is returning to New Jersey.
According to information gathered by
the State Bureau Of Statistics reports
nave been received by the department
from Lila manufacturing plants, and
of this number 642 found 1t necessary
TO lay off employees. In not one in
stance did employees have to submit
TO a cut in wages. Only s%ixty-nine
firms report cancellation of orders, and
all manufacturers are enthusiastic at
the outlook.
approximately 270, 200. or 10 per cent.
of the total population of the State,
are dependent for a livelihood upon
some form of manufacturing industry,
with a payroll aggregating $3.50, 000,-
900 and an aggregate output of $775, 600
900 in normal years. OF the firms re-
porting but twenty-siX establishments
found 1t necessary to buy currency last
fall. 1t is predicted that New Jersey
labor will be fully employed within two
months.
Calamity howlers will have no place
at the mammoth prosperity convention
In New York August IA and 10, under
the auspices of the Two largest and
most influential travelling mems organi-
cations in the United States, the United
Commercial Travellers n the Travel
ers' Protective Association.
Like the Optimist Club of New Jer-
sey, the knights of the grip believe tina
a feeling of confidence and optimism
should be promoted throughout the
business world. In fact the travellers
are not sure that there has been any
serious restraint Of trade or industrial
conditions. Many Newark commercial
travellers will attend the convention.
The combined membership of the
two travelling mems organizations men
toned above is Sc, 1000, and for some
time both organizations have been con
Quoting a prosperity campaign. Each
member has from time to time been
furnished with encouraging information
about crops and business. The officers
of the Commercial Travellers Interstate
Prosperity Congress, who will have
charge of the gala prosperity doings.
are: Herman A. Metz. comptroller of
the city of New York; w. w. Moss.
famous all over the world as a tobacco
salesman; John S. Whalen, secretary of
State of New York: William r. John
son, Mayor of Knoxville, Tenn; Man
ley j. Hemmens, of Green Bay, Wis.
who was recently made supreme coun-
cilor of the United Commercial Travel
ers; Charles C. Daniels. Columbus. o:
W. NJ. PEBBLES, Detroit, Mich; William
E. Warner, A. f. Morford. New York;
j.. E.. Clute, former president of the
New York State division of United
Travellers. and many others, including
executive officers of thirty-four com
mercial travellers organizations.
100000 Optimists.
The publicity committee is composed
of many editors Of trade journals and
prominent travelling men. The gross
membership to be represented at the
convention will be over 800, 900. 1t is
understood that the cost of spreading
the prosperity movement is to be de-
frayed by New York commercial travel
ers. The Commercial Travellers Inter
state Congress asks no dues or any
kind of assessment. A fine banner will
be stretched across Broadway near
Chambers street with the inscription,
Faith in Our Country's Future Is the
En..AlnAiaA-n Drn.nnnitr.