The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-22

placed in shape for operation cannot be stated, but 1t is firmly believed that it will be within the next twenty or thirty days. Just as soon as the re- organization is completed, some of the
 industries of the company can be start
 ed up on two weeks preparations. Em- ployment will be given to between 4,000 and 5000 men In Tennessee. Georgia and Alabama, when all the plants are
 started up agan. According to those
 who will have much to say as to the operations under the plans that are given out, industries in all three States are to be started up. The big steel rod. wire and nail mills located at Ensley need only few weeks work on steady operation, According to MT. Hassinger, who is slated for the pres idency of the company, the plants can be operated profitably.
 There Is some demand for the steel products turned out at the plants of this company. There will be no trou- ble to get a large proportion of the labor hack again when the time comes for a resumption of operations. For tunately all the labor got about all that was due before the receivers de- cided to close down the plants after the big concern was thrown into bank- ruptcy. Within two weeks 1t Is per lieved that enough pig iron could ha manufactured to start up the stee, plant at Gadsden and in less thsn 2 week after the steel plant was going be started up. With these plants in full operation. there would be but little lacking in the Birmingham district.
 The production at the big steel plant at Ensley of the Tennessee Company during the first week Of the resunap- tion was most satisfactory. After the first hour when the big plant started last Monday, there has been . large output and the steel, rail and other shapes that have been coming out have been most satisfactory. The products are being shipped about as rapidly as 1t is being produced. The steel rail will be used in the West and South west mostly. The Hartman system placed a good order, which Is being
 worked on first. after which other business will be cared for. The Ens- ley steel rail has established itself and the officials of the plant in this dis trict Is confident that there will be necessity to operate the plant steadily. The little army of labor employed at Ensley vii be greatly augmented next months when the influx of foreign labor will be felt. One thousand Ital- ians are said to be on their way from the old country again to take up work in and about the steel plant at Ensley. A large amount of new construction is proposed and for that reason 1t is be- lieved there will be need for all the labor that Is coming this way. As consequence of the large amount of labor that has returned to Ensley. there is an alarming scarcity of houses for the working people. Real estate deal. CTS are doing everything in their power to meet the demand and as conse- quence also the street car system Is doing big business in handling these people from Ensley to the various sue burbs of Birmingham and to the city where the houses are to be had.
 The coal production in Alabama is on the increase. The consumption of coal at furnaces. steel plant and other industries Is very heavy but outside of this there is a better demand. There Is hope that differences which prom. ise to come up between the commere cial coal operators and the union min CTS may be bridged over before July l, when the present contracts conclude, and that the trouble that was assured week ago may not be experienced. The commercial coal operators assert that they are due the same consider ation as is given at non-union mines and that the competition of the com panle6 Wnlch QO HOI IeCOBniZG the union miners is something that cannot be overlooked. The union miners re- ferred the demands of the commercial operators to their national board. There is belief expressed that no strike will be ordered. Such a strike would be felt more or less, even if there are less than 1000 members of the union now as against II 900 and 12,0O0 few years ago. Considerable coal from Alabama is moving out of the State with pros- poets of a heavier movement as the summer begins to draw to a close The coming fall and winter promises to see the coal shipments heavier than ever before. x
 No late announcements have been made in regard to the construction of a large number of new coke ovens by the Semet-Solvay Company, manufac- turers of by-products of coal at Ens- ley. IL. was stated a few weeks ago that plans were being drawn up look ing to the construction. of a number of coke ovens in addition to those already being operated by this company. The completion of the big tar reservoir at Ensley means that the by-productS of