Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1913-03-15

The following letters received by
The World are self-explanatory:
The following letter was received
by the board of trade yesterday from
Mr.. John Wyekoff Mettler. president
of the interviewer Stocking Com
pany:
Il have read with interest an ar.
ticle appearing in the Martinsburg
Evening Journal, issue Of March 9Th,
setting forth the possibility of a
new industry coming to Martinsburg
and employing women and girl
workers. and indicating that this
matter has the support of the board
of trade of your city.
while it Is not my purpose to In
terfere in any way with any plans
which you may have for the develop
ment and growth of the city of Mar
tinsburg, in the future of which we
are quite as much interested as Your
SELVES, II Ht'tithciSSs StcHns oppot-
tune to call attention at this time to
the fate that the interviewer Mills
are almost continuously short of help
and report daily on machines being
out of operation from this aus
1--WE have more than doubled our
Machine Shop capacity at New
Brunswick and have plans completed
for further building construction at
Martinsburg and for the installation
of considerable additional machinery
there; but, owing to the shortage of
held, we are obliged to proceed with
caution in this matter, and if it is
clearly defined policy of your body to
secure additional enterprises at this
time which will give employment to
girl and women workers, it would nat
urally furnish a very proper basis
for our accepting the offers being
held out TO us by more than a score
Of cities within a radius of $50 miles
of Martinsburg, in several of which
an ample supply of labor is guaran-
teed and s~ubstaniated by facts
brought to our attention.
Il think your attention has been
previously called TO the fact that we
are in a position to give employment
In all women and girl workers who
r,olsRoa co- eArxsaa In INV mod.
ern factry; that we are willing and
anxious to steadily increase our
plant at Martinsburg so as to con-
~tinuously keep apace of the increase
in the labor supply of your commune
ty, thus insuring employment to all,
and that it is our policy to extend
the preference to Martinsburg with
respect to all future enlargement,
increasing our plant there as much
as possible considering labor condi'
tions) and increasing our factory IA
cilities elsewhere only in so far as
may be made necessary by the short
age of labor at Martinsburg,
Il trust you will give the above
facts the consideration they merit
and The interviewer Mills your earn
est cooperation in its effort to give
hlgh-class, yell-paid employment to
every suitable woman and girl work
er in your city and its immediate
enyirons."
l wish to emphatically indorse
every word of the above letter and
would add. that, all reports to the
contrary Notwithstanding, not one
competent girl or woman has been
turned away from the mills who has
applied for employment
CHARLES w. KILBOURN,
President
THE INTERVIEWER MILLS, INC.
Reply Sent to the Company.
The following reply was sent the
interviewer Stocking Company today
by the Secretary Of the Board Of
Trade;
Martinsburg. w. Va, March IS, 1918
Mr.. John Wyckoff Mettler,
President, interviewer Stocking Co.