Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-31
DUBUQUE TO BE HOME OF cABl.
NETS FOR EDISON TALKING
MACHINES.
RRuNSWICk.B ALkE COMPANY
SECURES IMMENSE CONTRACT
Plans Eventually to Make All Cabinets
For Company at Dubuque Plant.
Jobs to Be Open For 800 to 400 Skilled
Mechanics-Force at Plant to Be
Doubled.

Dubuque. July BIB, e. BensinScr,
president of the Brunswick Bake Col
lender Company, and Mr.. Shank, SUI
perintendent of factories for the COM
pany, were in Dubuque perfecting ar
engagements for the employment of an
additional large number of skilled me-
chances. They spent the day at the
company's factory in the north end OF
the city in consultation with Mr.. John
Ehrenpreis, Superintendent of the COM
pany's local plant.
II was announced by Mr.. Bensinger
that the company has completed all
arran gements with the Edison COM
pany for the manufacture of all that
company's photograph cabinets. The
company in the past year has been DO
ing a part of the Edison companys
work at Dubuque and other factories,
hut this has been largely experimental
only temporary or current contracts
being handled. Now the Brunswick
Bake Collender Company is to have
the building of all the Edison cab
inets.
Mr.. Bensineer Talks.
"Our prime object here today, Mr.
Rensinger said. is to devise ways and
means TO secure skilled mechanics for
the DUBUQUE factory We now nave
about 400. We need 800 or 400 more
right now. must employ 700 to 500 IN
the next few weeks or months II we
are to keep pace with the demands OF
the Edison company But how TO get
The men here or rather how to induce
them 10 stay here is the question thal
has puzzled US for We can easily secure
plenty of skilled mechanics.
The trouble has been that the men
we have brought or sent here have
been unable to secure homes for their
families. at least to secure them IN
convenient parts of the city Most OF
the class of men we employ are mar
ried and have families They can't be
induced to remain long away from
their families We believe we have
finally solved the problem We nave
determined to erect a large number OF
houses on our property in the north
end of the city. houses for our men.
They will not be cheap affairs, but VIII
be modern. will have gas. electricity
water. bath and such other things as
go TO the make up of modern nome
and TO make life worth living.
Will Rush Work.
I'VE will commence work on these
houses in few days and will nave
fifteen or twenty of them under way
before the middle Of August. We VIII
conplete them as soon as possible and
will proceed TO the building of others
lust as rapidly as the work can De
done. Inside of a year we expect to
have completed a hundred or more of
these homes.
"Of course building these homes will
not furnish quarters for the men and
their families immediately but it Will
enable us to secure men when they
know that within few weeks or
months at the farthest they can have
their families with them.
?-:.o:ra! CABINET Plant.
Our contract with the Edison COM
panv is such that We will do all of
their cabinet work. For the present
or until we can secure enough help
here a considerable part of the work
must be done at our factories estab-
lished at other places in the country
However. we expect TO make this the
principal plant for the manufacture OF
cabinets and to employ 1000 to 1900
men.
1--WE are now two months behind
our orders and that means consider
ably in excess Of a quarter of mill
lion dollars. We must and will catch
I'D with the orders. When We have
everything going as it should, the out
put will be at the rate of above ESQ
cabinets a day.
May Assemble Photographs Here.
But this is not all We have the
Edison company's business so well in
hand that we expect at no distant date
to make this the sembling plant
where the motors and all machinery is
installed for all monographs sold in tht
middle west and far west. This would
mean a greatly enlarged plant and the
employment Of 5000 to 1000 men, all
skilled workmen. all men drawing good
wages and employed steadily turnout
the entire year.
But as have said before. the home
proposition is the one which has handi-
capped us. We believe we have that
problem solved and that our Dubuque
factory will quickly become our prin-
cipal one"
BONUS FOR WIDE TIRES.