Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-26
His Company Manufactures
AeropIane Parts and Other.
Things Britain Needs

Herman Ridder, who as president
and editor Of the New York Stats
Zeitung has been leader in condemn
ing the export OF arms, ammunition
and war supplies to the Allies. is also
president Ct a company which is tiding
over its financial difficulties by making
aeIoplane parts and other war supplies
for the British government, says the
Boston Pest Of May 80. 49,. &c..
This concern. the international
Typesetting Company, is at present
executing in its Brooklyn factory an
order for 400 aerOplane parts from
plans furnished by the British govern
mont ... -
Workmen in the Ridder plant are
executing enc large contract for Great
Britain. according to sketches bear
ing the imprint of .he Royal Aircraft
factory CT FarnSbOrOugh, England,
which is operated by the British war
office. IT,
Joseph f. Ridder, sen of Herman
Ridder. and secretary and treasurer OF
the international Typesetting Machine
Company, has desk in the factory il
the same room with Capt. Charles ID.
Palmer. the personal representative of
Erskine Hewitt, the receiver. -.
Although Herman Ridder has sail
that he has surrendered the companys
to the receiver, his son
has been found to be in close and
constant touch with the receivers rep
at the Ridder factory, and
to be constantly inspecting the work
of employees. ~:
When shown Photographic fac
smile of the Royal Airship factory
sketches, neither Joseph E. Ridder,
Capt. Palmer nor William II. Orpen,
super ntendent CT the Ridder factory,
attempted to deny that it represented
a large British war order. Joseph e.
Ridder said his father had nothing
more to say on the subject Receiver
Hewitt refused to see newspapermen.
Making Shell Gauges. H. \
Another large gang Of workmen in
the Ridder factory has been employed |
in the manufacture of gauges and tools
fer the manufacture Of guns and shells.
According to former workmen, some
of these orders are being executed
according to blue prints supplied by
the Remington Arms Company of the
United States and the Rose Hill Arms
Company Of Canada.
War supply machinery and parts are
being. shipped to various concerns
holding contracts for the Allies. On
May %, for example, consignment
Of aeroplane parts went to the Curtiss
Aeroplane Company, Buffalo, n. Y.
The flood of supply work which has |
caused the Ridder factory to run over. !
lime began last March. The company !
vent into the hands of receiver on /
Dec. 16, 1914. ". 49,.
On March /, 1915, new company
vas incorporated, entitled w. H. Or [
ZEN, Inc. Mr. Orpen has long been SUI
of the International Type /
setting Machine Company, which was
ounded and financed by Herman Rid
Ter and his sens, and still occupies /
hat position Nearly all of the new
var supply contracts are being
handled through w. H. Orpen, Inc.
One of the Ridder workmen was F.
". Schmitz of 120 West One Hundred I
md Ninth street, New York, employed
Is toolmaker in the Ridder Brooklyn
liant. He said:
Il worked in the tool room of the
Typesetting Machine
company, Brooklyn, from May to
fay 10, 1915. We were so busy with
var supplies that two and three work
men were using one wise.
THE jobs upon which | worked were
igs and gauges, which we're set up
nd finished from blue prints bearing
he name of the Remington Arms Com
ANY. Ilion, n. Y. The parts upon
which / worked were tools used in +
making guns and fixtures for guns
Charles Heyde. secretary of the
letal Workers Union, said: Several
oolmakers have told me that war sup.
lies were being manufactured in the
lidder plant for the Allies. Mr..
'chmitz, for example, stated that the
actory was turning out work for not
My the Remington Arms Company OF
he United States, but also the Rose
ill Arms Company of Quebec"
nth this inspector going about the
Joseph Ridder Is frequently seen