The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-04-09
THOUSANDS ADDED
TOLABOR'S ARMY

Youngstown, o., April 3-During
the next week, for the first time i'm
nearly a year, practically every de-
partment in every Mahoning valley
steel mill, will be operating in full
With single exception. every val
| ley blast furnace not undergoing re-
pairs is also in operation. The ex-
ception is a small emergency stack
of the Carnegie interests at Niles.
The Girard Iron Co. will have eigh-
ty-eight puddle mills and its skelp
mill operating.
Cleveland, o., April 4.-Out of the
east there came to Cleveland union
circles yesterday a tale of the great
est prosperity that the garment in
dustry has ever known.
Coming directly from New York
City, NJ. Perlstein, business organizer
for the International Ladies Garment
Workers Union, Columbia building,
sat at his desk yesterday and told his
associates of 10000 garment workers
who are working full time at highest
wages in the factories of New York
of a demand for skilled workers that
is insatiable; of firms so rushed that
they have been compelled to refuse
orders until May and of the indifinite
prolongation of the season which nor
mally closes April l.
Garment trade conditions in
Cleveland have been abnormally
good" said Mr.. Perlstein. But 1
was not prepared for the unusual
prosperity l found in New York and
in the east generally. The European
war is only one of the factors in slim
ulating business there. Wholesale
optimism for the simmer outlook is
widespread. Shortage of garment
workers is so keenly felt that en-
ployers are paying a bonus of IS for
each new emplOye."
In the seven months ended with
January the United States exported
1912 commercial motor vehicles val
ued at S10,989, ,442. This is an in
crease of 81 per cent. over the same
period a year ago, when only 436
trucks, worth $714,216, were sent
abroad, as computed by the National
Automobile Chamber of Commerce
from the monthly summary of the de-
partment of commerce for january
just issued.
The year 1914 was the poorest for
the American shipbuilder. The year |
1915 promises to be one of unprece-
dented activity. In the first thirty
six days of the present year, orders |
for forty-eight ocean vessels were
booked and among the lot was a con-
tract for the building of two ships for
British owners. The head of one of |
the large shipyards announces that
he has closed enough business to
keep 5000 men engaged for from
two to three years. Plans have been
drawn and prices asked for sixty
more ocean vessels. Apparently
every American shipyeard will be
working to capacity throughout the
year and the American merchant ma
rine will have the largest addition to
it's tonnage in history.
Chicago, ILL.,, April Evidences
of prosperity in the form of large or
ders for cars, blasting powder, har
vesting machinery and iron and steel
products greeted the month of April
as it was ushered in to day.
Several thousand men went to
work in Gary and Chicago, while
many more will be employed when
the Pullman Company, which has
just received $1,500,000 order, as
sembles the materials to fill it, and
when work opens on the new Field
Museum of Natural History later in
the month.
The best industrial news for Chi
cago and vicinity came from the Pull
man offices, where an order was re-
ceived from the Interborough, opera
ting the New York subway, for Ats
all steel cars. 1t will be thirty days
before the materials are assembled
and work begun. The order means
that the working force, which has
been steadily increasing the last few
weeks, must be still further aug
The Illinois Steel Co., has added
|, 900 men to it's pay roll by the open
ng of an additional blast furnace and
six new open hearth furnaces at
Gary. The forces at South Chicago
and at Joliet also have been increas-
I'd, but not in anything like the same 1
The tractor works of the Interna- !
.ional Harvester Co. here is employ {
ng 1,400 men, as against 700 a few ]
weeks ago. At the Deering works
ind the Mccormick factory 5000 are {
as compared to the 1000 {
,r 5000 on the pay rolls short time '
lgo. The twine factories of the har- /
yester company are running capacity. {
n general the International forces [
ire about rs per cent. of the number I
lsed in the extremely prosperous per-
cd before the war. |
The Aetna Powder Co. at Miller l
Ldded 200 men today to fill large l
rider for gun cotton said to have /
ome from the allies in the European !
var. s