The Topeka state journal., 1919-11-11
Unexpected Industrial Awaken.
ing Came With Peace.
Nation Puts Pre-War Achieve.
ments in Shade.
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY RE-MADE
Americas Dinner Pail Is BuIg
ing With Food.
Reaction From Inflated War
Wages Still Troubles.

fhllduelpHla, NOV. 11.-S1nce peace
came a year ago today. an unexpected
industrial awakening seems to have
spread over this section of the manu-
featuring belt. in spite of the unrest
and uncertainty of the present time.
Altho the Philadelphia Chamber of
Commerce, which has made a survey
of industrial conditions and business
generally in this locality. claims it is
hard to make a general statement of
the situation because of the diversity
of business handled in this district. an
increased production is reported in
seven out of ten concerns in this city
alone.
The most tangible evidence of the
boom is noticed in the housing situa-
ton. The Chamber of Commerce an
nounced more than 1000 homes are
needed to house the overflow popuIa-
ton in Philadelphia. which constitutes
approximately 100000 additional in
habitantS.
Real estate men, to account for this,
point to the shipyards. where practi-
cally no let-up has been seen since the
ending of the war and steady force
has been maintained. The shipyard
worker filled a gap in the population
made by men who went away into the
service and when these men returned
the shipyard men remained.
But prosperity in one industry has
been accompanied by decline in the
productive activity of others.
Connecticut Bustling in Peace Time.
Hartford. Conn. Nov 11.-Connec-
ticut. the arsenal state of the ma
ton" during the great war. has turned
to peace-time activities-has made the
great change easily and completely
and is now going at full blast as a real
manufacturing center of peace-time
necessities.
How the factories and the workers
readjusted themselves to the new con-
ditions. following November IL, 1918,
and how Connecticut proved herself
equal to the task of meeting entirely
new conditions, and holding to the in
creased man-power that had been be-
slowed upon her in the dark days of
the fight with Germany is a tale of
achievement and initiative.
Hartford, the capital city of the
state. known thruout the war for the
production of machine guns, has
turned for one thing to the making in
quantity lots of sewing and adding
machines. Hartford was always noted
for its typewriters and computing ma
chimes. 4L
Bridgeport, after a short period of
interruption. has gradually shifted its
industrial gears from war to peace and
smoothly on the new basis. The city
has lost nearly 10000 workers since
the armistice was signed, men who
packed up their tools and kits and
sought new fields, but the city is going
right ahead with a safe and sane ad-
justment of conditions and an era of
prosperity in sight.
New Haven has made a quiet, but
permanent transition from the boom
of war times to the more steady and
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the city is now more prosperous than
ever it was before and the small arms
arsenal room of the nation is ready
for anything in the line of peace-time
endeavor and looking for a prosperous
period of years.
Cleveland Transition Easy.
Cleveland, o., Nov. 11.-Cleveland's
transition from peace to war and back
again from war to peace was accom-
of industry than any other large man
ufacturing city in the country, accord
ing to a canvass Of local plants.
In hardly more than a month after
the United States got into the war,
local plants were meeting nearly every
demand for war materials made on
them by the government.
In about the same length of time
after the peace began again, the plants
were back on a peace basis. The rea-
son is simple. None of the plants har-
messed to the great war machine found
1t necessary to install any considerable
amount of new machinery.
These plants had little difficulty and
lost little time in swinging back to
peace time labors. Trucks and auto
! mobiles made up the larger part of
Cleveland contribution to fighting ap-
pliances and the armistice simply
caused a switch in clientele-the gov
ernment giving way to private COM
panies and individuals.
The war has also given approx
mately 10000 workers to Cleveland's S
| permanent population, it is estimated.
| These workers came in from the farms
and villages and cities of lesser indus
| trial standing.
The only strike OF any consequence
| was the steel walk-out
Peace Re- Made the Valley.
| st. Louis, Nov. 11.-Sausages and
other food specialties are being ground
out by factories here which a year ago
| War Lord Mars.
st. Louis factories have hit their
| peace-day stride and gained momen-
tum in the twelve months since they
were driving night and day to main
tain maximum war production.
4 Many lines have developed material
beyond a pre-war basis" says the
latest report of the Federal Reserve
bank. The number of employees has
| increased in the last year and a short
| age of labor exists. Wages are from
| 40 to 100 per cent higher" the report
says, adding: Many new industries
| have been established" The state
ment shows increases in business in
virtually all lines with general condi-
| tions tending upward.
| Street cars. steel rails, food supplies,
| clothing. farm implements-the whole
| list of Deace products are mourning
again from factories here
| Peace brought warm labor circles
Since peace came there have. been
| more capital and labor wars than ever
before in st. Louis's history, according
| to officials here. None, however, has
assumed serious proportions
| Production has suffered but slightly
with industrial strife swayings here.
Resumption of building has allayed
considera Bile industrial unrest, Officials