Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-29
FORD'S MAIN PLANT
RESUMES OPERATION
AFTER A SHUTDOWN
Large Steel Mill Employing
$500 Reopens, as Well as
Other Factories, Including
Cotton Mills


Ford Motor company's Highland
Park plant has been re-opened
| Many heads Of departments, steam
filters, foremen and millwrights
were called back to work. BY Mon
day it is said the big plant will be
operating at about twenty-five per
cent capacity. Three days a week
will be the working schedule at
present. The plant has been closed
for more than a month.
The men who were called back to
work today will : the plant into
shape for the resumption of pro-
duction. The first Jobs in the re-
opening are being given to picked
men who are notified by mail. Grad
ual expansion will bring thousands
back to work
NEW ENGLAND MILLS
TO OPEN NEXT WEEK
WINSTED, Conn, Jan. 2S.-An-
that the mills of the New England
Knitting company, and the Winsted
Hosiery company would be reOpened
next week. A reduction in wages of
about Is per cent will become oper-
ative. In normal times force of
about 1900 workers are employed.
STEEL COMPANY RESUMES;
$500 RETURN TO WORK
WARREN, Ohio. Jan. z8.-The
Trumbull Steel company. which has
been operating on about a so per
sumed full force operations at all of
it's thirtv-four mills last night and
today. About $500 idle men returned
to work.
BIRMINGHAM FIRM
WILL REOPEN SATURDAY
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Jan. Is
The local plant of the American
Radiator company was preparing
Friday for it's re-opening Saturday.
Six hundred men will resume work
for six days a week during an in
definite period.
TWO MILLS RESUME
OPERATION IN ACWORTH
ACWORTH Ca, Jan. 2S.--Two of
the principal manufacturing estab-
lishments of Asworth have resumed
operation after a suspension of sew
eral months. The plant of the Ac-I
worth Cotton Manufacturing COM
pany, manufacturers of high-grade
hosiery yarns. resumed operation
i
ment of Orlando Awtrey, president,
and j. c. Lewis, superintendent.
The Acworth Oil Mill, a branch of
the Southern Cotton Oil company.
also began operation this week.
TWO MILLS IN ROME
z4s4z4 TO RESUME MONDAY
ROME, Ca, Jan. 28.-The Rome
Hosiery mills and the Cherokee Ho-
siery mills, which have been operat-
ing on half time. will go to full time
Monday, and are advertising for adj
ditional help, stating that orders are
ahead to keep the mills busy for
months.
The Lindale Cotton mills, which
have been on a three-day schedule,
this week increased to four days per
week. @,
BIG REVIVAL EXPECTED
WITHIN SIXTY DAYS.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. 2S.-With-
in sixty days thousands Of industries
throughout the nation will reopen
and soon after business conditions,
will return to something like 1915
conditions.
This was the almost universal
opinion of officers and directors OF
the Association Of Reserve City
Bankers, who are holding a national
conference here today. -
( within a short time business con-
ditions will greatly improve" said
Geo. r. Rogers. vice president of the
Manufacturers and Trades National
bank, of Buffalo, N. Y, and secre-
tary-treasurer of the association,
said today. Labor conditions are
improving, automobile manufacture
ing plants will start to reopen aft
er March L."
All northern bankers are expecting
a great revival in trade within sixty
days, said Charles H. Marfleld, cash
Ter Of the Seaboard National bank.
New York City.