The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-17
For Good of
 the Community
Fay Rolls lnUolUed-St eel and IronP Production In the Birmingham District Are 100 Per
 Cent Local In Distribution and Spending

LEADING retail merchant and prominent manufacturer "A met at downtown lunch counter for their midday feed After exchange of salutations and reaching the pie stage of the lunch the retailer turned to the manu acturer and made inquiry to how it going out at his plant.
 The retailer said: You know, depend on the pay rolls and they from the manufacturing plants Not only for present purposes but for guidance in the laying in keep eye smokestacks The presence of smoke of the old rolling mill in days gone by barometer of business We joke about now but it serious matter with when it's tunnels failed blacken the atmosphere
 Birmingham pulled we'll through the period of depres- son It was payrols They not the payrols of flush times but added to the surplus of the thrifty carried from flush times. they filled the breach sufficient straight steering purposes
 Records of the port of Mobile show that for the first six months of the year 900 tons of steel rails and 1000 tons of track exported through gate and that all these rails from the Birmingham mills Since January and to this time exports of rails and accessories out of Mobile have amounted 1300 900 tons valued at $3,250OOO.
 Adding the value of the iron pipe structural and house machinery and including the shipments to the Pacific coast the value of the 100000 tons of metal products of Birmingham going out of port of Mobile in if teen sangs of ships built by the Chckasaw Shpbuildng and Car and operated by the thmian Steamship company in the half year was $5,500,000
 Now the difference between that steel products shipped out of Birmingham and of Psburg would be th Pittsburg would have gotten onehird cent payrOS the production these rais pipe and the ke while the Birmingham district gets every penny of payrolls involved in production.
 Pitsbdrg buys in Minnesota and pays freight the lake front and freight to the furnaces Her coal from middle Pennsylvania at high freight All that money goes to distant workers and railroad opera tives.
 Birmnghams raw materials out of her back yard. Mining payros and transportation payros paid to who spend their money Birmingham In the of iron pipe the pig iron, which is wothrds of the cost made the district and that stays home The money for the coal that into the coke paid out in the district and remains here.
 Outside of few minor items in the seel-makng mixture the whole cost from the finds expression in local payrols percolating into the stores of Birmingham.
 Had that $500 OO0 of stuff gone Ptsburg third to half of the payros involved in production would have been Pitsburgs All the payrolls involved in the acture of iron and steel in Birmingham district is B mngham payroll and all into local channels of trade Shall manufacturing establishments entire pay roll goes into local circulation be supported turn by those who depend them? What true of the Tennessee company it's big operations true of mattress overall box and other factories and wholesale houses ploying men and creating payrols
 Yours for upbuding,