Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-01-16
BETTER OUTLOOK IN
LOCAL INDUSTRIES
Some Have Resumed Normal
PROPORTIONS and Others Show
Improvement.

ENCOURAGING are tho reports Of the
various labor interests relative TO the
employment situation in Wilmington.
That conditions are gradually improv-
ing IL indicated. As the result OF a
survey by q reporter OF Every Even
Ing today in the shipbuilding industry
and textile plants in the city, 1t was
tho consensus OF opinion that condi-
lions In general arc better now than
for many months. In several instances
IL was found that plants are running
Mt normal capacity. At other places. II
was stated, work was picking UP and
although forces arc not employed in
large numbers, there arc men being
engaged each day.
At the Pullman Co. plant this morn
ing II was reported that conditions
therc had reached a. normal state. At
present IT'S men are employed In the
various working crafts. Early IN De-
cembcr several hundred employees were
Temporarily dismissed. these men have
all been reinstated, 1t was announced
today.
At tho Joseph Bancroft n Sons Co..
at Rockford. approximately 100 men
extra help Is being engaged now. the
outlook for the future is encouraging
according to officials at tho plant.
Extra labor Is being engaged from
day to day at the Jackson Il SHARP
plant OF the American Car and Foun-
dry Co, 1t was stated. Each week the
forces In the various departments have
been increased and an average Of 81
new men are engaged regularly each
week. At present the plant employs
approximately 600 workers. This mum
her is said to be almost normal. Only
one boat, q yacht, being built for Al
fred 1. du Pont. Is on the ways, how
ever. This boat will be ready fo'
launching within the next three
months, according to officials at tn
local yards. Most OF the present worl
at the plant Is inside work.
In the leather industry. conditions
also show Improvement. At the plant
of the New Castle Leather Co.
Eleventh and Poplar streets, accord
ing to J. Writ Willis, general manager
n total OF 200 dozen skins are treated
each day. Approximately 800 worker
, are now employed at this plant. TIL
normal capacity Is said 10 be between
/. ! 1 900 and LOO. Other leather plant
throughout the city are operating OF
a similar basis.
, Tomorrow night officials and rep
, resentatives OF the Wiltex Co, a neS
, industry to be established in WI
mington, will arrive from Baltimore
70 take preliminary steps toward open
: ing their new plant in the buildin
: leased from the du Pont Chemics
r Co, at Vandever avenue and Lam
mot street. Operation in the manu-
r facture OF high grade Palm Beac
1 suits is expected TO start the latte
{ part OF January. Approximately 40
: local girls will be employed as sew
e ing machine operators.
= At the Harlan plant OF tho Bethle
:, hem Shipbuilding Corporation. Ltd
4 this morning, it was declared that onl
s few new workers had been engaged
However, the for@ will be great
. INCREASED either the latter part OF thi
q month, or early in February. upon re
: ceipt of material already ordered 10
: the construction of IS all-steel rail
way coaches, to be built for the Phila
$ delphia & Reading railroad.
1t was reported thai 400 new me
had been employed this morning a
the General Chemical Co.'s plant g
!. Claymont. Every effort to confirr
: the report proved futile.