Evening star., 1923-04-17
DvANCE in STEEL
PRICES UNLIKELY
(nt Managers Greatest
Aim to Keep Up Pro-
ducti0n.
ny j. C. ROYLE.

ial Dispatch to The Star
lew YORK, April 17.-Premiums
bra ctically every steel product are
g paid today for immediate deiiv-
hut nrice advances have not foi-
ed wage increases. There Is q ois-
feeling noticeable throughout
industry against further price
SITS for future delivery. rant
agers indicated today that tney
Id feel. satisfied If the present
of operations can be continued
if the recent wage increase
not permit them to add TO thelr
rolls. Plant operations for the
1shry in general are above 30 per
of capacity.
somewhat similar trend is max
itself manifested in other COM
, dities as the various firms open up
ir lines for the fall trade. SHIRTS
hosiery show light advances, out
the majority cases the price IN
kases have been extremely moder-
when the cost of raw SILK ana
ton Is taken into consideration.
Railroads Buying Heavily.
rhe remarkable series of orders TOR
{lroad equipment still continues tle
&ture of the steel industry anu .iie
assure on the carriers is grow lns
lily. An example OF the ineisesne
nand for prompt handling IS snoWh
the fact that an order for 200 auto
bbile tires now is on the way from
u Claire, Wis, to Portland, ore" Dy
reel post the purchaser Willingly
keting the charge of 1901 in order to
II prompt delivery.
Vessel owners are rushing prepara-
bns for the opening of Navigation
the upper lake ports. and railroads
froN ghout the entire northWsse are
3eparing for extensive maintenance
IA Improvement programs when VIII
Ee work to thousands of men. Ihe
8rthern Pacific has started Work on
new thirty -four-m mile line, which
LII connect the new open-pit semi
luminous coal mines in southeast
h Montana with the main nne'
tich will cost S2.500,000.
@rhe S4O,000.000 improvement pro-
am, of the Union Pacific road gives
pmise of even further expansion, as
company is having some dlfaculty
securing laborers on its lines,
bich are being double-tracked In
Eoming and Titan.
Labor Difficulty Threatens.
lynn. Mass.-One of the big shoe
bducing centers of the country mas
In precipitated into another shoe
r, which, unless 1t is settled speed
will close seventy-odd factories
b throw $4,000 workers out of en-
Iyment. The dispute, oddly enough
not between the majority of the
rkers and the manufacturers. but
ween two rival unions. the United
be Workers, to which it is claimed
per cent of the workers belong
h the Amalgamated Union. which
an outgrowth Of the old allied shoe
rkers. The latter union present
demands TO the employers for a
per cent wage increase and struck
fore an answer was returned to
eir ultimatun.
Enprecedented sales Of motor We
lies and farm implements are fore
bt by dealers throughout the great
ain growing sections of the north
st Many transa ctions which had
In held I'D because .of bad weather
hditions have now been consum-
ted, and farm work will be well
her way throughout that section
ore the end Of this week.
Ford Plant Breaking Records.
Breaking records is becoming a habit
the Ford plant. The daily output rec
has now been placed at 6,494 cars
I trucks The Ford Tractor Plant
med out 532 Fords on tractors in one
.y, which also is a record. and the
|ker Rouge foundry last week produced
F O6 cylinder castings. The previous
gh mark was made year ago when
[67 castings were turned out.
Sales of the fertilizer companies in
s south have failed to come up to ex-
citations and ran below the normal
kel, lin spite of the fact that cotton is
high point and that this was ex-
|cted to stimulate fertilizer purchases
kroughout the south. Many of the COM
Enies, however, have been paid old ac-
UNITS, which have been on their books
far back as 1919.