San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-04
LAKE BOATS
ARE OFF To
EARLY START
Marine Men Expect Biggest
and Busiest Season
in History.
RAIL HEADS GATHER
Steel and Textile Indus
tries Announce In
creased Wages.
RAIL HEADS GATHER
BY j, e, ROYLE.

& copyright by Ine Saa Antonio Light.
New York. April 4.-Regular pas
senger and freight navigation on the
Great Lakes between Detroit. Toledo
and Cleveland opened Tuesday and
marked the formal beginning of what
is believed will be the busiest and
most prosperous season marine men
on the lakes have ever experienced.
April 3 is an unusually early date,
but the officials of the two lines in
volved declared that the industrial ac-
tivity in the Middle West. especially
in: automobile part and finished au-
tomobiles. is more than sufficient to
justify il.
Reports from Chicago indicate that
railroad car shortages are becoming
more pressing. Ice is still in evidence
in many upper lake ports, but scores
of vessels are prepared to sail as
soon as open water will permit their
leaving winter quarters.
Steamship men predict that ship
pers of dry goods and other lines of
merchandise will utilize water trans
portation TO u greater extent than
ever before.
Rail Men Gather Here.
Railroad executives held the first
of a series of meetings here to work
out plans for handlir the tremendous
volume of freight they see in pros
pect. Members of the board of direc-
tors of the American Railway Asso-
citation said that they expected the
roads would be called on to move an
even heavier load than 1920 and that
measures would be taken to utilize
equipment to the utmost.
Representatives of the North Allan
tic ports also gathered here today, and
it is expected that measu-ss will be
taken to meet the Canadian competi-
ton from the st. Lawrence ports on
shipments made by way of the Great
Lakes.
Announcements by the A. VI. Byers
Company of Youngstown. Ohio, of
wage increase from 36 TO 40 cents
. an hour for common labor and CORE
Spending advances in the wages of
other labor not automatically con-
trolled by the price of steel products,
marks the first of long-expected ad
vance in wage scales in the steel in
dustry. The opinion was freely ex-
pressed today, however. that the Unit
ed States Steel Corporation would de-
fer any possible action until the re-
turn of Judge Gary from abroad.
Textile Scales Stabilized.
Action of the Fall River and New
Bedford cotton mills in announcing
an increase of ~ IL per cent. affect
ing $4,000 operatives. will bring the
textile industry under fairly sta
bilized scale in both New England and
the South if the offer is accepted by
the unions next Thursday. Union rat
ification is generally expected in tex
tile circles. 4
Southeastern textile establishments
continue to report advances to their
employees ranging from 10 to 10 per
cent. In many of these southern mills
there are no unions and the increase,
therefore. is regarded as significant in
view of the developing rivalry between
the Southeast and New England.
The Georgia state board of ento-
mology has purchased 100000 pounds
of calcium arsenate, which will be
sold to cotton growers in lots as small
as 200 pounds at sixteen cents a
pound. 1t is estimated that this
method of distributing the boil weevii
poison will save farmers 80 per cent.
Auto Prices HesItating.
While no specific announcement of
additional auto price increases have
made their appearance, the Nash COM
pany has brought the price of its road
sters up to a par with the touring
models and Oakland dealers stated
they could not guarantee present prices
except for immediate delivery. Column
bia is out with a new special six
cylinder model priced at S1095, al
|, though the Columbia light six at $685.
E-f9t. affected.
The general opinion in automobile
circles is that the larger companies
are going to test out the effect of
the few increases already made. but
these indications show that the trend
Of automobile prices is definitely up
w,lrd.