San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-18
Premiums Paid on Practi-
cally Every Product for
Quick Delivery.
NO PRICE INCREASES
Ford Plants Continue to
Break All Existing Pro-
duction Records.
BY j. c. ROYLE.
Copyright, by The San Antonio Light

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New York, April 1S.-Premiums on
practically every steel product are be-
ing paid today for immediate delivery
but price advances have not followed
wage increases.
There is a distinct feeling notice
able throughout the industry against
further price boosts for future deliv-
cry.
Plant managers indicated that they
would feel satisfied if the present rate
of operations can he continued even
permit them TO add TO their pay rolls.
Plant operations for the industry
in general are above 30 per cent of
capacity.
A somewhat similar trend is max
ing itself felt in other commodities as
the various firms open up their lines
for the fall trade. Shirts and hosiery
show slight advances. but in the ma.
jority of cases the price increases have
been extremely moderate when the
cost Of raw silk and cotton is taken
into consideration.
Railroad Buy Heavily.
The remarkable series of orders for
railroad equipment still continues the
feature of the steel industry and the
pressure on the carriers is growing
daily. An example of the insistent de-
manl for prompt handling is shown
by the fact that an order for 200 auto
mobile tires now is on the way from
Eau Claire, Wis, to Portland, Ore,
by parcel post, the purchasers willing
ly meeting the charge of $501 in order
to get prompt delivery.
Vessels are rushing preparations for
the opening of navigation to the up
per like ports and railroads through
out the entire Northwest are prepar-
ing for extensive maintenance and i'm
provements which give work 10 thou
sands of men.
The Northern Pacific has started
work on its new 34-mile line which
will connect the open pit semi-bitum-
nous coal mines in Southeastern
Montana with the main line which
will cost S2,500.000.
The S40,000,000 improvement pro-
gram of the Union Pacific road gives
promise of even further expansion as
the company is having some difficult
ty in securing laborers on its lines
which are being double tracked in
Wyoming and Utah.
Lynn, Mass, one of the big shoe
producing centers of the country, has
been precipitated into another shoe
war, which, unless it is settled speed
lily. will close 20 odds factories and
throw 1900 workers out Of en-
ployment.
The dispute, oddly enough, is not
between the majority of the workers
and the manufacturers, but between
two rival unions, the United Shoe
Workers, to which it is claimed 90 per
cent of the workers belong, and the
Amalgamated Union. which is an out.
growth of the old allied shoe workers.
The latter union presented demands
to the employers for a 80 per cent
wage increase and struck before an
answer was returned 20 their ultima
tum.
Unprecedented sales of motor vehi-
cles and farm implements are fore
cast by dealers throughout the great
grain growing sections of the North
west. Many transactions, which had
been held up because of bad weather |
have now been cOnsum-
mated and farm work will be well un-
der way throughout that section be-
fore the end Of this week.
Ford Plant Break Records.
Breaking records is becoming a
habit at the Ford plant.
The daily output record has now
been placed at 6495 cars and trucks.
The Ford tractor plant turned out 532
tractors in one day, which
also is a record, and the River Rouge
last week produced 9SO6 cy-
Under castings.
The previous high mark was made
a year ago when 9467 castings were
turned out.
Sales of the fertilizer companies in
the South have failed to come up to
and ran below the nor
NAL level in spite of the fact that cot
ton is at high point and that this
was expected to stimulate fertilizer
purchases throughout the South.
Many of the companies, however,
have been paid old accounts which
have been on their books as far back
,r 1910