Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-09
TRADE DEPRESSION
At END, NATIONAL
| SURVEY INDICATES
Industrial Leaders of Many
Sections Point to Increase
in Employment.
MANY LINES REPORT
ADDITIONAL ORDERS
Signing of Anthracite Wage Agree
ment Means Steady Output
for Nearly Six Years.

bers are stating their DeneI IldI ue-
preston has touched bottom and that
business is now on the upturn.
L, M. Klinedinst, vice president OF
the Timken Roller Bearing Co.. is
among those to hold this CONVECTION
and in proof he offers the return OF
5000 workers to the company's plant
In Canton, Ohio, next Monday. ,
Thousands of workers have gone back
70 the automobile factories in Detroit
and r. w. Woodruff, president OF the
White Motor Co. and the Coca-Cola
Co. which, together, employ $4,000 per-
sons. believes the business slump mas
been exaggerated and Is largely psy-
Geological anyhow. 80 ,,,.i-
To determine to what extent puSl-
ness NAV be improving, as evidenced
in part by the return of workmen 70
their Jobs. The Star and the Nortn
American Newspaper Alliance nave
made an inquiry throughout the coun-
fry. and present the following reports
Improvement in Syracuse.
SYRACUSE. N. with several OF
%he more important industries r entLHns
old employees who hadn't peen MoiAns
for months and other IacVoItes cit
-nouncing increases in orders, 1t Is lelt
here that a general improvement" ~
business is not far away. .u,
The II H. Franklin Manufacturing
70 automobile builders, during Cne
So.} vJeek rehired scores OF employes
H-ho had been laid off since last VIM
ter They announce that condltlons II
their organization are showing constant
improvement. 2o..o,, ar+o-
increase in business in Detrolt auto-
mobile factories is renecpeo NJ,
Large Syracuse companies naAg 9
gears are operating nearer holnlal
Capacity than in months.
with importations of forelgn-made
,actterv c,Irtailed by the new ta[ln'
6fhcials of the Onondaga Pottery Co.'
1a-re producers of all kinds OF pottery
believe conditions in their industry are
sure to improve.
Textile Mills Resume.
CHARLOTTE, N. Impressive
evidence of an improved business QUIZ
look in Charlotte is Resumption LII, ~
work in textile and knitting MUS
closed for short periods this Summer.
Two plants in Charlotte idle recently
are back inN operation. ..,,.
One. the Anterior Mills, textlie
manufacturers, had been closed SIX
weeks. It employs 200 operators. Inc
Charlotte Knitting Mills, closed IWo
months, is again in fun SWING VIII
100 operators. Inc NepeI H 1Iu;n.-,ss
is running on a 24-hour day schedule
To meet trade demands. This company
operates two plants and employees oOo
THOSE in close touch with the tex
tile situation throughout the Pleomont
region, say the Charlotte situation is
characteristic of the textile actlVlVies
and outlook in that district.
Harold D. Leslie, manager OF the
charlotte Industrial Bureau, says:
believe we have turned the corner.
Renewed manufacturing activity Is
taking place in many lines, ana l De
iieye we will see a sound and STEADY
return to normal, although DO not
look for any great expansion OF proouc-
ton facilities for some time: o
There has not been much more
than A seasonal curtailment in manu-
featuring. Most of the Unemployment
has resulted from slackening In as
tribution and transportation agencies,
which are dependent on natlonal raIneL
than local conditions, and which VIII
improve as soon as the upward treno
has definitely asserted itself.
william Nobel, president OF the Neoel
Knitting Mill Co., says:
Conditions in the trade apparently
are much better now than even lew
weeks ago. The market has hit the
bottom and now is going back up slow
Iy, That probably means business Will
be brisk for us hereafter"
Milwaukee Little Hurt.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis.-Preparing for
Fall and Winter business, industrial
activities in the Milwaukee area show
distinct signs of holding at the present
level most of August, but with increases
probable in September.
Diversification has enabled Milwaukee
to pull through the first half year
period with few shutdowns. Half-year
reports by leading industries show as
many gains in sales and net profits
as losses, as compared with the 1929