The Indianapolis times., 1930-12-26
JOBS OPENED
BY FACTORIES
IN TWO CITIES
Total of $50 Obtain Work
in Marion and Mum
Gle Plants.
BETTER TIMES FORECAST
Leaders of Industries at
Various Points Hopeful
of 1881 Gain.
BY CHARLES c. STONE
State Editor. The Times


State Editor. The Times
Slight employment gains in two
cities, statements expressing hope of
improved conditions in 1881 and a
continued slump in building in In
diana were revealed in a survey of
business and industry of the state
for the week ended today.
At Marion the Standard Glass
Company plant has resumed opera
tions with force of 100 persons
and prospects for steady work
described by Boucher Hughes, gen.
eral manager, as encouraging.
Fifty men will be added to the
force of the Griffith Com
pany, Muncie furniture manu-
facturer, as the result of its pur-
chase of the Palmen ManufacttIr-
ing Company, Okron, o.. which will
be moved and made a part of the
Muncie factory.
Muncie Plants Operate
John G. Wood, general manager
OF the Muncie plant of General Mo-
tors Corporation, announces that
operations are on a basis of 60 per
cent of normal, with the outlook en-
couraging for continued activity
throughout several months. With
operations at 85 per cent, Ray P.
Johnson, president of the Warner
Gear Company, is optimistic regard
ing the future. At the plant of the
Delco-Remy Corporation a thirty
hour work week is being used. Fifty
hours a week is normal.
The Guide Lamp factory, Ander-
son unit of General Motors, is OPP
Grating five days a week. F. c.
Kroeger, general manager Of the
Delco-Remy Corporation, which op-
crates on a large scale in Anderson,
expresses a belief that the business
depression has reached the lowest
point and gradual improvement
appears logical.
Better Business Reported
Pay rolls of $4,000 weekly are
being received by employees of G. G.
Conn, Ltd, Elkhart band instru-
ment manufacturer, and C. d.
Greenleaf, president, sees indica-
tions of improvement in that in
dustry The H. and A. Selmer
Company, musical instrument
manufacturer, reports that its
business for 1880 will exceed that
of last year by per cent. and ex-
poets an even larger volume in
1881. More business in the final
quarter of this year than last is
reported by the Excel Curtain Com
pany
A million-dollar addition to in
dustry at Brazil has been negotiated
the removal to the city of the
Continental Chemical Corporation
from Watseka, ILL., 1t has purchased
the former Stout furniture plant.
The corporation is engaged in the
manufacture Of floor finishes, clean
ing fluids and other chemical
products.
Recent orders for stone booked
by Hoosier companies include fifty
car loads from the Indiana Lime
stone Company, to be used in con-
struction of city hall at Kalama-
zoo, Mich, and for 65 COO feet from
Matthews Brothers as material for
a building on the campus of Yale
university. This will insure work
for Matthews employees for six
months.
Bridge Contract Awarded
On bid of S108,84O, a contr1 {
has been awarded I. E. Smith for
of bridge at Rich
mond.
Buying power in Hammond was
during the week by pay
ment of $4,000 in dividends by the
Home Building, Loan and Savings
Association and the Hammond
Building, Loan and Savings Associ-
ations.
OF eighteen cities covered in the
survey. only three showed increases
in building during November as
compared with the month last year.
They were Hammond, Michigan
City and Vincennes. The total for
the eighteen cities dropped from
81, ,733000 to S1,435,000.
Building contemplated includes a
S4,000000 addition to the plant Of
the Inland Steel Company at Indi-
ana Harbor, construction of which
may be started in the spring. At
TT. Wayne construction has started
of factory branch of the Goodyear
Tire and Rubber Company.
Albert Ludlunl, manager of the
Union Sanitary Manufacturing
Company at Noblesville, maker of
enamel ware. announced that its
factory will resume operations dur
ing the first week Of the new year
with sufficient number of orders
to keep it busy until spring. One
New York order viii require the
output Of the factory for two
months The plant has been work
ing less than half time for the past
year. Ludlum also says the pros
poets are encouraging for a full
summers work. Three hundred
men are employed at the factory
when it is operating normally.