Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-07
10000 GET Jobs
ASFACTORIESOPEN
Orders for Rails, Cars, Autos,
Steamships and Many
Products Placed.
BY the associated Press.


Americas new year contribution to en-
ployment.
Orders for rails, for rail cars, for To-
comotives, for automobiles, for steam
ships, for corn products, for hardware
explosives, plumbing and window glass,
as well as dwindly stocks of once over
produced textiles, are demanding the
LAYING on of erstwnile idle hands.
Advices from industrial sections, TAX
ing no account of construction, revealed
n some cases enough factory re-em-
uioyment to alleviate materially local
conditions. Added was the indication
Of numerous plants about to start or re-
start in which no estimate was made
of the number of men expected to be
employed.
-Four Steamships Ordered.
An order for four steamships from
the Panama Mail Co. assured two years
OF work for 5000 men at Kearny. N. ].
The automobile plants in the Detroit
area recalled %, 900 men after inventory.
and the Chevrolet Co. there only
recently employed 1,500 additonal
workers. :,
clash of hammer and tongs in rail-
-
OF 1880 idle returned TO nreadWln-
ming.
pressed from the auto industry, recalled
1000 workers at the, end Of December
and varied Cleveland industries rein
stated I,347 on pay rolls in the past 10
DAYS. The Fisher Body Co. there ex-
peoted to add 500 men within week.
The National Acme Co. recalled $50.
Rail mills of the Tennessee Coal, IRON
q Railway Co. at Birmingham, Ala.
are expected to be opened January AZ
with $500 employed, directly or mol
The Sanitary Manufacturing Co:
said rush orders for 300 carloads OF
enamel work enabled it to ADD 2,OOO
men to its plants In ouisy1lleu Baltl-
more and Pittsburgh.
1850 Auto Men Re-employed.
Ford and Chevrolet plants at Atlanta
re-empioyed 1850 between thenn,. ana
the Ford plant at st. Paul, MINI, sx-
pected to have ]. 400 men drawing pay
at the height Of the coming assembly
a newIy-opened mill of the Seaboard
Paper Co. at Bucksport, Me- provided
work for 25O, and the Corn PRODUCTS
Refining Co. at Kansas City employed
400 additional men.
The Kari-Keen auto truck plant at
Sioux City, Iowa, resumed with zoo
f51en. the WHY'S Morrow Co. auto parts
nlaI1t az Eimira, N. Y, broke several
months OF idlenesS with the employment
of $50 men. and announced 1T expected
90 add more.
Rush order for $1,000 tons Of steel
and 1900 gondola cars wiz keep 300
ksaNer Nf nfFlf1l
May /. Another 500 there viii 60 back
TO work the middle Of this month for
the Arnold plant Of the American Win
. The Richmond Radiator Co., at Union
town. Pa. Just added $50 men to its
nav roll and resumption of work in the
Alicia No. plant Of the Monessen Coke
Co. at Brownsville, Pa, provided Jobs
work for $50 men was assured when
a Morgantown. w. Va, hrm purchased
the Gilbert Davis mine tipple and $50
acres of coal for immediate operation.
wierton Steel Corporation opened Q
new $4,000, 900 plant ct Wheeling, w. Va,
December 20 with $50 men on the pay
roll. Bethlehem Steel Corporation added
400 at Baltimore.
Steel Company Buying Machinery.
The Inland Steel Co. announced 1t
was negotiating for 100000 worth Of
machinery to equip q projected steel
plate mill at Indiana Harbor, Ind, and
steel makers in the youngstown, Ohio,
district said the month should bring
Substantial gains In their operations.
One Thousand employees have been
recalled to work by the Joseph N. Feiss
o., clothing manufacturers, at Cleve-
land, officials announced today.
The Feiss Co. plans 20 add 200 more
workers this month, Which would bring
its total within 200 Of the 1929 peak.
A survey by Cleveland Chamber of
Commerce officials showed SO concerns
in that city definitely plan to increase
the number Of their employees during
the present month.
Plant additions were planned by the
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. at Henry
eta, Okla, and cottonseed oil mills in
Oklahoma showed an employment in
crease Of 80 per cent in last months
reports.
An order for 20 new locomotives for
the New York Central Railroad assured
an increase of employment in the
Schenectady plant Of the American Lo-
connective Co, and reports from Seattle,
Wash, indicated q dozen new plants Of
varied industries about to start oper-
alton.
The Boeing airplane factory there
has Government contract for ITO
planes to be filed in the early part Of
the year.
Textile Mills to Speed Up.
Increased operation was reported by
the Crown Manufacturing Co. cotton
mills at Dalton, Ca, and by Cluett,
Peabody 81 Co.. with shirt mills rum
alaHw ~ - - =
Bremen, Ga. Textile mills throughout
Alabama announced they expected to
reach capacity production some time
during January and all Of them were
recalling. their forces.
More than 1000 skilled mechanics
returned to work at the shops of the
Central Railroad of New Jersey OF
Elizabethport after shutdown Of sew
eral weeks. In Newark about / 500 men
went TO work on a city railway project
In which steam shoyelS are being re-
create more jobs.
The r. c. A.-victor Co.'S plant al
Camden, N. j., resumed operations
affecting about 1000 workers after a
months suspension.
y. zoo in Roanoke to Get Jobs.
ROANOKE, Va, January 0R.-
Seven hundred Norfolk & Western Rail
: way Co. maintenance of the way work,
ers, who were laid on December 10
viii return to work Monday. the com.
pany announced today. The number
makes total Of $500 men returning
to work for the road since January S.
400 Return 70 Railroads.
FORT SMITH, Ark, January 7 (R.-
Four hundred employees Of railroads II
the Fort Smith vicinity were bach
ut work today.
The Frisco Railroad recalled aOI
trackmen on divisions operated out o
here, while q number Of men wer,
put back to WORK in the Van Burel