The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-09
BACK To WORK
MOVEMENT IN
INDIANA NOTED
Evansville Cigar Factories
viii Soon Have 1000
Persons on Pay Rolls.
$50 RETURN TO JOBS
LoganSport Company Re-
sumes Operations; R. R.
Shops Add to Forces.
BY CHARLES G. STONE
state Editor. The Times


state Editor. The Times
Improvement in employment con-
0itions in Indiana is the outstand-
ing feature of a business and in
dustrial survey completed today,
covering the first full week in 1881.
Evansville led in putting workers
back on the Job. During the week
three cigar factories resumed oper-
atoms. Others will do the same
within ten days, bringing to 1000
the total of persons given employ
ment.
With more than 500 persons guar
anteed minimum of forty hours
employment weekly, the Evansville
Packing Company reports some of
its departments on twenty -four
hour day schedule.
The Logansport Radiator Equip
ment Manufacturing Company
called back $50 former employees
during the week.
Railroads Provide Work
At Washington, sixty-six were
called to the shops of the Baltimore
81 Ohio railroad There are now
700 employed in the shops.
Fortyeight men have been called
back to their jobs in the New York
Central railroad shops at Elkhart.
The force now numbers about 300.
Two plants of the Warner Gear
Company at Muncie have reopened
after being closed for inventory.
Part time operations have been
resumed at the Greenwood plant of
Noblitt-Sparks Industries, Inc. Only
former employees were hired
The Monticello Manufacturing
Company plant at ElWood is operat-
ing steadily with several large orders
on hand, including one for 600 dis
play racks from the G.. I. Sellers &
Sons Co., and one for 5000 baskets
from Armour g. Co.
Work of erecting 100000 gallon
water tank for the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad at Vincennes will be
started soon.
Stone Inquiries Numerous
President A. E. Dickinson of the
Indiana Limestone Company, an
nomcing the booking of several
orders, says that in the last thirty
days more calls for estimates have
been received than during any
similar period in the last two years.
Orders on hand are for stone for
the Kansas City Power and Light
Company building; Higbee depart
ment store, Cleveland, o.; City hall
and offices, Kalamazoo, Mich, and
the Mellon institute, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Indiana furniture manufacturers
are represented strongly at the an
nual January shows now in progress
at Chicago and Grand Rapids.
Keen interest Is being displayed III
the shows by manufacturers. as
orders booked during the displays
will be indicative of the trend of
the business for the year
Work is to be started at once on
erection of a $3.50, 900 addition to the
building of the Lincoln National
Life Insurance Company at 1T.
Wayne. Indiana limestone will be
used, and only FIT. Wayne labor en-
ployed.
A new mill of the Bedford Cut
Stone Company is in process of
erection, with completion set for
March Is.
S5,000,OOO to Be Spent
In the Calumet district the most
important event of the week was the
announcement that Inland Steel
Company at Indiana Harbor will
carry out 100000 improvement
program, with start of work set fol-
midsummer. The Lever Bros. SOAP
plant at Robertsdale is on a full
production basis. At Hammond il
is announced the Union Meta
Products Company has received an
order for $500 steel ends for gon-
dola cars from the Pennsylvania
railroad.
The Tegge-Jackman cigar fac
tory has been moved from Brazil tc
Frankfort, causing 191 persons tc
lose employment.
Ulen & Co., Lebanon, interna-
tional and financing firm, has en-
tered the southern California field
with formation of Ulen Securities
Company Ltd, at Los Angeles. Fred
= It. Holt, vice-president of the par
ent company, will head the new
unit.
Winchester Plant Closes
Five hundred persons have been
thrown out of employment at Win
chester through closing of the
woodbury. division Of the Turner
Glass Corporation. The division is
in receivership.
A record of being idle only two
weeks during 1880 was established
oy the David r. Webb Company
veneer factory operator, at Edin-
burg.
The Miller Show Case Company
plant is being moved from TT
Wayne to Decatur.
Before the end of the present
month the Overhead Door Corpo-
ration at Hartford City will occupy
an addition to its plant, increasing
floor space $4,000 square feet.
The American Can Company. new
Terre Haute industry, has made
Its first shipment Of 10000 cans.