The Washington times., 1933-05-09
SURVEY SHOWS
. j. 8. FACING.
FORWARD
Jump in Farm Prices Cheers
Middle West; Rubber,
t. Steel Improving

Continued business improve
ment was indicated today in fur
ther reports throughout the ma
ton of salary increases, reSump-
ton of work in industrial plants
and new purchasing power in the
farm belt.
A survey conducted by Inter
national News Service reported
other industrial leaders express
ing agreement with Henry Ford,
automobile manufacturer, that
the nation was facing forward"
at last.
Ingot production at Youngs-
town, Ohio, was recorded at So
per cent of capacity, steel pro-
duction at 40 per cent of capacity
in Cleveland, and Akron's major
rubber plants working full blast.
To Open Furnaces
The Steelton plant of the Beth
lehem Steel Company announced
it would resume operation OF
three open hearth furnaces about
May Is after an idlenesS in the
OVCC4eCct0Ul11S OCReb4 SAAASS
last August.
The Norwalk Tire and Rubber
Company announced a pay in
crease for workers in the form OF
q S per cent weekly bonus.
Greater activities were forecast
at the mines of West Virginia
and Ohio, with stocks Of soft
coal declining during the first
quarter of the year.
The straight five per cent in
crease in wages announced by
the. E. L. Cord Corporation was
scheduled to go into effect tomor
row. affecting 10000 workers in
Is States.
In Pittsburgh, the employees of
George E. Rogers and Co., flour
and feed brokers, were granted a
10 per cent wage increase.
Throughout the agricultural
Middle West, scores of farm
leaders reported increased optim-
ism, principally as the result of
the increase in farm prices. A
gain in employment during the
past 80 days was reported in
Iowa. The Improve your home"
drive in Des Moines went over
with extremely successful results.
A 5 per cent wage increase
went into effect at the plant of
the BerkoWitz Shirt Company in
Uniontown, Pa, less than two
weeks after a 10 per cent wage
reduction order was cancelled.
900 Miners On Job
Mining activities in the Avella
district collieries at Burgettstown,
Pa, were resumed with 900 coal
miners back on the job.
An increase in business in the
st. Louis wholesale district was
reported in the last 80 days.
Wage increases of 10 per cent
were recorded in 20 mills of the
Carolina Piedmont section affect
ing 5000 workers.
Higher prices for tobacco and
milk as the result of the farm
relief bill were forecast by Prof.
Allen Manchester, of Connecticut
State College.
A $419,OOO,O00 jump in the
value of wheat, corn and oats
held by farmers was reported by
George E. Booth, president Of the
National Grain and Feed Dealers
Association.
Livestock Prices Up
Hogs, lambs and livestock re-
corded spectacular advances in
prices during a recent period.
Hogs, at $4.10, stood within
five cents of the highest point
since September 26.
Lambs reached a top of $7.15,
the highest mark since the mid
die of March.
The Milwaukee Railroad re-
ported car loadings for the week
ended -ay 2 totaled 23,098 cars,
compared with 21,301 cars in the
same period last year.
In the Wall Street financial
district, 5000 to 1000 workers
have gotten their jobs back.
GREENVILLE, S. c., May 9
.ON.SO .-Prosperity-or at least,
some of its close relatives-peeked
around that corner today at the
hard-hit employees of South Caro-
lima textile mills. Wage increases
of 10 per cent were recorded in 20
mills of the Piedmont section, af-
fecting 5000 workers, and a num-
Der Of the mills employed addi-
tional forces. Salary increases,
the amount of which has not been
determined, will be given en-
ployes of the five Victor Mono
CHAN mills within a week, officials