Evening star., 1933-05-14
BUSINESS GATHERS
MORE MOMENTUM
Steel, Automotive and Allied
Industries Show I'M
provement.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Favorable business trends in yester-
days news included:
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio.-Mill sched-
ules showed steel ingot production. an
important section of the huge steel in
dustry, would rise per cent. to 81 per
cent Of capacity next week. Three blast
furnaces will be blown In soon.
NEW YORK-A commodity index
revealed prices Of IS staple commodi-
ties were sharply higher at 115.6-up
6 from a week ago, l6 from a month
ago and up - from the 1882 high.
Observation-Disclosures production
for the past week was said by Grams
automotive reports to have climbed to
51.67l units, 2s5 over the previous week
and the eighth consecutive week to
show an increased production. Hudson
Motors announced an increase Of pro-
duction to 1000 cars a week from 500,
the highest point in two years.
Rubber Consumption Rises.
AKRON, Ohio.-The upswing in the
motor industry was said by the Rubber
Manufacturers Association to have in
creased crude rubber consumption for
April by 45.3 per cent over March. The
amount used in April was 26,226 TONS
as against 18,047 in March and 81 1918
In April Of 1882.
GARY, Ind.-Steel operations were
shown in q survey to have jumped from
13 to 36 per cent Of capacity for the
week at Gary and South Chicago. The
increase was computed to mean a risS
Of $4,000 month in pay rolls.
Wheeling, w. Va.-The Wheeling
Steel Corporation announced its Ben
wood mill would resume 100 per cent
operation Monday after being idle since
January l, recalling 600 men. Coal
mines In the district were reported
planning to recall 1000 workers next
week.
Northampton. Mass-College Weav-
ers. Inc, announced expansion Of pro-
duction giving work to 100 persons be-
cause of piling up orders.
Lowell, Mass.-The Massachusetts
Mohair Plush Co. announced employ
ment Of $50 operatives on a day and
night basis to meet "a tremendous de-
mand for mohair yarn
Edwardville, Ill.-The Elder Manu-
featuring Co. announced the capacity Of
its plant, now employing lis workers,
would be increased about 40 per cent.
New machinery has been installed. The
firm makes work shirts.
Wage Increases Given.
Lowell, Mass-The Leather Work
ers' Union announced more than $50
workers of the American Hide g. Leather
Co. would be given 10 per cent wage
increases effective Monday. The in
crease will be partial restoration Of
reductions
Fort Worth, Tex-Swift and Armour
packing plants announced their pay
rolls had been increased 10 per cent in
number Of employees recently.
Montgomery. Ala.-The Alabama
Packing Co.'S plant announced wages of
$50 employees would be increased per
cent.
BosToN-Increases Of four.tenths of
per cent In the number Of wage earn
ers employed in April in manufacture
in Massachusetts, and 2.3 per cent in
the total amount Of weekly pay roofs over
March were reported today by the State
Department of Labor and Industries.
The figures were based on reports from
l,109 representative manufacturing
establishments.
ROCHESTER, N Y-An order from
the Jacob Rupert Brewing Co. of New
York for glass-lined tanks totaling
$500,00 was announced today by the
Pfaudler Co., one Of the largest orders
received by the firm in the past 20 years.
1t may necessitate putting on an extra
shit OF workers, company officials said
Recent increases in orders has put
practically the normal force back to
work.
Wages to Be Increased.
BROCKTON. Mass.-The Field Shoe
Co. announced to its So employees tonight
that beginning Monday wages of all
workers would be increased 10 per cent.
The company has never renduced wages
and the new rate will place salaries paid
by them 10 per cent above the scale
paid to workers making fourth-grade
shoes.
LYNCHBURG, Va-After adding so
employees during the last three weeks,
the N. & w. Overall Co., made known
this afternoon that it is taking on so
more at once. Lawson w. Turner presi-
dent, said the company's plant in Jack
son, Miss. is also expanding. It has
force Of about $50 operatives and Is
adding Others
SAN ANTONIO, Tex-Ninety-five
men have been put to work in Missouri
Pactf1c's locomotive repair shops here
since the resumption of work May 5, A.
F. Judd, assistant division superintend-
ent, said today. The shops had been
virtually closed for a year. Increase
In traffic, making more repairs neces-
sary on locomotives, was the occasion
for reopening the shops. Judd said.
There have been 1000 carloads Of cat
tie hauled out Of this territory to grass
in Oklahoma and Kansas this Spring.