The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-08-05

for more wages and shorter work in ghours. A. J. Hcpkeiman was chosen president and Joseph Nardi, secretafy. Plans have been made for another meeting next Friday at which time all women employees will be invited to bc present.
 c. 1T. Graing, r, vice president. of the company, hat q notice posted today in all departments of the factory explaining the dimcultics of the clock industry in the United states adopting a blanket code: He explained about the seasonal ch2r- acter of the trade.
 President Sheldon's statement today reads as follows:
 The Ingersoi- Waterbury Comp any in compliance with tho prcBi- dents request tp increase employ. ment and wageb, have announced that effective Monday, August Tth, the pay of all piece and day work CTS in both companies. will again be increased by 10 per cent. over two thousand employees are to ben, fit thereby. This is the second raise of pay announced by these companies since the Recovery pro- gram was started.
 President James IL. Sheldon in the course of his conversation saia 1t had been the policy of the com. pany to follow out President Rooseyalt's wishes as far as posai- bIc. From Il yearly, low of l,20D employees in April 'on q phrt-time basis, the company at the present time has on its payroll in excess or 2,200 employees, an increase Of over 1 xunrLtnH fIIll lime. resulting in q payroll increase or some 250 per cent.
 He further states that the Clock Manufaituring Association or America, of which The Ingcrholl- Waterbury Company Is a member, yesterday completed tho first draft of it's code of fair competition Tor submission to the presidents com mittce. This code will be present cd to all the members of the in- dustry on Monday next, and 1t ih expected that shortly Ingcrsoll- Waterbury Company and the other members of the Clock Manufatcur- CTS Association will operate thcre- under. The clock and watch busi- ness is highly specialized and MT Sheldon said that to work under the present blanket code would De f. positive hardship and 1t would result in the laying off of opera tiyes if some of the highly skilled em ployes in key positions were lim- tied in hours. The members of the Clock Manufacturers Association have agreed that they will operate under their code after September 1st, should its approval not be ob- tained by that date, and VIII con- tinus to do so while negotiations are pending.
 The large volume of orders that the company has on It's books at the present time Is the direct re- suit of n selling policy which was initiated the first of this year, where dealers are given greater as- sistance than they have ever had In the past. While these orders were taken nt low prices. the officials of the company state that they will do their best to fill ordegs fin hand without increasing prices for the future. AS costs may require. Perhaps the outstanding achieve. ment hhh been tho intr0dhction Of the Mickey Mouse Ingersoi watches and clocks. The sale of these has gone far beyond tho expectations of the officials, and has added much to the prestige of the Inger- soil trade name. From present in- dichtions the Mickey Mouse Inger- soil should Do the outstanding sales hit of the year, and its contin- uance in popularity will mean thousands Of dollars to the cfn- ploycs of the company and in. creased prosperity to the city Of Waterbury.
 yice-President Granger's mo- | tice:
 To the EmpIoycs oE Waterbury Clock Company ana InEcr" sOii. Waterbury Company. Tn an endeRyor to effectuate the policy of the national industrial | recovery act and to show our de- sire 10 cooperate with the presi- dent in reference to increasing employment and purchasing pow CT. the Waterbury Clock company and the Ingersoli- Waterbury Co. will. as sooR ps the president ap- proves thereof, operate its plant, branches and offices under the code of fair competition, which has been formulated by the Clock Manufacturers Association of America and which will shortly be submitted to Washington. | This company. and ths other companies belonging to the Clock Manufacturers Association of America. have since the beginning of the present depression. result I ing in the great reduction Of working hours available in the in- dustry, made every effort to dis- tribute and to remarkable de- egty owners felt that they were | ificonvsDienced by the new ordi. nnnce but giDce then appeals have been few and far between with the | IffaglioAfi fine fiPai fa hA alAA la af =