Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1918 — STUDEBAKERS TO INCREASE FORCE [ARTICLE]

STUDEBAKERS TO INCREASE FORCE

7,000 MEN TO BE ADDED TO THE “PAYROLL AT ONCE AND MORE LATER. Seven thousand employes will be added to the present force of the Studebaker corporation an South Bend by the summer of 1920, according to information give nout by A. R. Erskine, president of the concern, By the completion of additions now under construction the plant will have a capacity of 100,000 motor cars a year, doubling the present output The new buildings were begun in 1916 and considerable progress was made possible during the governmental restrictions on construction work by the company’s war orders. , “The demand for 7,000 additional mnployes'wili increase the population of South Bend between 15,000 and 20,000 people,” Mr. Erskine said-