Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1909 — LAY OFF 5.000 OPERATIVES [ARTICLE]

LAY OFF 5.000 OPERATIVES

Rubber Company's Hands to Have an Enforced Vacation. Boston, Jan. 22.—About 5,000 opega* tires employed in the factories of tee United States Rubber company, and. by one or two smaller concerns, Will be idle during the greater part of February. On Jan. 27 the Woonsocket Rubber company's boot mill at Millville, the Boston Rubber Shoe company’s Cactories in Malden and Melrose, the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe compan’s boot and shoe shops and the Goodyear India Rubber Glove company’s boot and shoe shops and the tn Naugatuck, Conn., will be shut down for four weeks. The curtailment is due, it is said, to an accumulation of unsold stock.