Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1903 — Plant May Leave Hammond. [ARTICLE]

Plant May Leave Hammond.

Hammond, Ind., July 27.—There is a good deal of uneasiness among business men here over reports that the piinting plant of the W. B. Conkey Company, employing 1,200 men, will be moved to Holland, Mich, It oovers six acres of ground and is operated by a corporation with $2,000,000 capital. The plant has been the soenes of numerous strike aud labor difficulties. It is said that Mr. Conkey has obtained a site atjHolland and unless decisive measures are taken to quiet the labor troubles, the industry will go to the Michigan town, “If Holland wants it, she oan have it,” said Mr. Conkey, when asked if the plant was to be moved away from here. “We have folly decided since the labor troubles began not to make contemplated improvements in the plant here and the required facilities will be provided for in our new institution, which I would like to see located at Holland.”