Owens Illinois urges Muncie citizens to vote wet

LOCAL FACTORY

ASKS CITIZENS

TO VOTE WET

Promises Employment From

Higher Production.

Through presentation of the tre­mendous increase in production and employment in Muncie and Indiana as a result of the legalization of 3.2 per cent beer, the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, which recently pur­chased the Hemingray Glass Com­pany here, today appealed to the voters of the city and state to vote wet next Tuesday.

A still greater flow of prosperity will come through the glass indus­tries, if repeal becomes effective, the company states.

"Thousands of families in Indi­ana already have felt the direct benefits of reviving prosperity, through the stimulated activity of glass plants, brought about by the return of beer," officials of the com­pany point out. "Glass workers are enthusiastic for the immediate re­peal of the entire prohibition amendment so that employment and payrolls will hold their gains and show further increases when the seasonal beer-bottle demand drops off.

"A survey of the principal glass centers in the state shows that the legalzation [sic] legalization of 3.2 per cent beer, not only has brought many factories making beer bottles and table glass­ware back into full production, but has equally stimulated the activi­ties of other Indiana glass factories, making other types of glass con­tainers.

Other Industries Aided.

"The latter are said to have benefitted by the immediate im­provement in general business con­ditions, resulting from increased activity in beer-producing and beer-bottle producing centers, and also from the fact that contingent in­dustries supplying the needs of breweries and glass plants have shared in the new flow of pros­perity.

Ball Brothers’ Company plant at Muncie, which has previously had a fluctuating payroll because of the seasonal demand for fruit jars, has now augmented its production with beer bottles and is a center of greatly increased steady employ­ment, through this rounding out of demand for its product throughout the year.

The Hemingray Glass Company plant at Muncie, recently acquired by the Owens-Illinois Glass Com­pany, has sprung into full capacity production, largely on beer bottles. The plant was closed down before the beer bottle orders became avail­able. Officials of the plant expect to continue operation on a high schedule of employment right through the year with the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment bringing further demand for other types of glass containers

In Dunkirk, an official of the Indiana Glass Company of that city states that with the return of 3.2 beer the plant immediately leaped from a part-time, low em­ployment basis to a full-time day and night production schedule to meet the great influx of orders for glass tumblers. Hundreds of employes have been added to the pay­roll and with repeal of the Eight­eenth Amendment, the present production status will in all proba­bility be maintained and increased by orders for other types of glass­ware.

Dunkirk Plant Booms.

The Hart Glass Company, also at Dunkirk, has made a record-break­ing increase in its payroll since beer came in. The plant is running to capacity to keep up with the flow of orders and the repeal of prohi­bition is expected to maintain these conditions when seasonal demand for beer equipment falls off.

"Similar increases have been ex­perienced at the Fairmount Glass Works at Indianapolis, the Foster-Forbes Glass Company at Marion, the Standard Glass Company at Marion and the Owens-Illinois plants at Gas City and Terre Haute.

"The suppliers of the glass plants such as sand companies, coal companies, lumber dealers, fitting manufacturers, box makers, foundries and dozens of other types of industrial organizations are getting increased orders. Box factories at Evansville, Terre Haute and Anderson are working night and day to fill orders."