Hemingray reports business as average

GLASS PLANT IS

NEAR AVERAGE

Furnaces Are Started by the

Hemingray Company.

Reports from several Muncie fac­tories, show that the employment situation in Muncie, while at its customary low standard of the year, is gradually being improved.

The Hemingray Glass Company, which employs, on a yearly average 375 men, said Tuesday that it ex­pects to be at its normal employ­ment in two weeks.

Hemingray’s went to a low produc­tion point on November 16 and many men were laid off at that time. However the plant has had enough work on hand to remain in operation and Monday another furnace began work. The latter part of the week will see still an­other one started.

Officers of the company told The Press, Tuesday, that a third furnace will be started by next week and that within two weeks the normal employment of 375 men will be reached. They said the company at no time this fall or winter has ex­perienced an abnormal recession of operations. Work at the glass plant has been on an average with other years.