Owens-Illinois Glass Company - Muncie, Indiana, Plant

INCREASE PAYROLL

AT OWENS-ILLINOIS

Employ 240 New Men As

Furnace is Fired.

Approximately 240 additional workers will be given employment at the Owens-Illinois Company in this city because of the increasing demand for the firm's products, especially the new glass building block, it was announced yesterday.

Glass Block Demand Up.

Fires already have been kindled under the second of two large glass furnaces at the company's plant on Macedonia avenue. This is the first time since 1932 both furnaces have been in operation at the same time, plant officials said.

A number of new workers already have been employed and others will be added gradually to pay rolls. Plant employment will total about 700 persons when the 240 new workers are added.

Increases in business were attributed to the greater demand for glass building blocks, which the company has been manufacturing locally since April, 1935. Three-fourths of the output of the two furnaces is used for the blocks; one-fourth for glass insulators.

"Our glass blocks have been used for every conceivable type of building construction in the last year and a half - for farm buildings, in the sky scrapers in New York metropolitan area, in residences, and in factories," a plant official said.