McLaughlin Glass Company, Los Angeles, CA

LOS ANGELES, CALIF.

By J. M. Price

By the time you read this you may or may not have had turkey for Thanksgiving and here is old Santa Claus right after our bank roll. Since my last letter things have picked up a little. The Crystalite is working steady. The Technical is operating again with four shops and a machine making knobs. Things are about the same at the McLaughlin plant. The Brock Company at Santa Ana has cut the force to one shop at the No. 1 plant but has increased the force at No. 2 plant by adding a shop. Mould makers at the different machine bottle factories are working steady with the exception of the Long Beach factory.

Speaking of mould makers some of you old timers recall Frank Gordon. Just like to inform you that he is as spry as ever and going along fine and there is Louie Boettcher who they coaxed away from Milwaukee a number of years ago and took him in the wilds of Washington. Louie likes the country out here but he sure misses what made Milwaukee famous. Charlie Ryan is still over in Santa Ana, boss of the shop. Bert Rutter has been working there too. Over at the Maywood Company Perry Thrasher, L. Zimmer, and John Elmore are working. Jimmie Moorse has charge of the shop. Harry Meyers is pounding the iron at the McLaughlin plant. Down at the Latchford plant Frank Simpkins has charge of the shop where Cree Daly, the Bates Brothers, Harry Hugg, Fred Senn, H Vogle, C. Miller and Rex Aldrige produce what ever the company needs. Maybe some of you old punch tumbler blowers would like to know that Joker McKenzie is located here and doing good but not as a glass worker There are quite a few old timers scattered around out here that I would like to get in touch with and tell their friends about them.

News is very scarce this time. The most of us are not trying to make two blades of grass grow where only one did but we sure are figuring how far we can make a quarter go. There is not much more of 1931 left but it is one year that a whole lot of us are going to remember for a long while and it is going to take an awful lot of prosperity to make us forget it. I only hope that in 1932 we can all look back at 1931 with a smile and laugh when we say she was a tough year but we weathered the storm.