Carr Manufacturing Corp Produces Rubber Thread For Golf Balls
The article details Carr Manufacturing Corp and Carr Fulflex Inc as a joint operation producing rubber thread for golf balls and other goods. It covers plant growth since 1932, employment around Bristol, production processes from rubber sheets to thread, extrusion, vulcanization, and quality control, plus annual sales nearing two million pounds and distribution across New England, the South, and parts of Europe.
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Carr Manufacturing Corp
Carr Fulflex Inc
Christian Relat ions And Profit Sharing By Lindsley Wellman
In 1931 US Rubber Co moved its Bristol rubber shoe division prompting manager Maurice C. Smith Jr to resign and start a small two employee venture. It grew into a major Bristol firm with a Christian Relations department funding benevolent projects and a non profit Benefit Shoe Foundation aiding amputees and polio victims. The firm produced sneakers boots and waterproof footwear and contributed to war efforts in WWII and Korea. The Dixon Corporation, founded in 1876 by Ezra Dixon Sr, pivoted to plastics with new bearings plastics like Rulon and teflon boosting growth. The firm maintains a non union workforce with paid birthdays and holidays and eyes expansion as orders rise.
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Lindsley Wellman
US Rubber Company
Maurice C. Smith, Jr
Bristol
US Rubber
Smith
Bristol Manufacturing Company
Department of Christian Relations
Dale D. Dutton
Kentucky
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Benefit Shoe Foundation
Dixon Corporation
Ezra Dixon
Dixon
Dixon Lubricating Saddle Co
Providence
Burnside Street
Rulon
Robert Rulon Miller
Miller
Labor harmony in Bristol as unions grow
Bristol's top labor leader Michael Tamburro of the United Rubber Workers of America notes unions bring strength with limited strikes. Since 1941 Bristol has seen only two strikes both at United States Rubber Co, each nationwide in scope rather than local. Union presence, slow to grow, has yielded a high level of labor management relations and peaceful resolutions.
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Bristol
Michael Tamburro
United Rubber Workers of America
Rhode Island Industrial Unions Council
United States Rubber Co
Tamburro
Bristol Manufacturing Co
U.S. Rubber
Carr Manufacturing Co
United Rubber Workers
Labor peace in Bristol marked by unions and cooperation
In Bristol, Collins and Aikman Co. and four plants host the majority of organized workers with unions gaining prestige over time. Negotiations favor the pay ability basis, yielding smaller raises at independent plants while U S Rubber sees stronger deals. Relations between labor and management are cordial, with no major picket trouble during the 1950s strike era. a 1920 incident at National India Rubber Co. led to martial law and militia presence for 12 days.
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Bill Archer
Collins and Aikman Co
Textile Workers of America, Cio
Bristol
Tamburro
Bristol Manufacturing Co
Carr Manufacturing
National
U. S. Rubber Co
U. S
Prayer Won the Day for Dahl Co in Eight Years
The George W. Dahl Co. Inc. grew from a laundry room to a high street plant from 1947 to 1950, employing 19 at present with $100000 assets and $250000 revenue last year. Dahl won a crucial Dupont bid by designing a test valve in six hours, launching contracts with major oil firms, aviation firms, and Atomic Energy Commission plants. He funds profit sharing and charitable gifts, plans a 68000 sq ft one story factory, and bought back most stock after a 1951 sale to finance the new plant.
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George W. Dahl
High Street
Dahl
Dupont Co
Dupont
Delaware
Bristol
Atomic Energy Commission
United States
Canada
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Ceylon
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London
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Amazon River
New England
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National India Rubber Co
William B. Watts
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