Morris Brothers Shoe Plant Expands in Quincy
With peace returning troops home and labor easing, Morris Brothers plans a new workshop at 210 Maine Street opening March 1. The firm expands from 60,000 to 80,000 square feet, adding about 150 workers to produce work shoes while the main plant shifts to dress shoes. payroll grows from 225,000 to around 300,000 yearly. The company now employs 300 to 400, about one third women, and currently makes 2,000 pairs daily. In 1918 the Quincy shoe trade was worth 1.5 million dollars to the city. Morris notes heavy labor demand but expects relief and continued growth.
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France
Quincy
Morris Bros Snoe Manufacturing Company
Maine Street
Second
Vermont Streets
Morris Brothers
F. E. Morris
Mr. Morris
Women Organizing To Keep War Positions
Lady Rhondda, president of the Women’s Industrial League, states in a letter that the league will organize industrial women workers of all classes to speak with one voice on common concerns in women’s employment. District committees form in industrial centers to pick members for the Central Executive Council. She calls Lloyd George’s pledge a new charter of women’s industrial rights and says it opens a future for women to fill well paid roles and reach top positions.
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London
Lady Rhondda
Women’s Industrial League
New League
Central Executive Council
Lloyd George
Quincy Monroes New Dye Plant In Reconstruction Era
Quincy plans a four story dye plant fronting Third Street behind the current Monroe Drug Co. lot to produce one tenth of US direct dyes. The 200,000 square foot plant will ship and compound colors and basic materials while expanding national influence in the postwar era.
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Quincy
Monroe Drug Company
Monroe Drug Co
Oak and
Vince Streets
Third Street
Burlington Railroad
Quincey
Fourth
Oak Streets
Monroe Company
Uw United States
Botton Road
Locust Street
Kansas
Milady
Gardener Park
America
Neal Monroe
France
United States
E. N. Monroe
Neal E. Monroe
S. H. Jackson
L. P. Bonfoey
R. W. Jackson
Afr
Jackson
Belgium
England
Britain
Germany
Quincy Company
Bottom Road
Vacuum Cleaners To Take Part In Reconstruction
The Aer Sweep Company in Quincy with a factory at Ohio Street produces vacuum sweepers and wooden specialties. Five salesmen head to Melbourne as Quincy factories gain wartime prominence. The payroll supports a south side workforce including many women and girls aiding in the war period.
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Quincy
Melbourne
Australia
South Sea
Aer-Sweep Company
Aer-Sweep Company Expands During Reconstruction
The Aer-Sweep company reports over 40 women and men employed in its shops with plans to enlarge the business and create more jobs. Twenty salesmen operate in the west and middle west, spreading the company’s manufactured goods. The current factory capacity is taxed by demand, and a larger development is planned as a key progressive move in Quincy during the reconstruction period.
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Nish
West
Middle West
Aer-Sweep Company
Quincy
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Dominion
Quiner
Fourteenth
Ophie Streets
Roscoe Townsend
Aer-Sweep
Ohio Street
Quincy Photo Engraving Co
6Th & Vermont Sts
Quincy, Il
Walker’s
Walkers
IRN
ATG
Dway
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