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Show U . S. Industry Sees Marked IS'iptere REPORTS IF PAI RUSES POURING IN Improvements Noted As Production Speeds Up NEW YORK, May 10 (U.R) The response to President Roosevelt's appeal for industrial indus-trial pay increases was reported re-ported today in United Press dispatches from widely separated separ-ated cities, which told of rises of from 5 to 1 per ceni. Supplementing yesterday's reports re-ports of more pay for fill, 000 men m 2a stales, such industrial centers as Cleveland, Detroit, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and Lowell, Mass., sent news of higher wages in automotive, auto-motive, banking, ice cream manufacturing, manu-facturing, dress manufacturing, silk mill and chain cafeteria lines. Optimistic Reports Optimistic reports of other sorts, based on expectation of stimulated, prices and generally improving conditions, were plentiful. A Binghampton, N. Y., shoe manufacturing company assured 14,000 employes of full time work for the better part of the summer. Production of electric power in the week ended May 6 showed an increase for the first time in 151 weeks. Iron Age reported iron and steel buying as coming back from "an ever-widening circle" of consumers. consum-ers. A Cleveland dispatch said, that ; for the first time in two years sieel production in that area had passed the half-way mark, rising to 54 per cent of capacity. The largest monthly Increase in factory employment in New York state since 1914 was reported by the state industrial commissioner. A Michigan steel company, with a new hign mark payroll totalling $4,000, announced It would hire 300 more men to carry out a $250,000 replacement and construction program. |